The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from June 1999:
Racing - Vodafone Derby: Classic double sealed by Oath Cecil colt surges to impressive win Tony Stafford on how a brilliant display completed a remarkable weekend for two brothers
Jun 06, 1999; ... KIEREN FALLON and Henry Cecil completed a momentous Classicweekend at Epsom when Oath, the 13-2 second favourite, outstayed andoutpaced a high-class field for an emphatic success in the VodafoneDerby at Epsom. Twenty-four hours earlier, Ramruma had given the partnership anOaks ...
Racing - Vodafone Derby: Suffolk posse conquers Epsom James Mossop on how two of Newmarket's top professionals have grown into a formidable team
Jun 06, 1999; ... THEY swooped in from Newmarket with a posse of brilliance and themodesty of villagers conquering the Sport of Kings. The first fourpast the post in the Vodafone Derby at a windswept Epsom were fromracing's Suffolk headquarters. Glasses were raised all around for Oath, a bay colt, ...
Racing - Vodafone Derby: Sweat but no tears for unflappable Fallon Brough Scott reports on another victorious day for a partnership the critics said could never last
Jun 06, 1999; ... ADRENALIN is the key. Beforehand it nearly blew Oath's head off.But once racing it was the spur that drove him to where onlychampions go. In the paddock he had merely been a-bubble. A neat, prancing,powerfully muscled bay colt in the trademark white bridle with whichhis owner ...
Rugby Union: Daring Wales steal victory from Pumas
Jun 06, 1999; ... Argentina26 Wales36 WALES, searching for a fourth successive Test match victory,recovered from a 23-0 deficit in Buenos Aires last night, toregistera wonderful 36-26 victory over Argentina in the first Test.Led by captain Robert Howley, the tourists looked down and ...
Rugby Union: Ireland cause for concern
Jun 06, 1999; ... New South Wales39 Ireland24 IRELAND'S tour of Australia suffered a major setback at theSydneyFootball Stadium yesterday when an under-strength New South Walesranout comfortable winners.The Irish failed to build on Monday's opening tour win against NewSouth Wales ...
Rugby Union: Three top London clubs merge Nick Rouse on London Irish, London Scottish and Richmond becoming a new super club
Jun 06, 1999; ... LONDON Irish will mark their centenary year by absorbing the mucholder Richmond and London Scottish to form a new super-club in south-west London. The merger of the three teams will create English rugby unionhistory. Clubs have combined into one outfit frequently, but therehas ...
Rugby League: Spruce leads Bulls charge
Jun 06, 1999; ... Sheffield2 Bradford52 NOW established in second place in the Super League, theformidable Bradford Bulls forge on towards the Grand Final, but thisrout leaves Sheffield Eagles' hopes of a top-five place looking well-nigh hopeless.One has to feel some sympathy for Sheffield, ...
Rugby League: Edwards and Offiah out Mark Jeffreys believes London's illustrious pair must know their days are numbered at the Stoop
Jun 06, 1999; ... LONDON Broncos have made it patently clear that Martin Offiah andShaun Edwards are on their way out of the Stoop. Both players areagain unwanted goods for today's visit to Huddersfield Giants, andOffiah yesterday hinted that showdown talks with the club wereimminent. "I don't ...
Boxing: Calzaghe defends his title with ease Steve Bunce sees the WBO champion cruise to victory but unable to knock out his opponent
Jun 06, 1999; ... JOE Calzaghe will need to concentrate his efforts if he is toprove that he is a great fighter. Last night at the Cardiff arena heretained his World Boxing Organisation super-middleweight title whenhe dominated 12 rounds and won a one-sided decision over Australia'slikeable but limited ...
Motor Racing: Boredom driving F1 fans to distraction FIA president Max Mosley tells James Mossop he rejects calls to make grands prix more exciting
Jun 06, 1999; ... FORMULA One's bore factor, with overtaking a rarity and the trackan incident-free zone, is likely to continue while the row betweenowners, drivers and officials rumbles on and viewers switch off. Those doing the shouting are not prepared to talk to each other,which is why the ...
