Brit’s bad Korea move

BRITAIN’S highly respected IOC member Adam Pengilly, a former Olympic skeleton slider, has been sent home from Pyeongchang after an incident with a security guard.

The 40-year-old ran past a Korean guard following a stand-off as Pengilly tried to take a short cut. The guard gave chase and fell over, allegedly injuring himself. Pengilly said: ‘It was my mistake, I should have turned around and I apologise for swearing. There was no fight or scuffle, but I have let myself and others down.’

EDGBASTON will host cricket’s T20 Blast final this summer and for another five years starting in 2020. But bizarrely, Trent Bridge has been chosen to stage the 2019 final. Warwickshire will be negotiating with Notts and the ECB over an exchange or a financial deal so they can host the event uninterrupted. Meanwhile, the ECB were hoping to announce a commercial deal with all 18 counties at the same time as they unveiled the Ashes venues for 2023. But such is the discord with 10 of the counties, who will not be staging internationals or matches in the new T20 tournament, that any deal remains a long way off. The disgruntled counties want an ownership share in the T20.

IT HAS emerged that even football-playing rich kids closeted in a boarding school high in Derbyshire’s Peak District were not safe from serial paedophile Barry Bennell, found guilty of 43 sex offences yesterday. Bennell took a Manchester City junior team to a six-a- side tournament at the school close to his Whaley Bridge home, then spent a number of years there in the 1980s as a part-time coach. He proved very popular with the unsuspecting boys.

It was only years later, when Bennell was implicated in football’s child sex abuse scandal, that the teachers of the time realised they could not have chosen a worse person to have access to boys aged 11-13. Those pupils were probably fortunate that going to a strict boarding school meant Bennell could not lure any of them to his home for an overnight stay.