The Independent (London, England) back issues from March 2009:
Rafa gets taste for blood but is the likely victim
Mar 01, 2009; ... The Last Word Benitez's public blatherings are not the 'Liverpoolway' and will ensure there is no happy ending It was appropriate that what is turning into a mini-Greek tragedyshould have begun in Athens. The final whistle had barely blown onthe 2007 Champions League final when ...
Crassness of Woods' sponsors is insult to rivals
Mar 01, 2009; ... Word reaches The Independent on Sunday that the Tiger Woods campwas not impressed about the huge expectation that greeted hiscomeback in Arizona after an eight-month absence. They thought allthose Tiger will win predictions were neither realistic nor fair andcast a negative shadow over ...
Fear not, Arsene - away goals may see you home
Mar 01, 2009; ... Wenger wants to scrap rule but all four English clubs canprogress Arsne Wenger suggested before the Champions League resumed at theknockout stage last week that the away-goals rule should bescrapped, or at least amended. As he is a student of the world game,who spends more time ...
Woodgate's sights on saving Spurs' season
Mar 01, 2009; ... Straight-talking defender eyes further Carling Cup final glory.By Steve Tongue He has been involved in four transfers, at an average cost ofmore than 9 million, and is an England international who has playedfor the worlds most glamorous club, yet Jonathan Woodgate has ...
'Cup is a bonus - let's concentrate on big League'
Mar 01, 2009; ... It may be telling that when Sir Alex Ferguson sat down and talkedabout Manchester Uniteds Carling Cup campaign on Friday, heoccasionally referred to his team in the third person. Its a bonus really, we didnt plan to be in the final, hesuggested with a slight smile. [The attitude ...
No Becks appeal in Auckland as Galaxy loss is out of this world
Mar 01, 2009; ... Outside the Box They love him in Los Angeles and Milan but Auckland, New Zealand,is less keen on the venerable David Beckham after an LA Galaxy matchbilled around him lost the Auckland Regional Council NZ$1.7 million(630,000). The game was played there last December, shortly ...
O'Neill must be next England manager, says No 1 fan Pulis
Mar 01, 2009; ... Beattie back to his best as Stoke look for first away win - and adouble over Villa Tony Pulis admits he is more likely to give Martin ONeill one ofhis trademark baseball caps than a 300 bottle of claret when histeam visit Aston Villa in a top-versus-bottom encounter today ....
Gallagher's acrobatics stun Wolves as leaders all falter
Mar 01, 2009; ... ROUND-UP Not for the first time this season, the Championship seemed toturn on its head, with only one of the top 11 sides winning and onlyone in the bottom eight losing. Championship leaders Wolves slump inform hit a new low as they lost 1-0 at home to previouslyfreefalling ...
McLaren chief lauds Hamilton for 'humanity'
Mar 01, 2009; ... As Martin Whitmarsh officially takes over today from Ron Dennisas team principal at McLaren, he confesses that he has twooverriding concerns: to win the first race, in Melbourne at the endof the month, and see Lewis Hamilton retain his World Championshiptitle. Whitmarsh joined ...
Murray is doubtful but Lloyd hails play-off pair
Mar 01, 2009; ... John Lloyd admits that next weekends Davis Cup tie againstUkraine in Glasgow may hinge on Andy Murrays fitness, but theBritish captain has been heartened by the outcome of the play-offsfor the final two places in his team. Some doubted the value of holding a six-man shoot-out, but ...
Referrals farce makes mockery of the game
Mar 01, 2009; ... Brilliant Sarwan blunts England's four-man attack but awfuldecisions by third umpire give tourists hope, writes StephenBrenkley in Barbados There is unlikely to be a hung jury when the man of the series isdetermined. Barring spectacular intervention it would takesomething like ...
Harmison falls off pace near the end of long run
Mar 01, 2009; ... In St Kitts at the start of Englands tour, Stephen Harmisonvoiced his worst fear. The odd doubt does come into your mind, hesaid. But hopefully its just that wicket and not me getting old. He was referring to his greatest asset as a fast bowler: hisspeed. With that comes the ...
Love him or loathe him, it's impossible to ignore Clarke
Mar 01, 2009; ... On the Front Foot Forget the cricket, the weeks most memorable presence in Barbadoshas been Giles Clarke. He has variously attempted to charm themedia, thank his wide circle of supporters (9,000 emails, heclaims), and mock his enemies. It has been, in its way, a ...
