Arsenal and Spurs unite following ugly chants

2011-10-04

By Mike Collett

ARSENALand Tottenham Hotspur have put their intense on-field rivalry to one side by taking the unusual step of issuing a joint statement condemning the chants of some of their supporters at Sunday’s north London derby at White Hart Lane.

Arsenal fans were offensive towards their former striker Emmanuel Adebayor who now plays for Spurs, mocking the gun attack on his Togo team bus during last year’s African Nations Cup tournament in Angola which left three members of the Togo party dead.

The Arsenal fans chanted: “It should have been you, it should have been you, killed in Angola, it should have been you.”

Spurs fans targeted Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger with their own offensive insult as they have done for much of the last decade.

Ferrer flattens Nishikori in Tokyo

2011-10-04

Spain’s David Ferrer produced a clinical 6-4 6-3 victory over local hope Kei Nishikori to reach the last 16 of the Japan Open on Tuesday.

Third seed Ferrer had lost his only previous meeting with Nishikori at the 2008 U.S. Open but slammed the door quickly on the Japanese number one under floodlights on a chilly Tokyo evening.

Fierce pressure from 2007 Japan Open champion Ferrer took its toll on Nishikori, who dumped a simple backhand into the net from mid-court to surrender the first set.

Ferrer, who has won in Auckland and Acapulco this year, wrapped up a comfortable win in an hour and 29 minutes with another huge forehand too hot for Nishikori to handle.

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‘Will it change anything?” public asks

2011-10-04

 

THE PUBLIC was captivated yesterday, glued to their TV and radio sets to watch Polys Polyviou report on the political responsibility of the Mari blast. 

Shopkeepers and strollers on Ledra Street had already started formulating opinions on the report by early afternoon. 

“We already knew the President was responsible,” a passer-by said with his friend quickly adding: “This is no news to us.” 

“The President has come out looking a bit of a liar,” shopkeeper Lia Loizidou said adding that President Demetris Christofias was aware of the cargo’s danger though he claimed the opposite. 

But Loizidou thought that Polyviou should have named more individuals. 

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Mari probe: President is blamed for blast

2011-10-04

PRESIDENT Demetris Christofias yesterday rejected the findings of civilian probe which holds him “personally and institutionally responsible” for the blast at Mari naval base that killed 13 people.

As crowds gathered outside the Presidential Palace demanding his resignation, Christofias convened a meeting of his Cabinet at an alternative location – his personal residence in Engomi, Nicosia. At the end of the meeting ministers expressed their full support for Christofias.

At the Presidential Palace demonstration, Popi Christoforou, the mother of the twin sailors killed in the blast, voiced her frustration with the President: 

Our View: Polyviou report was unprecedented from start to finish

2011-10-04

WHEN in July the Council of Ministers appointed the well-respected lawyer Polys Polyviou as a one-man committee to investigate the political responsibilities for the Mari blast, it was taking an unprecedented step. It was voluntarily putting the cabinet and the President of the Republic under investigation, something that had never before happened in Cyprus.

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