Letter to the Sports Editor: MCC ticket scam
Jun 06, 1999 ... SIR - In view of the controversy over MCC members and World Cuptickets, fellow cricket lovers might be interested in the followingconversation between members of the MCC which took place in the rowbehind me at the Oval when England played South Africa. "Got your tickets for the ...
Letter to the Sports Editor: Mauled by naivety
Jun 06, 1999 ... SIR - After reading Paul Ackford on the Lawrence Dallaglio affairit is incomprehensible how naive it was that neither Dallaglio, hisagent, Ashley Woolfe, Nigel Melville, Wasps' director of rugby, northe England coach Clive Woodward questioned the credentials of theNews of the World ...
Letter to the Sports Editor: Raw deal for punters
Jun 06, 1999 ... SIR - As a mad horse racing follower I find it hard to believethere is not one radio station in Britain which broadcasts dailyracemeetings. Instead, if you can't get to a bookmaker's office ...
Letter to the Sports Editor: Lay off Pierce
Jun 06, 1999 ... SIR - Too much fuss is being made about Mary Pierce takingcreatine. It is neither illegal nor harmful in moderation. But whatis really annoying is the tabloid press's insistence that it isturning her into a muscle-bound monster. Nothing could be furtherfrom the ...
Letter to the Sports Editor: Sack the selectors
Jun 06, 1999 ... SIR - Loyal English cricket supporters have just witnessedanotherdisastrous display and now it's time for heads to roll. First to go should be the selectors, who continue to play men whohave not been up to Test standard. We have stuck too long with theinconsistency of Hick, the ...
Cycling: Pantani's tour ended by positive drug test Matthew Hannah reports on the latest doping scandal to engulf cycling as one of the biggest names in the sport is disgraced with victory beckoning in the Tour of Italy
Jun 06, 1999; ... MARCO PANTANI, the winner of last year's Tour de France, wasthrown out of the Tour of Italy yesterday after failing a drugstest. Pantani, the defending champion, was one of 10 competitors testedby the sport's world governing body, the UCI, in Madonna diCampiglioand the only one ...
Golf: Storm whips up dazzling triumph Masters and Open invites are the reward for the Amateur Championship victor who has made a point to the Walker Cup selectors Derek Lawrenson watches an Englishman's landslide win at Royal County Down
Jun 06, 1999; ... FOR Graeme Storm, it was just about the perfect day. On a sun-blessed occasion at the finest golf course he has ever seen - or islikely to see, come to that - he claimed the Amateur Championshipplaying golf that for the most part was of a quality rarely seen infinals. His margin of ...
Golf: Clarke's late birdie surge keeps charging Montgomerie at bay Claire Middleton reports on how a commanding lead was built at Hanbury Manor
Jun 06, 1999; ... COLIN Montgomerie launched another of his spectacular Saturdaycharges to give himself a chance of a third European Tour victory infour weeks. At the Compass Group English Open at Hanbury Manor, heshot a third-round 65 to end the day at 11 under par, and well inthehunt for another ...
Cricket: Aggressive Law still unable to tilt the balance Essex v Hampshire
Jun 06, 1999; ... STUART Law plundered his fourth century this summer to brightenupa match that was always likely to end in a draw after the first dayhad been lost to rain. The Australian, who had hit a half-century in the first innings,was unbeaten on 107 before Essex declared on 218 for ...
Cricket: Fleming defiant as Kent crash Kent v Surrey
Jun 06, 1999; ... "WHY do so many people want to be captain?" Derek Underwood onceasked. It is a question Kent's Matthew Fleming, the captain ofUnderwood's old county, could have been forgiven for asking himselfafter this comprehensive defeat. After he had led his side for some post-match, ...
Cricket: Hick douses Sussex fire but provides fuel for his critics Sussex v Worcestershire
Jun 06, 1999; ... THERE are those so convinced that the England Cricket Board's aimis, at the very least, a control over world affairs that headlinesinthe financial pages this week announcing "ECB set to spend millionssupporting Euro" will only have confirmed worst fears. The body in question, of ...
Cricket: Cork has pop but McGrath bubbles Derbyshire v Yorkshire
Jun 06, 1999; ... "AND a warm welcome for the Derbyshire fielders," exhorted thepublic address announcer, "led by . . . " The pause was at least sixmonths' pregnant. "Dominic Cork," chirped a voice that may or maynot have belonged to one of the captain's charges. As a reminder of how slippery ...