Wolfman takes wing to soar for Sea Eagles
Mar 01, 2009; ... Manly spoilt for choice for world-title clash with Leeds. By DaveHadfield Manly have come a long way as an entity to contest tonights WorldClub Challenge against Leeds, but nobody has come further and fasterthan the winger they call The Wolfman. A year ago, David Williamswas ...
'Axed' Aldridge ready to splash out with new teen dive partner
Mar 01, 2009; ... Inside Lines Britains new Russian diving performance director, AlexeiEvangulov, has a pressing matter in his in-tray when he takes up hispost tomorrow. He must decide whether to end the partnership of TomDaley and Blake Aldridge after a declaration by Toms father, Rob,that the ...
Slam dunk
Mar 01, 2009 ... Brian ODriscoll scores Irelands only try during a victory ...
O'Driscoll's magic keeps Irish Slam alive
Mar 01, 2009; ... Captain Marvel the difference as English sinners shoot themselvesin foot again. By Tim Glover at Croke Park IRELAND 14 ENGLAND 13 Ireland Try: O'Driscoll Pens: O'Gara 2 Drop goal: O'Driscoll EnglandTry: Armitage Con: Goode Pens: Flood, Armitage Half-time: 3-3 Att:82,000 The ...
MAN FOR MAN: IRELAND
Mar 01, 2009; ... ROB KEARNEY 5/10 Too talented to be used running straight at forwards hangingabout in the backs, really he is, but that was how he was used forthe most part. A low-down, dirty shame. His kicking from hand, likemost of the rest, wasnt at its best. At all. TOMMY BOWE ...
'He deserves some sort of award ...'
Mar 02, 2009; ... Regulars at St Mary's Catholic Social Club welcome home local boywho grew up to become an Oscar winner IT is one thing to be showered with Academy Awards or to dancelike Tigger at the Oscars, watched by a global television audienceof billions. It is quite another to receive the ...
Critic's Choice
Mar 02, 2009; ... The Real Pink Panther: Lord Victor Hervey 8PM CHANNEL 4 The Toffs and Crims season ends with this film (above) aboutVictor Hervey, the sixth Marquess of Bristol and father of theirritating It Girls Victoria and Isabella. Hervey was jailed forthree years in 1939 after a spate ...
Film Choice
Mar 02, 2009; ... The Million Pound Note 11.15AM MORE4 (Ronald Neame, 1953) A perky adaptation of a satirical shortstory by Mark Twain, in which Gregory Peck plays a pennilessAmerican sailor handed a 1m note by a pair of British eccentrics onthe condition that he not spend it for the first ...
Radio Choice
Mar 02, 2009 ... Third Agers 9.05AM, 12.05PM, 4.05PM, 8.05PM & 1.05AM WORLD SERVICE How, in five different countries, grandmothers are refusing togrow old, bringing up grandchildren orphaned by Aids and goingstrong in the workplace well into their seventies. Jane Littlereports. Book ...
The best of both worlds
Mar 02, 2009; ... The Weekend's Television MONTY HALLS' GREAT ESCAPE SUN BBC2 PAULMERTON LOOKS AT ALFRED HITCHCOCK SAT BBC4 AL MURRAY'S MULTIPLEPERSONALITY DISORDER FRI ITV1 Judging from the first episode of Monty Halls Great Escape, itspresenter is not a man whos nervous about stating the ...
An innocent at risk of corruption
Mar 02, 2009; ... The Monday Book CHOKE CHAIN By Jason Donald JONATHAN CAPE, Pounds12.99 Order for Pounds 11.69 (free p&p) from the IndependentBookshop: 0870 079 8897 South Africa can be a brutal spot for human relations. This novelopens with a storm of monstrous hailstones, some the size of a ...
POP
Mar 02, 2009; ... COLIN BLUNSTONE 100 Club, London **** The resurgence of all things progressive in rock, from the re-emergence of Van der Graaf Generator to the stadium-filling anticsof Radiohead and Muse, has cast a new light on overlooked cataloguesfrom bands such as The Alan Parsons Project ...
Dark delights of mass destruction
Mar 02, 2009; ... OPERA DOCTOR ATOMIC Coliseum, London **** At the end of the first act of John Adamss Doctor Atomic, JRobert Oppenheimer harbinger of mass destruction is suddenlyconfronted by the enormity of what he has created. Invoking thewords of John Donne his Holy Sonnet Batter my heart, ...
