Hints and tips:
...Ashley tried to sell his Premier League team last year to a consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund but the transaction collapsed....
...The former Ajax midfielder and one of the world’s most talented young players tells Simon Kuper about his first season in Spain and what makes Lionel Messi special....
...In the second half, England increasingly played possession football and found Kieran Trippier and Ashley Young on the wings....
...It allows more margin for error when defending and, when England have the ball, the three spread out and full-backs Trippier and Ashley Young push forward....
...Simon Kuper is writing a daily column throughout the World Cup...
...Mr Kuper makes the point that the England team have succeeded with set pieces through diagonal passing and using the wings....
...For players such as Ashley Williams and Hal Robson-Kanu, this was the month of their careers, the story they will tell their grandchildren....
...Sturridge floated in a cross from the left, and amid a melee of players, Welsh captain Ashley Williams wretchedly headed the ball straight to Vardy, who from point-blank range netted his fourth goal in his...
...Simon Kuper is an FT Weekend Magazine columnist. Mike Forde is a talent management consultant. Photographs: AFP; Getty...
...simon.kuper@ft.com...
...Right, Ashley, we’re changing venues!” Astonishingly, Cole also reprints his wedding speech in full....
...Ashley Cole, whose book contains his wedding speech, gets the severest treatment. It is, says Kuper, one of the two worst books he has ever read. Lampard’s memoir fares only a bit better....
...Simon Kuper is co-author of Why England Lose: And Other Curious Football Phenomena Explained (HarperSport, £7.99)...
...It revealed itself for about 15 minutes before and 15 minutes after half-time, and it mostly featured Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard, Ashley Cole and James Milner....
...Ashley Cole at full-back is hardly an English Maicon. There were two almost identical attacking midfielders in Gerrard and Lampard, who have spent years getting in each other’s way....
...Why is Mike Ashley determined to sell Newcastle? Harris says: “Let’s face it, when you’ve made a lot of money, you want to enjoy yourself....
...“An unproven featherweight,” wrote his then team-mate Ashley Cole....
...In the second set, facing Ashley Harkleroad, Jackson hit a forehand that was called out. She asked the umpire for an electronic replay....
...Early in the second set, playing her compatriot Ashley Harkleroad, Jackson hit a forehand that was called out. She quietly asked the umpire for an electronic replay....
...If Arsenal lose Thierry Henry and Ashley Cole this summer, the club will fall further in football’s hierarchy....
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