WHAT’S HOT WHAT’S NOT
HOT M. S. DHONI
INDIA’S former captain saw them to a 2-1 ODI series win against Australia with an unbeaten 87 in Melbourne, but his performance in Adelaide was arguably even better. It was 106°F at the Oval as India chased their total and Dhoni was treated on the field for exhaustion with a couple of overs to go. He was still there at the end, though, and will be a familiar threat at this summer’s World Cup in England.
IMKE WUBBENHORST
THE first woman to manage in the German men’s game, Wubbenhorst was asked by a journalist if she asked her players at BV Cloppenburg to put their pants on when she enters the dressing room. ‘Of course not,’ she deadpanned. ‘I pick my players based on penis size.’
JO PAVEY
SHE may not have the highest profile but the 10,000m runner remains a brilliant role model for female athletes. A mother of two now, Pavey is 45 but has her sights set on qualifying for her sixth Olympics next year, equalling Tessa Sanderson’s record. ‘I forget how old I am,’ she said this week. Don’t we all?
NOT NOTTS COUNTY
THE oldest club in the world seemed to be going places under the guidance of chairman Alan Hardy and his deputy, BT commentator Darren Fletcher. But now Fletcher has left — believed to be unhappy over the sacking of Kevin Nolan (above) — and Notts are on their third manager of the season as they sit bottom of League Two. Rumours abound that Hardy — tired of criticism from the Notts fanbase — would now be happy to sell the club.
DAVID WAGNER
IT has looked likely for some time that Huddersfield will be relegated but we hoped they would retain their manager and trust him with bringing the club back up again, just as Burnley did with Sean Dyche in 2015. But Wagner has found the pressures of the Premier League too debilitating and that’s a shame. Sheffield United boss Chris Wilder is on the Terriers’ radar but he has already rebuffed interest from Stoke this season.
NEIL WARNOCK
THE Cardiff manager has been ridiculed for his views on Brexit this week and they were certainly clumsily phrased. However, Warnock’s villification proves only one thing and that is that we are very happy for managers to express views on subjects outside of their sport, just as long as we agree with them.