CLASSICAL
Mar 02, 2009; ... AX/DUDAMEL/PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Royal Festival Hall, London ***** When a dynamic young musician suddenly emerges from theunlikeliest background and amid sensational publicity, standingovations are liable to follow, whatever the quality of the actualperformances. Yet the ...
Katy can sure work a crowd
Mar 02, 2009; ... POP KATY PERRY Koko, London **** At a time when rapid rises in the world of pop are commonplace,the career trajectory of Katy Perry has been especially steep. Herbreakthrough single, I Kissed a Girl, was released only last May,but by November she had presented the MTV Europe ...
HERCULES BELLVILLE
Mar 02, 2009; ... Much-loved film producer who worked with Polanski, Bertolucci andAntonioni Hercules Bellville devoted his life to the cultivation offriendship and the making of films. He was a very considerable filmscholar and in terms of intellectual history he should be classedwith his Oxford ...
MAN FOR MAN: ENGLAND
Mar 01, 2009; ... DELON ARMITAGE 6/10 Kicking from hand wasnt at its best, but that didnt mark him outfrom the run of things, did it? Took out ODriscoll to concede apenalty, although any full-back would have done that. Kicked adecent long penalty and scored a late try, thanks to Goodes ...
The week ahead
Mar 01, 2009; ... TODAY Poor Spurs manager Harry Redknapp has spent all week moaningabout not having time to visit a spa or get a suit fitted, and hismood wont improve after the Carling Cup final if Manchester Unitedtake another step towards the quintuplet (although the World ClubChampionship ...
Centre stage at last for patient understudy
Mar 01, 2009; ... In Shay Given's shadow for 12 years but Newcastle's new No 1never lost the self-belief forged as a kid from the coalfieldsduring the bitter miners' strike Steve Harper takes your pen into his left hand and starts drawinga map. Those are the A streets, he says, those are the B and ...
Book of the Week
Mar 01, 2009; ... Run Your First Marathon by Grete Waitz, Gloria Averbuch If youre running the London Marathon on 26 April, this manual hascome too late for you; Grete Waitz recommends an absolute minimum of16 weeks training, preferably far longer. And as Norways runningmachine won the London ...
Outside Edge
Mar 01, 2009; ... KOLO TOURS superstition about being the last player to take thepitch proved bad luck last week when Arsenal kicked off the secondhalf against Roma without him as he waited for William Gallas, whohad been receiving treatment. The Ivorian was then yellow-carded forscurrying on late without ...
Fast Buck can earn indoor glory with grandad as coach
Mar 01, 2009; ... Time has come for Yorkshire student to show class at EuropeanChampionships It is five years now since Richard Buck beat the chimes at YorkMinster, completing a 440-metre course in the shadow of the greatGothic cathedral in the minute it took for the bells to stop ringingand the ...
Nicholls' Bric hits the target
Mar 01, 2009; ... Champion trainer finds firm approach makes the difference formoody chaser The riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma that is NewLittle Bric returned to his best form at Newbury yesterday to takethe days richest prize, the 53,000 Totesport.com Gold Cup HandicapChase. The ...
Pengilly breaks new ground for Britain
Mar 01, 2009 ... Sport in Brief Adam Pengilly won Great Britains second silver medal of theSkeleton World Championships in Lake Placid, 24 hours after AmyWilliams took silver in the womens competition. It is the first timeBritain have won two medals at a World Championships. Pengilly wasdown in ...
Warren lifts our heads because we've still got points to make
Mar 01, 2009; ... Column It took only a few minutes after the end in Paris for WarrenGatland (right) to stand up and say what needed to be said. For thefirst time in two years it was a losing dressing room for Wales inthe Six Nations, it was deadly quiet and all the boys heads weredown. But ...
Walker's drop too much for Wasps
Mar 01, 2009; ... Four penalties from Danny Cipriani were not enough for Wasps tohold off Worcester at Sixways, as a last-minute drop goal from thehome sides on-loan stand-off Willie Walker sealed a 13-12 victory. The young Worcester centre Alex Grove scored the only try of thematch if Wasps slow ...
Hill's exit and Sarries' mass exodus show rugby is the new football
Mar 01, 2009; ... Ruck and Maul It hasnt reached the stage where the chairman gives his coach avote of confidence, but the Guinness Premiership is picking up badhabits from football. Utter carnage last week from Bristol toSaracens as Richard Hill left the West Country club and Sarriesannounced a ...
