Salary beats the cap
The News Review:
- Salary beats the cap
- Robert should have given 100 per cent to the cause
- How to whip up a chef
- King Kiwi’s rule resumes
Salary beats the cap
The Age – Apr 17, 2005
While most of this group has passedthe use-by date, some of the younger ones may still have a chanceafter impressive seasons at club level. Michael Klinger, Simon Dart, Liam Buchanan, Clinton Peake, RohanLarkin, Craig Howard, Geoff Allardice, Ian Wrigglesworth, WarrenAyres, Ian Hewitt, Troy Corbett and David Harris all have hadunfulfilled careers in Victorian caps. It is time for some accountability in relation to poordecision-making, recruitment, delisting and most importantlynurturing of our home-grown talent. A structured long-term planning process needs to be implementedas opposed to a topping up short-term fix. It’s easy to point the finger at Matthew Elliott for hisdeparture, but the problem runs much deeper than that.
Robert should have given 100 per cent to the cause
Telegraph.co.uk – Apr 17, 2005
At the very least, he could have been expected to give 100 per cent to the cause. That typifies the great difference between a British and a foreign player. Usually, when his back is to the wall, you will get a positive response from a home-grown footballer, but there is no guarantee of that when you are dealing with a foreigner. What they provide is greater technical ability but not necessarily greater character. Without Dyer, Bowyer and Jermaine Jenas, Newcastle could not produce the quick, passing game they needed; the consequences of the Bowyer-Dyer fight effectively killed them in midfield. Manchester United appeared out of the tunnel like a hungry tiger. The only way Newcastle were going to counter that was to get tight quickly to deny them space and time on the ball.
How to whip up a chef
Telegraph.co.uk – Apr 17, 2005
When you see these words (from Gordon Ramsay – who else?), plus the moody black-and-white cover-shot of chefs brawling in Marco Pierre White’s kitchen, you can think only one thing: you are being served up a home-grown version of Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential. This impression, no doubt cooked up by the publishers, is deceptive. Where Kitchen Confidential was a hard-boiled memoir of “sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine” written by a chef who looks like an extra from The Godfather, Tough Cookies is a series of profiles of four top chefs – Gordon Ramsay, Heston Blumenthal, Shaun Hill and Marcus Wareing – written by a former editor of the AA Restaurant Guide, who himself looks like a geography teacher. The most vivid of these portraits is, unsurprisingly, Gordon Ramsay’s. Anyone who thinks that Ramsay is a mere celebrity soufflé, whip-ped up by television, should read the tale of him clawing himself up from a difficult home life, going into catering because he got too few O-levels to be accepted by the police, then grafting away in the kitchen of a big London hotel.
King Kiwi’s rule resumes
The Age – Apr 17, 2005
1 secondsahead of Ingall, with Holden’s Mark Skaife third. Lowndes’ teammateSteve Ellery finished fourth, having started from 11th position onthe grid, with Ambrose recovering to take fifth. Kiwi Paul Radisich was another home-grown runner to performstrongly. He and his Commodore had started from the seventh row ofthe grid but finished sixth. The result was that one third of the way through this secondround of the championship, Ambrose had increased his title leadfrom nine points to 27. He now has 248 points, ahead of yesterday’s14th placed finisher Lowndes (221) with Holden’s Todd Kelly (eighthyesterday) third on 212. Ingall is next on 200, giving Ford three of the first fourdrivers at this early stage of the 13-round championship.