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The Northampton second-row has been waiting patiently for his chance to start for England and is ready to rampage tomorrow It would be a fitting tribute if England could mark the passing of one of their greatest rugby men with a stirring win over the Wallabies. Andy Ripley really was a man in a billion, an inspiration even to those who never saw him rampaging around Twickenham in his prime. That the English game has not produced a more thrillingly athletic forward before or since simply magnifies the huge sense of loss. Not once did the concept of damage limitation enter Ripley’s Corinthian soul, an approach the modern-day England side could do worse than embrace. Maybe Martin Johnson has arrived at the same conclusion, hence the belated decision to select Courtney Lawes for his first Test start. If there is a new age giant out there capable of generating an equal frisson with ball in hand as his head-banded, hippie-loving predecessor, the 21-year-old Lawes could just be the man. Theoretically Lawes is supposed to be a second-row, all grunt and close-quarter grind. Yet England also need ball carriers capable of knocking opponents backwards and blasting holes in the defensive line for their support runners to exploit. Eighteen months ago the word was already on the grapevine that Northampton had unearthed a gem with a spectacular mix of muscularity and momentum. And then nothing. Picked in England’s autumn squad the pretender has had to wait an intensely frustrating nine months for a start. If he has a stormer tomorrow, Lawes can justly claim to have fought his coaches’ innate conservatism and won. The player is aching to have a crack. The shy lad of last autumn, whose confidence slipped away either side of Christmas as he stumbled between the two stools of thwarted national ambition and club graft, has been replaced by a 6ft 7in tall, 18st hard nut, determined to reach out and seize the day. “I definitely feel ready. I feel very confident in myself and I’ve got a lot of support from the boys and the coaches. I was a little disappointed not to play during the Six Nations and lost my form a bit. But that’s fine if you pick yourself up again, which I have done. I’m looking to make an impact throughout the game: win my lineouts, make my tackles and get the ball in hand as much as possible.” There is a physical edge to Lawes that suggests he will be more than prepared to stand toe to toe with the experienced Nathan Sharpe and Rocky Elsom who, along with David Pocock, dominated the contact areas in Perth. There is already sufficient evidence of Lawes’s tackling strength to make opponents think twice and his capacity for punishment is bottomless. “I’ve never been too concerned about my body, to be honest,” he said this week. “I like making big tackles but so do most people. They’re pretty satisfying but I’m not a dirty player. If they want to get under my skin that’s fair enough. I’ll just try and hurt them legally.” If he speaks with the zeal of a relatively late convert it is because mini-rugby passed him by. Hailing from an Anglo-Jamaican background, he grew up in Northampton after his father, Linford, moved the family from Hackney when Courtney was four. Home was a few hundred yards from Franklin’s Gardens and he used to accompany his dad, a bouncer at a local pub, to martial arts training. Only in his teens at Northampton School for Boys did he sample rugby, eventually joining the Old Scouts club, which also produced Ben Cohen and Steve Thompson. A Northampton club stalwart, Lennie Newman, recalls going to watch his own son play and being deeply impressed by a gangling 17-year-old in the same team. “I remember thinking ‘Blimey, this guy is big’ but he was good as well. There was something special about him, and his physical size gave him that edge.” Winning the man-of-the-match award against Munster last October, when he stood firm against the Irish Lions Paul O’Connell and Donncha O’Callaghan, was another significant milestone yet Johnson, perhaps recalling how he felt when he was lobbed into international rugby as a 22-year-old, was determined not to rush him. But Simon Shaw will be 37 in September and time is pressing. Lawes, who can also operate on the blindside flank, is visibly delighted to be escaping bench duty. “You’ve got enough time to really make a difference in a game … you can do a lot more in 80 minutes than you can in 15. Playing against good sides also makes you raise your game and you can see how far you have to push yourself.” Lawes, in short, has the big-match appetite and the temperament necessary at this level. His appropriately long arms have earned him the name “Spider” but the Wallabies offer a physical and a mental test. “The more I can learn the better I’m going to get. I’ve got a bit wiser. I know how to get into the game and make a bigger impact. I know where to go to make the tackles and where to get the ball. It’s been a tough tour but we’re ready.” Ripley never had a koi carp tattooed on one arm or Maori tribal markings on the other but he would have admired the unflinching young dude hoping to create a little lawful disorder tomorrow. England rugby union team Rugby union Australia rugby union team Robert Kitson guardian.co.uk
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Alberto Undiano’s decision to send off Germany’s Miroslav Klose against Serbia was harsh. Anyone for netball? Miroslav Klose is the man who saves his best for the world stage. Impotent for Bayern Munich over the course of this past season, the striker flicked the switch in Germany’s opening group game against Australia, scoring his 11th goal at World Cup finals to close in on the Brazilian Ronaldo’s record of 15. Onwards and upwards, everyone predicted, with Germany widely fancied. Yet he and his team were stopped brutally in their tracks here. Klose’s red card was one of those moments that had eyes widening and mouths opening all around the stadium. Already on a booking for a trip on Branislav Ivanovic, as the Serb had burst out of defence, Klose’s challenge on Dejan Stankovic was nothing more than a nibble at ankles. Yes, it was a foul, but a second yellow card? Stanovic was not about to spark a Serbian attack and there was certainly nothing nasty in Klose’s intent. But you knew that the referee Alberto Undiano was going to do it by the way that he rushed in. • Follow the Guardian’s World Cup team on Twitter • Sign up to play our great Fantasy Football game • Stats centre: Get the lowdown on every player • The latest team-by-team news, features and more The Spaniard had possibly made a rod for his own back by