Award offered to anyone who can find the key to success
Mar 01, 2009; ... The Hacker At last, proper golfers are going to get recognition at Bury StEdmunds. This year there will really be something to play for roundour lovely parkland course, with its tight, wooded fairways,strategically placed bunkers and tricky, true greens. Never mind theJuby Cup, ...
It's all over Rafa - that's a fact
Mar 01, 2009; ... Benitez refuses to concede title to United but writing is on wallas lacklustre Liverpool lose to struggling Boro There are 11 games and three months of the Premier League seasonremaining but Liverpools hopes of a first title since 1990 slopedout the door at Middlesbroughs ...
Johnson sees red over England's yellow fever
Mar 01, 2009; ... Where England had planned, or at least hoped, that cool headswould reign, seething anger and recrimination held sway at CrokePark. Two yellow cards in the second half which ushered Irelandtowards victory and took the English total of sin-bin stints to 10in four matches drew a cutting ...
Lampard shows perfect sense of timing for Blues
Mar 01, 2009; ... Last-gasp goal breaks Wigan hearts and moves Chelsea aboveLiverpool CHELSEA 2 Terry (25), Lampard (90) WIGAN ATHLETIC 1 Kapo(82) Last April, Emile Heskey stunned Stamford Bridge with anequalising goal for Wigan in the final minute that effectively endedChelseas hopes of winning ...
Tuncay ends Liverpool's title dream
Mar 01, 2009; ... Benitez's men follow Madrid magic by firing blanks to kill offLeague hopes as Turk pulls Boro out of the drop zone MIDDLESBROUGH 2Alonso og (32), Tuncay (63) LIVERPOOL 0Madrid? Yes. Middlesbrough? No. The frustrating contradictionthat is Rafael Benitezs Liverpool was in evidence ...
Nakamura hat-trick helps Celtic run riot
Mar 01, 2009; ... CELTIC 7 Nakamura (16, 35, 58), Crosas (51), S Brown (55, 68),Potter og (76) ST MIRREN 0 This good old-fashioned tonking, with Shunsuke Nakamuras hat-trick just one of the talking points, has done wonders for thewinners goal difference, which could yet prove crucial in the ...
De Villiers ton but Australia in driving seat
Mar 01, 2009; ... An unbeaten century from AB de Villiers was the only positivethat South Africa could extract from the third day of the openingTest against Australia at the Wanderers, with the tourists reaching51 for 1 by the close for an overall lead of 297. Responding to Australias 466, the home ...
Casey given final chance to rule the world
Mar 01, 2009; ... Paul Casey will today become the first British golfer to contestthe final of the Accenture World Match Play Championship. But if hecan somehow find a way past the mighty challenge of the AustralianGeoff Ogilvy, there will be so many other firsts to celebrate thathe will not know which to ...
Roberts steals it for Wigan
Mar 01, 2009; ... HARLEQUINS 18 WIGAN WARRIORS 24 Half-time: 10-6 Att: 3,883 Wigan scratched out their first win of the season, thanks to aninterception try from Amos Roberts five minutes from time. Thewinger capitalised on a mistake from one of Quins best players onthe night, Chad Randall, before ...
Cahill exposes holes in Albion philosophy
Mar 01, 2009; ... EVERTON 2 Cahill (36), Saha (70) WEST BROMWICH ALBION 0With the sliver of daylight between their side and the otherstragglers fast developing into something more substantial, WestBromwich Albion fans might not have been terribly heartened to hearTony Mowbray insist last night ...
Arsenal's misses in action cause crisis of faith
Mar 01, 2009; ... ARSENAL 0 FULHAM 0 Arsne Wenger has been critical of Arsenal fans for lackingpatience in his young team this season. Well, if it has been wearingthin then yesterdays fourth successive goalless draw in the PremierLeague just about wore it out. Not since the days of George ...
Danielli's art paints Hadden out of an awkward corner
Mar 01, 2009; ... SCOTLAND 26 ITALY 6 Scotland Tries: Danielli, Gray Cons: Godman,Paterson Pens: Paterson 3, Godman Italy Pen: McLean Drop goal:ParisseHalf-time: 16-3 Att: 51,039 Gash copy gash copy gash copygash copy gash copy gash copy gash copy Amid the rust and the clankingly inanimate fare on ...
