Three female suicide bombers kill scores in Nigeria

Wearing traditional northern Nigerian dresses and long Muslim headscarves, three women in the last week have detonated suicide bombs in the city of Kano

       Members of the bomb squad inspect a petrol station after the bombing in Kano, Nigeria

A woman blew herself up at a petrol station in northern Nigeria on Monday, killing three people in one of three suicide bombings by females in Kano in two days.The woman was in line with other women, all wearing traditional northern Nigerian dresses and long Muslim headscarves, waiting to buy kerosene for cooking when she set off the bomb, said Tijjani Isa, an attendant at the station.

"I was nearby the queue when I heard a heavy loud (noise)," he said. "And immediately saw people running while others went down." The suicide bombing was one of five attacks in Kano in two days, said police spokesman Musa Magaji Majia.

Mourinho desperates to sell Fernando Torres

Stamford Bridge club may be forced to sell goalkeeper Petr Cech if they cannot find buyer for cut-price Spanish flop 

                        Torres (left) will be going if a buyer can be found after the return of Drogba

Jose Mourinho has admitted that he will have to get rid of one of his foreign players as Chelsea desperately try to find a buyer for Fernando Torres.The return of Didier Drogba means Chelsea’s anticipated first-team squad has one too many foreign players under Premier League and Champions League rules relating to the home-grown quota.

Clubs can only name 17 foreign players over the age of 21 in their official 25-man squads and Chelsea have 18 overseas stars who are realistically vying for those places.Mourinho, the Chelsea manager, wants to offload £50 million flop Torres, but clubs are being put off by the £20 million asking price and the Spaniard’s £175,000-a-week wages.Chelsea hope that Atlético Madrid may take Torres back, while Monaco are understood to have looked at his situation in case Radamel Falcao leaves.

Louis van Gaal's focus on technique and tactics changes mindset of Manchester United's players

Under the charismatic Dutchman the change in attitude among the squad has been remarkable

At one stage of last season, the difficulties experienced by Manchester United under David Moyes led to a joke doing the rounds that it was because the headmaster – Sir Alex Ferguson – had been replaced by a supply teacher.
It was a harsh appraisal of Moyes, but results and performances did little to help the Scot confound his critics and United's downward spiral ultimately led to the inevitable dismissal of the former Everton manager.
One inescapable conclusion of the Moyes reign was that the players never really bought into the manager's methods.
He did not challenge them enough, they became restless and, like any unruly classroom led by a supply teacher, the players lost interest and performances deteriorated as a result.
But under Louis van Gaal, the change in attitude among the squad has been remarkable.
If Moyes was a supply teacher, Van Gaal is the university professor accustomed to dealing with the very best and making them even better.

No Mo Farah but Hampden Park roars for hapless Rosefelo Siosi

Hapless 5,000m runner from Solomon Islands is cheered all the way home by 40,000 crowd as England's Adam Gemili qualifies fastest from 100m heats with 10.15sec

      Not so lonely long-distance runner: Rosefelo Siosi had 40,000 people cheering him to the finish line in Glasgow

They came expecting Mo Farah, and were rewarded instead by the strange but stirring spectacle of a lone straggler from the Solomon Islands. If the 40,000 vociferous fans at Hampden Park were dismayed at being denied the one transcendent star of the 5,000 metres – and Usain Bolt in the 100m heats, for that matter – they concealed it brilliantly, as last man Rosefelo Siosi completed his two final laps entirely tout seul, to be assailed by a crescendo of noise that would have embarrassed Eric the Eel.

All the finest sporting spectaculars have a habit of yielding a heroic also-ran like Siosi. At the Sydney Olympics it was, of course, the Eel, otherwise known as Eric Moussambani from Equatorial Guinea, a swimmer so hysterically underqualified that he completed the 100m freestyle in a time slower than the world record for 200m.

Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert wants to sign Chelsea winger Victor Moses on loan for the season

Paul Lambert keen to offer Victor Moses a fresh start in at Aston Villa as he bids to further strengthen his squad

     Target man: Aston Villa are hoping Victor Moses will lead them to the promised land of Premier League survival

Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert has made a move for Chelsea winger Victor Moses and will step up his bid to sign Ki Sung-yueng this week. Lambert is keen to sign Moses on loan for the season and is waiting for a response from Jose Mourinho. Moses, 23, will be allowed out for another season despite his struggles at Liverpool and Lambert is keen to offer him a fresh start in the West Midlands as he bids to further strengthen his squad.

However, the Nigeria international is also a target for Everton, Newcastle United, former club Crystal Palace, West Ham United and West Bromwich Albion and the final decision will rest with Mourinho.
After his lack of opportunities at Anfield, Chelsea are determined to ensure Moses’s next move is the right one and Mourinho will assess the merits of every club.