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By James Mackney  @JimMackney  @TLE_Sport Ronald Koeman’s appointment after a summer of upheaval was met with approving nods from Southampton fans.  Koeman had steadied the ship at Feyenoord and taken them to new heights in his tenure there.  He had won everything as player and been a part of Louis Van Gaal’s management team at Barcelona.  The future seemed bright and in truth, more often than not this season, it has been. 1: Southampton 8-0 Sunderland Koeman’s side had started...

Sport News 24/7 By Milly Cooper  @MillyCooper  @TLE_Sport One of the final events of the 2014/15 British Alpine snow sporting calendar was the Delancey British Alpine Children’s Championships, an annual race that brings together young athletes from all over the UK as well as international entrants, in order to compete for the top prizes in their age groups.  This year’s event, which took place in the popular French resort of Tignes, saw each junior compete in Slalom, Giant Slalom and...

Sport News 24/7 By James Mackney  @JimMackney  @TLE_Sport When José Fonte arrived from Crystal Palace in January 2010 for a sum in the region of £1.2 million it was with an air of bemusement; after all Fonte had decided to step down from the Championship with Crystal Palace to join Southampton in League 1 midway through the 2009/10 season. He scored his first goal for the club the following season in an emphatic 4-0 over Bristol Rovers, when he opened...

Sport News 24/7 By William Magee  @W_F_Magee  @TLE_Sport Did you think that the £30m rebrand of the ‘Emirates FA Cup’ would be the most unpopular scheme to be associated with the FA this week? Think again. While English football’s governing body has drawn measured criticism for mooted plans to sell the naming rights to the oldest association football competition in the world, this is nothing compared with the widespread recrimination it has received for its part in the current Ryman...

By Andrew Wake, Media and Online Editor at Hatton Boxing  Six years of haggling, pettiness and what some would even describe as lunacy will come to end under the bright lights of Las Vegas this Saturday night as boxing greats and long-time rivals Floyd Mayweather Jnr and Manny Pacquiao finally lock horns. It's a match-up that has been on the wish list of fight aficionados since 2009, but for such a long time it seemed unlikely to happen. Disputes over...

Sport News 24/7 By Alex Dinsdale  @Dinsadelic  @TLE_Sport After a hard-fought win in the Amex stadium, a large group of the 3,000 or so fans who had made the trip down to Brighton found themselves on Brighton beach, waiting tentatively on the rest of the Championship results. With Bournemouth not playing until Monday, Slavisa Jokanovic’s team knew that anything other than a Norwich win, and either Middlesborough or Bournemouth losing would send them up. But on a magical day, Boro,...

Sport News 24/7 By Rob McHugh  @mchughr  @TLE_Sport In the summer of 1999, I never thought I would write the following sentence.  Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink could be a great success as the manager of Leeds United.  I am prepared for the abuse that this may bring, but I genuinely believe it to be the truth.  A man, whose name was tarnished by the acrimonious circumstances surrounding his departure, has been heavily linked with a move to Elland Road to take...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter  @TLE_Sport With a 10 point lead in the Premier League, Chelsea are cruising to a first Premier League crown since 2010.  Add to that a League Cup triumph in March and it has been, on paper at least, a very satisfying year for the West London club.  At the PFA awards on Sunday, Chelsea midfielder Eden Hazard was (rightly in my opinion) named PFA Player of the Year and...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter  @TLE_Sport With England’s failure to win the first Test in Antigua last week, the debate over Kevin Pietersen’s return to the international fold has taken on even greater significance.  Never one to shirk the limelight, Pietersen announced in March that he was eschewing his IPL contract with the Sunrisers Hyderbad in favour of playing a full county season with Surrey in an attempt to force his way back into...