Cricket: Jones proves point to hold off Durham Durham v Somerset
Jun 06, 1999; ... IT IS a year to the day since Durham's last championship win, butthey were hot on the trail of victory yesterday until the task ofkeeping up with the Joneses took its toll and rain brought furtherfrustration. First a fellow named I Jones returned to haunt Durham. It mightalmost ...
Cricket: `Exhausted' Mullally misses cure Leics v Glamorgan
Jun 06, 1999; ... ALAN MULLALLY, who withdrew from this game citing "mental andphysical exhaustion" after England's World Cup exit, may have endedup questioning whether there was really any need for that decisionasa rain-ruined match meandered to a draw. As rest cures go, this was just about ideal ...
Cricket: Whatmore stakes his claim Gloucs v Lancs
Jun 06, 1999; ... DUNCAN Fletcher may be the firm favourite to succeed David Lloydas England coach, but he is not the only overseas figure to be askedto an interview by the England management advisory committee. Dav Whatmore, who guided Sri Lanka to World Cup glory three yearsago, yesterday ...
Cricket: Amiss under the weather Warwicks v Middx
Jun 06, 1999; ... WARWICKSHIRE are now into the second half of their home programmein the County Championship. Five matches have been completed andonly four remain, two in July, none in August and two in September. When the fixture list is so unbalanced - and chief executiveDennis Amiss was unable ...
Cricket: Notts rally for a draw
Jun 06, 1999; ... Northants v NottsIF Nottinghamshire were left shell-shocked by Northamptonshire'sbarrage of boundaries on Friday, they showed commendable resiliencein regrouping to thwart the home side's victory hopes - with someassistance from the weather - at Northampton yesterday. Paul ...
Cricket World Cup: Stewart should stay at the England helm Michael Atherton urges the captain to continue leading from the front but without his gloves
Jun 06, 1999; ... UNEASY lies the head that wears a crown. Alec Stewart may havebeen cast in the role of Henry IV in this the worst week of hiscaptaincy but, unlike Shakespeare's king, he is experienced enoughtoknow that the first rule of leadership is that, if the side playsbadly, the captain cops the ...
Cricket World Cup: England have Fletcher in sights Scyld Berry on a man with many strings to his bow who is the new favourite to take over as coach
Jun 06, 1999; ... DUNCAN Fletcher, a Zimbabwean with no Test experience, hasemergedas the hot favourite to become the new England cricket coach. In a surprise move, England are poised to turn to the man whocoached Glamorgan to the 1997 County Championship to lead them intoanew era following the ...
Cricket World Cup: Graveney plays for time as Hussain is kept waiting Scyld Berry concludes that the time is not right for the Surrey stalwart's reign to end
Jun 06, 1999; ... IT IS not a question of whether Nasser Hussain will succeed AlecStewart but when - now or next spring? And it is a debate which willrun for a week or two as David Graveney, England's chairman ofselectors, has asked for "the maximum time" to be taken before theEngland captaincy is ...
Cricket World Cup: We were not good enough when it mattered Angus Fraser reflects on the disappointments of England's early departure
Jun 06, 1999; ... ARRIVING back at Edgbaston on Thursday for Middlesex's `eagerlyawaited' clash with Warwickshire did not, unsurprisingly, fill mewith glee. With the memories of last Sunday's game still fresh in mymind there could have been better places to convalesce. There were many distressing ...
Cricket World Cup: McGrath is rapidly driving Australia towards crown Ian Chappell says that Steve Waugh's improving team are starting to look like world beaters
Jun 06, 1999; ... AUSTRALIA reverted to type and aggressively brushed aside Indiaina display of such power and precision that it will concern the otherteams who are fighting for a semi-final spot. Gone was the tentative batting, the wayward bowling and sloppyfielding which marked their opening in ...
Cricket World Cup: Cairns' skills can put Kiwis in overdrive Sir Richard Hadlee on how a reformed rogue has stepped out of his famous father's shadow
Jun 06, 1999; ... IF Chris Cairns can produce his best all-round form, startingwithNew Zealand's first Super Six match against Zimbabwe today, theKiwis' attempt to win their first World Cup will be a realisticgoal. When Cairns strides to the wicket during one-day internationalsinNew Zealand, ...
