Arsenal benefitted from an early red card shown to their former player Steve Sidwell when edging past Fulham 1-0 in an nervy performance at Craven Cottage, where a Per Mertesacker header gave the visitors the honours. Sidwell was dismissed for a dangerous tackle on Mikel Arteta just 12 minutes into his return to first-team football following another red card in a home win over QPR on April 1. [More]

Per Mertesacker's goal allowed Arsenal to consolidate its position in the Champions League places following a nervy 1-0 win at Fulham on Saturday, while Sunderland, Stoke and Norwich grabbed huge victories to boost their hopes of surviving relegation from the English Premier League. Mertesacker’s 43rd-minute heade [More]

Netball South Africa’s (NSA’s) aim of joining the world’s top three netball nations took a major step forward on Wednesday with the announcement that long-time sponsor SPAR was renewing and increasing its sponsorship for the next three years. “For the past 10 years, we have had a strong and close relationship with netball, which has become our [More]

When your surname is Woods, it tends to open a few doors in golf. So when Cheyenne Woods wanted to know a bit more about South Africa ahead of her debut in this week’s South African Women’s Open, she asked a friend. Gary Player. And she did so at last week’s Masters. “I spoke to Mr Player and he told me a lot about the country. He told me the beaches here are beautiful. And he spoke [More]

Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer said the first national training camp of 2013, held in Cape Town from Sunday to Tuesday, was a huge success, despite a number of front line players sitting out training because of injuries. A Springbok training squad convened in Cape Town on Sunday, a day after the country’s top players took on each other in two physical Vodacom Super Rugby derbies. [More]

The Stormers responded magnificently to the pressures of an exacting start to their Super Rugby season with stirring win over the Sharks in their derby clash at Newlands on Saturday. Given their poor run of successes in their previous six matches, few would have backed the Stormers to triumph against the Sharks on Saturday. However, by defeating Sharks and previously the Brumbies and the Chiefs, the Stormers have sounded a championship warning. It is worth noting that their three wins in seven matches have been against the SA, [More]

Heyneke Meyer has a few concerns about South Africa's playing capacity at the breakdowns and the slow development of backline play. The Springbok coach shared his thoughts with the rugby media after his 36-man training squad rounded off their camp in Newlands on Monday evening. Meyer has prepared a presentation which he hopes will help to up the skills of [More]

The DHL Stormers bounced back from recent defeats in spectacular fashion by defeating the South African Conference log-leaders, the Sharks, 22-15 in their Vodacom Super Rugby derby against the Sharks at Newlands on Saturday evening, after leading 16-6 at halftime. The outcome was a fitting reward for the Stormers, who have been [More]

The DHL Stormers held a deserved 16-6 lead at the break in their Vodacom Super Rugby derby against the Sharks at Newlands on Saturday evening. The loss of an early line-out may have been a hint that there problems in store for the home side, but they shook off the setback with dashing forays into Sharks territory. The pressure they created forced the Sharks [More]

The Stormers face the daunting prospect of ending a two-match sequence of defeats when they host the Sharks at Newlands on Saturday evening. The magnitude of the Stormers' task is perhaps best illustrated by the massive nine-point gap that the Sharks have opened between them on the latest Vodacom Super Rugby standings. [More]