Malbranque plays safe
Saddlers sack Broadhurst
Grandstand finish
- Despite an unimpressive display, Fulham ensure their Premiership safety with a fortunate 1-0 against Wigan Athletic at Craven Cottage.
Steed Malbranque scores the only goal just before to break but the Cottagers are indebted to a superb performance by keeper Antti Niemi.
Fulham boss Chris Coleman was more concerned with the result though: “If we were lucky to get three points, I couldn’t give a monkey’s. We’re at the point of the season where we need points. We were booed off at half-time and rightly so.”
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- Relegated Walsall sack manager Kevan Broadhurst.
Saturday’s 3-1 defeat by Huddersfield Town at the Bescot Stadium confirmed their second relegation in three years. The Saddlers return to the basement division for the first time since 1995.
Broadhurst, who took over in February following the departure of Paul Merson, oversaw a crucial run of eight games without a win.
Veteran midfielder Mark Kinsella will take charge of the final two games of the season.
- BBC TV’s flagship Saturday afternoon sports programme Grandstand is to be axed after 48 years.
It is thought BBC executives believe Grandstand is associated with the past rather than the modern digital era.
The mass market of football supporters is also now more likely to follow Sky Sports’ cult football-dedicated Soccer Saturday programme.
Founding editor Sir Paul Fox agrees with the decision: “It comes from another era and I think it was high time that it came to an end, quite frankly.”
Grandstand, which was first screened on 11 October 1958, will be fazed out by 2009 but the popular Saturday lunchtime Football Focus programme is likely to continue in its present format.
- It is announced that Manchester United owner Malcolm Glazer has been released from hospital after suffering a stroke.
He was admitted to Cleveland Clinic in Florida on 16 April after suffering the attack and is still suffering from impaired speech and a lack of mobility in his right arm and leg.
A statement released by his son Joel reveals: “Doctors expect his condition to improve with rehabilitation.”
The 78-year-old American billionaire bought the club for £790million last summer.
United are quick to reassure supporters that Mr Glazer’s illness will have little effect on the day-to-day running of events at Old Trafford.
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