Cricket World Cup: Johnson lifts outsiders to new heights Steve James on the all-rounder who has helped put Zimbabwe within sight of the semi-finals
Jun 06, 1999; ... ZIMBABWE'S remarkable progress to the Super Sixes cannot beconsidered anything other than a team effort, but if you had to nameone individual as the cornerstone, you would surely come up with thename of Neil Johnson. It was the former Natal all-rounder who lastweekend produced a ...
Cricket World Cup: Fear of failure separates winners from losers A Personal View
Jun 06, 1999; ... ENGLAND vanished from the World Cup scene last week. They weregood enough to be in the Super Sixes but it did not quite work outtheir way. By whatever scoring system points accrue in a World Cuptournament, the essential knock-out element of one-day cricket winsin the end. Every team ...
Cricket World Cup: Klusener glows in the dark Record falls as South Africa buck trend
Jun 06, 1999; ... SOUTH AFRICA v PAKISTAN IT WAS another lowish- scoring match on another cool day inconditions made for pace bowlers yet again. For a change thoughthere was an exciting finish, which saw South Africa beat Pakistaninthis Super Six match with an over to spare, but leaving ...
Cricket World Cup: Moin proves Pakistan are far from out Michael Atherton believes Wasim's team will recover from yesterday's setback
Jun 06, 1999; ... PAKISTAN can never be accused of playing safe. They are theJekyll and Hydes of international cricket and can be at once eitheroutstanding or ordinary. They are a team full of mavericks, filledwith talent, both brilliant and fallible. Not for them the virtuesof hard work, graft and honest ...
Cricket World Cup: `Shoaib's one 17-run over cost us the match' Wasim Akram says the one blessing of losing is that it helps remove complacency
Jun 06, 1999; ... EVEN though we ended up on the losing side, this game was perhapsthe best of the tournament. It was closely fought and swung one wayand the other right through the day. At the end, however, SouthAfrica pipped us and were deserving winners. South Africa are agreat side and the fact that ...
Cricket World Cup: Atherton back in the middle for Lancashire World Cup Focus
Jun 06, 1999; ... MICHAEL Atherton will take his first steps towards a comeback onTuesday when he plays for the Lancashire second team againstYorkshire in Middlesbrough. The former England captain, forced to pull out of the World Cupsquad because of persistent back problems, has been undergoing ...
Tennis - French Open: Graf's improbable comeback Neil Harman in Paris witnesses an amazing sixth and final French success for a veteran champion
Jun 06, 1999; ... STEFFI Graf La Reine de France. The title was rightly bestowed atRoland Garros last night upon Steffi Graf after one of the mostremarkable, improbable, controversial and compelling women's finalsof any era. Let's dispense with the formalities. Steffi Graf of Germany, thesixth ...
Tennis - French Open: Hingis surrenders title and her dignity David Miller watches an old predator putting a petulant teenager in her place
Jun 06, 1999; ... THE animal world can be merciless. Sport is the same. Theyounger generation instinctively know when the older predators havelost their touch. The end can be cruel. Was this how it was goingto be for Steffi Graf, giving away 11 years to Martina Hingis, thegirl who had once beaten her as a ...
Tennis - French Open: Agassi aspiring to strut his stuff with the greats John McEnroe says the `kid' from Las Vegas has never been so hungry to win a tournament
Jun 06, 1999; ... I FEEL I've known Andre Agassi reasonably well for a number ofyears. I wouldn't say we're bosom buddies but I called him rightafter I heard about the split from his wife, offering my support. Hesaid: "I've never been better, never felt better, we get alonggreat." I'm thinking `wait a ...
Tennis - French Open: Wild man of tennis stakes a place among the legends Neil Harman on the amazing turnaround in the fortunes of Andre Agassi's erratic career
Jun 06, 1999; ... TO the four tribunes of Roland Garros, he bowed and blew kissesand the people gave him his dues. Andre Agassi, back in a Grand Slamfinal for the first time in four years, is on the threshold ofcomplete fulfilment and a place among the legends. If the 29-year-old Agassi should ...
