WHAT’S HOT WHAT’S NOT
HOT TRACEY NEVILLE
HER brother Phil will be under the spotlight as the England Women’s World Cup campaign starts in France tomorrow but Tracey faces a big summer of her own. Neville will step down from her role as England netball coach to start a family after next month’s World Cup. Few have done as much to raise the profile of their sport over the past decade and she deserves to go out on top.
UNION BERLIN
WITH Bayern Munich celebrating their seventh Bundesliga title in a row, German football needs something else to talk about and this is where the top division’s newest club can help out. Union almost went bust about 20 years ago but survived thanks to fan donations and fund-raising. Now they’re in the Bundesliga for the first time and should be on the must-visit list of football anoraks everywhere.
JASPRIT BUMRAH
A COMPELLING start to the World Cup has seen ball hold its own against bat, unusual in modern shortform cricket. With respect to the likes of South Africa’s Kagiso Rabada, Australia’s Mitchell Starc and West Indies’ Andre Russell, the Indian fast bowler’s opening spell against South Africa was almost perfect and therefore the pick of a fine bunch.
NOT TOTTENHAM
A DETAILED TV examination of the Champions League final further underlined what was apparent on the night. Liverpool were awful and there to be beaten. That Mauricio Pochettino and his players could not do it will haunt them for a long time.
ANNA TATISHVILI
THE Georgian-born tennis star, once ranked as high as 50, has been fined her entire French Open pay packet of £41,000 for playing ‘below professional standards’ in losing her first round match 6-0, 6-1. Somewhere here there must be a joke about Manchester United.
DAVID ARGYLE
TORONTO Wolfpack have made incredible strides in establishing themselves as a Championship Rugby League club but now their owner has been accused by Swinton prop Jose Kenga of making a racist remark to him after a game in Canada. In a statement, Argyle has apologised but not denied it. Argyle, an Australian mining magnate, has bankrolled Wolfpack and they owe much to him but how can he remain in charge after this?