Simpson-Daniel double proves trouble for Bath
Mar 01, 2009; ... Electric running from Gloucester's backs lights up a sparky matchand helps build lead at top of table GLOUCESTER 36 BATH 27 Gloucester Tries: Simpson-Daniel 2, Sharples, Lawson Cons: Spencer,Barkley Pens: Spencer, Barkley 3 Bath Tries: Hawkins 2, Higgins Cons: James 3 Pens: James ...
DeGale leads the charge of triumphant Olympic trio
Mar 01, 2009; ... Skelton may have lost his crown but exciting group of tiros arecoming through Frank Warren celebrated his 57th birthday yesterday but it washis young Olympians who received the presents. On a night whenveteran Matt Skelton crashed out and lost his Commonwealthheavyweight title, ...
JACK COVER
Mar 02, 2009; ... Inventor of the Taser stun gun Faced in the 1960s with a rash of hijackings in which an errantshot from an armed sky marshal could bring down the plane, USauthorities were searching for a weapon to subdue an attackerwithout killing him. Their need was met by Jack Cover, inventor ...
BEN JONES
Mar 02, 2009; ... Photographer who helped establish Page Three Ben Jones was true old-school Fleet Street. His abiding legacy ishis freelance photographic portfolio of Page 3 Girls in the 1970sand showbusiness figures in the 60s and 80s, such as Joan Collins,Barbara Windsor, Danny La Rue and ...
Stargazing The skies in March
Mar 02, 2009; ... O Moon, when I gaze on your beautiful face, careering alongthrough the boundaries of space the thought has often come into mymind if ever I shall see thy glorious behind. The English poet Edmund Gosse claimed his housekeeper pennedthese lines. Although not the most brilliant ...
Dress code
Mar 02, 2009 ... What are you wearing right now? Earnest Sewn jeans, a navy button-down shirt, leather jacket andclassic tan leather Scribes by Bally. Whos your style icon? Hmm; many, but Lauren Hutton and Steve McQueen definitely top thelist. Describe the best outfit you have ...
2 MARCH 1943
Mar 02, 2009 ... Days Like These JOSEPH GOEBBELS, Nazi propaganda minister, writes in his diary:We are now pushing the Jews out of Berlin. They were rounded up lastSaturday, and are to be carted off to the East. Unfortunately ourbetter circles, especially the intellectuals, once again have ...
How to be happy alone
Mar 02, 2009; ... Life Support ESSENTIAL SKILLS FOR THE MODERN WORLD WAKE UP TO THE BENEFITS OF SOLITUDE Some people are brilliant at being alone, while others find thevery idea of going to the cinema by themselves depressing, and wouldrather starve than ask a matre d for a table for one. If ...
Virginia Ironside's Dilemmas
Mar 02, 2009; ... Dear Virginia, My mother died a month ago, leaving herpossessions to my brother and me. As I had an old computer, I tookher newer one. But I've been knocked sideways by reading some of heremails to friends. It seems she worried about me all the time, andwas desperately hurt when I told ...
Animal crackers
Mar 02, 2009; ... Why have pet memoirs replaced misery-lit on bestseller lists? TimWalker sniffs out the story How do you make a grown man cry? A swift kick in the gonads mightdo the trick, but if youre more of a long-game player, you mightprefer to lend him a copy of Marley and Me, the memoir by ...
Blue heaven
Mar 02, 2009; ... Nothing sums up fashion's current penchant for practicalitybetter than the vogue for denim. Harriet Walker rediscovers thefabric for our distressed times The autumn shows are great for trend voyeurism from Whats BigRight Now, to the Next Big Thing, to Something Else Big Lurking ...
Photos and fantasy
Mar 02, 2009; ... Gerhard Richter's soft-focus portraits are stunning, says TomLubbock. But British painter Liz Arnold was more inventive Gerhard Richter is a master from Germany. You cant set the sceneof contemp-orary painting without giving him a leading role. Therehave been several chances to ...
Girls gone bad
Mar 02, 2009; ... London Fashion Week hasn't lost its rebel spirit - Pixie Geldof,Pamela Anderson and Linda Blair were the feisty females inspiringdesigners, writes Susannah FrankelBad girls. Pixie Geldof is on the cover of the March issue ofItalian Vogue. So young, so cool, gushes the ...