Soccer - European Championship: Gould quits as debacle in Italy leaves Wales with remote hope
Jun 06, 1999; ... ITALY4 WALES0 BOBBY Gould resigned here last night as manager of Wales afteroneof the more embarrassing performances during his turbulent four-yearreign.He immediately recommended to the Football Association of Walesthat he be succeeded by a dual management team of ...
Soccer - European Championship: Elliott sent off as Faroes leave Scots all at sea
Jun 06, 1999; ... FAROE ISLANDS 1 SCOTLAND 1 SCOTLAND'S chance of qualifying for Euro 2000 evaporated lastnight with the dismissal of Matt Elliott for slapping the Faroeseforward Todi Jonsson moments before half-time. Elliott's absence didnot help the Scottish defence as the game moved into ...
Soccer - European Championship: New hope for Ireland as signs of compromise loom James Mossop reports that UEFA now have a chance to rescind their threat of expulsion
Jun 06, 1999; ... NOT quite a rainbow over Irish football this morning, but a bleakweek has given way to optimism for Mick McCarthy and his footballersas they contemplate a future in Euro 2000. For too many long days and nights last week they feared theymightbe kicked out of the competition by ...
Soccer - European Championship: Republic helped by Hristov EUROPEAN ROUND-UP
Jun 06, 1999; ... BARNSLEY forward Georgi Hristov gave the Republic of Ireland'shope of qualifying a huge lift as he scored a late equaliser forMacedonia against Croatia in Group Eight. Hristov, who came on as asubstitute, beat the veteran Croatia goalkeeper Drazen Ladic with 10minutes left after Davor ...
Soccer - European Championship: Sheringham the man to fill the breach against Bulgaria Patrick Barclay is surprised by Kevin Keegan's reluctance to turn to the hero of Barcelona in his Wembley hour of need
Jun 06, 1999; ... AS TESTS of an international manager go, the one currently facingKevin Keegan is hardly the most stringent. He must supervise avictory over Bulgaria, who are in a far worse state than England andalready resigned to failure to qualify for the EuropeanChampionship.Indeed the Bulgarians ...
Soccer: Reid takes up under-21 role Jack Carroll on the national recognition for Sunderland's successful manager
Jun 06, 1999; ... SUNDERLAND manager Peter Reid has been chosen to replace thereluctantly-departing Peter Taylor as the England Under-21 coach.Taylor's successful three-year reign ends after Tuesday's EuropeanChampionship qualifier in Bulgaria and the appointment of Reid, whowill continue to manage ...
Soccer - European Championship: Stoichkov swan-song makes task harder Owen Slot believes Bulgaria will be fired up for their veteran striker's farewell
Jun 06, 1999; ... TIME is running out for Kevin Keegan's England. The chances of qualifying automaticallyin first place have evaporated. The opportunities to collect enoughpoints to go through to the play-offs are thin on the ground too.Bulgaria on Wednesday is now a huge game. If England do ...
Soccer - European Championship: Honeymoon over for Keegan as Swedish jinx strikes again Scholes sent off as Euro 2000 dream recedes
Jun 06, 1999; ... NOW England are struggling to qualify for the play-offs, nevermind the finals, of Euro 2000. Having failed miserably yesterday toovercome Sweden for the eighth time in succession, they must beatBulgaria in Sofia on Wednesday to retain any realistic hope ofpipping Poland for second place, ...
Soccer - European Championship: Manager attempts to talk up positive
Jun 06, 1999; ... THE honeymoon over, Kevin Keegan has to sit down and address the problems of settling down to a normal relationshipbetween an England manager and his team: struggling to qualify,underperforming, hamstrung by hamstrings. The way Keegan confronted the paucity of his side's ...
Soccer - European Championship: Gung-ho hosts suffer as Scholes loses his head Steve Curry says that such a conspicuous lack of self-control must reflect on the style of the manager
Jun 06, 1999; ... He stood impassively through the National Anthem but inside PaulScholes was wound up like a coiled spring and when the whistle blewat Wembley yesterday, he should have lasted just 15 seconds. In fact, he stayed for 51 minutes before joining the infamouslistof players who have ...
Mandrake: Slavica puts to sea
Jun 06, 1999; ... MOTOR racing may be the saucy sport of the moment - witness DavidCoulthard's canoodle with Zara Phillips and Jacques Villeneuve'stangle with Dannii Minogue - but the richest woman in the businesshas decided she would rather spend a little less time moochingaroundthe ...
Mandrake: Blenheim to get a Pizza Express
Jun 06, 1999; ... FACED with the mother of all rewiring bills for Blenheim Palace,the Duke of Marlborough is being prompted by his son, Lord EdwardSpencer Churchill, into setting up a pizza restaurant in thegrounds.Edward, 24, is perfectly placed to arrange this ground-breakingdevelopment for what is ...
Mandrake: Bad trip
Jun 06, 1999; ... BY the time Channel 4 screens its documentary on Jonathan Aitkennext Sunday, the former Tory Cabinet minister is likely to beenjoying less comfortable surroundings at one of Her Majesty'sprisons (he is due to be sentenced at the Old Bailey on Tuesday).But his fellow inmates ...
Mandrake: Clerical error
Jun 06, 1999; ... THE Princess of Wales's mother, Frances Shand Kydd, has becomeembroiled in a scandal at St Columba's Cathedral, Oban, her localchurch in Scotland. She has sided against the church's presentincumbent, Father MacDonald, on account of a recent sermon duringwhich he advised his outraged ...
Mandrake: Mum's the word
Jun 06, 1999; ... THAT fine actor Tom Courtenay tells me he is writing his memoirs,but they will disappoint those looking forward to revelations abouthis days as a Sixties Lothario (Felicity Kendal and Natalie Woodwereamong his conquests). No, the star of such films as Billy Liar and Dr Zhivago ...
Mandrake: Hats off
Jun 06, 1999; ... ROYAL Ascot is not an event likely to be pencilled into thediaries of Kosovo's refugees, but some may soon find themselvesfullyequipped to attend: a plan is afoot among London's ladies who lunchto ship out a cargo of Ascot hats to boost morale on the borders. A gaggle of ...
Mandrake: Coe ready to take Anne's Olympic place
Jun 06, 1999; ... RUMOURS are rife that Princess Anne may not be Britain'srepresentative on the International Olympic Committee for muchlonger. Ever since the Salt Lake City scandal, IOC members have beendropping like flies and the Princess Royal was herself cross enoughto write to the committee telling ...
THE WEATHER: Whipping up a storm over downpours
Jun 06, 1999; ... "THUNDERSTORM" is one of those words which are no longer goodenough for the tabloid newspapers, sports commentators, or some ofour television and radio news reporters. We simply cannot have an ordinary thunderstorm these days withoutit being called a "freak electrical storm" ....
International: Poles greet Pope on `last tour home' Government orders that nothing must be allowed to offend the frail pontiff, report Francis Harris and Krzysztof Leski
Jun 06, 1999; ... THE POPE began what may be his last tour of his native Polandyesterday when he arrived in Gdansk, where the democracy movementthat he inspired launched its assault on communism. Despite his frail health, the 79-year-old pontiff is undertakingastrenuous 13-day programme of ...
International: No sympathy or surgery for a pilgrim's painful progress Letter from Spain
Jun 06, 1999; ... THE agony peaked somewhere off the coast of France. The slowexcruciating throb that had begun in the base of my tooth nowpoundedthrough my head. It was the same tooth that had sent me scurrying toan emergency dentist in Jerusalem last year, the same tooth that hadreduced me to a ...
International: Briton's death casts a shadow across the `Mild West' Hardships of the trail have given way to fine wine and luxury, but America's dude ranches are not risk-free, reports James Langton in Lost Valley, Colorado
Jun 06, 1999; ... THE posse of cowboys comes to a halt on the banks of a ragingtorrent in the Colorado pine forest. Their leader is young and fullof determination. "Get up," he urges the weary group. "We gotourselves a trail to blaze." Minutes later the horses are plunginginto the icy waters of Goose ...
International: Paris tunnel escapists face a dark future
Jun 06, 1999; ... MEMBERS of France's ultimate sub-culture - pallid youths whospendtheir nights revelling in the maze of tunnels 100 feet below Paris -fear that police curbs will cut them off from their secretunderworld. For years, the cataphiles - several hundred tunnel enthusiastswhotake ...