dishing out five yellow cards in the first 32 minutes but his application of the strictest letter of the law drew gasps. The Germany players, it ought to be said, were commendably restrained in their protests. What will they make of the decision at the referees’ headquarters in Pretoria? Each of the four-strong teams of officials from the various nations are based there and, after every performance, there is an extensive debrief involving them all. Could it be that the furore over Cristiano Ronaldo’s call for greater protection had an influence? The consensus here was that if Klose’s second card were merited, football would be entering the realms of non-contact sports. Anyone for netball? The World Cup had so far been notable for an absence of controversy. Undiano appeared keen to compensate and, as he continued to keep the whistle to his lips in the second half, so the blood pressure of the Germany manager, Jogi Löw, rose. At full time, Löw marched straight off down the tunnel, gesturing angrily. The dismissal shaped the game, although it should not detract from an encouraging performance from Serbia, whose football was compact, committed and laced with no little enterprise. Their three starting midfielders held a narrow line, with the captain, Stankovic, in the middle, ever available for the short ball out of defence. On the flanks, Milos Krasic and the new Liverpool signing Milan Jovanovic impressed, Krasic particularly so. The CSKA Moscow winger is a summer transfer target for Juventus and he would have added to his value. His crosses and trickery were a delight. Serbia sometimes offer the impression that their finger is never far from the self-destruct button. The vital penalty that Zdravko Kuzmanovic conceded for handball in their opening game defeat against Ghana was utterly needless and Nemanja Vidic, inexplicably, aped his team-mate to concede another one. Mercifully for Serbia, Vladimir Stojkovic saved Lukas Podolski’s 60th minute kick. Germany showed great character with 10 men and Löw the boldness to chase the game with attacking substitutions. But his players, as they diced with conceding a second on the counter, could not fashion the equaliser. Löw was keen not to turn his team’s final group game, against Ghana on Wednesday, into a drama. Thanks in part to Undiano, he has been denied his wish. Germany Serbia World Cup 2010 Group D World Cup 2010 David Hytner guardian.co.uk
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• Former Kangaroos’ scrum-half resigns from Paramatta Eels • Also lost New South Wales job and newspaper column Andrew Johns has lost his third job inside a week as a result of the racial slur that was exposed in the build-up to Wednesday’s State of Origin match. Timana Tahu, the Parramatta Eels centre who walked out of the New South Wales camp in protest at Johns’s racist comment about the Queensland centre Greg Inglis, revealed that the former Australia and Warrington scrum-half has now resigned from his consultancy role with the Eels. Johns resigned from his role on the New South Wales coaching staff last weekend, and has also lost his regular column with the Sydney Daily Telegraph. He has been backed by the Channel Nine television and Triple M radio networks, both of whom will continue to employ him, but the Newcastle Knights are still considering whether to retain him in a similar consultancy role to the one he had at Parramatta. Johns has also been asked to have a mediation session with Tahu, a former Newcastle team-mate, by Australia’s human rights and equal opportunity commissioner, Mick Gooda. Rugby league Andy Wilson guardian.co.uk
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• Hape inspired by ferocious State of Origin game • ‘We can all play better than we did last week,’ he says England’s former rugby league star Shontayne Hape has been fired up to face Australia ever since watching Queensland’s ferocious State Of Origin victory over New South Wales on Wednesday. The Maroons clinched their fifth straight series win after a feisty clash in Brisbane that featured an all-in brawl, an alleged headbutt and numerous punch-ups as passions spilled over. Hape, the former New Zealand league international who will win his second England Test cap tomorrow, has been inspired by the Origin showdown to improve on a disappointing debut. England were too slow out of the blocks in Perth last week as Australia raced into an early 14-0 lead on their way to a 27-17 victory. “I was a bit nervous playing my first Test but with that out of the way I am just looking to put things right, to aim up this week and try to get a win,” said Hape. “I watched the Origin game in the week and that is what we want to bring on Saturday, some fire in our bellies.” The Wallabies were convinced that Martin Johnson would replace Hape with Jonny Wilkinson at inside centre with the aim of improving England’s kicking game and distribution. Hape’s all-round contribution was disappointing but it did not help that England’s game lacked any dynamism as they failed to capitalise on a dominant scrum performance. “Every one of us looked at our individual performance and we can all play better than we did last week,” said Hape. “We just hope we can build on last week’s game. “The forwards did some great work but they did get carried away and we have to talk to them a bit more. Hopefully we can get the backs a bit more ball and try to score some tries. We need to finish off our chances.” England’s captain, Lewis Moody, detected an “air of nervousness” in the changing room before last weekend’s defeat and he believes that contributed to England making such a slow start in Perth. But the inclusion of the Leicester scrum-half Ben Youngs and Northampton’s lock Courtney Lawes, who will both make their first Test starts, has helped inject fresh enthusiasm into the side. And Moody is confident England will come out all guns blazing tomorrow. “After the warm-up tomorrow I will sit down with the lads and make sure everyone is in the right place prior to the game,” he said. “We have been through the situation now when we did have that angst and nervousness which made the first 40 minutes tough. “Ben Youngs and Courtney have come in. They are very talented and excitable young guys and that enthusiasm can spread, which is great. I am excitable at the best of times so when they are excited it is even better.” England rugby union team Australia rugby union team Rugby union guardian.co.uk
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The Bradford-born brothers are on opposite sides in Sunday’s derby and for the first time in years Karl’s Wigan are favourites Leon Pryce believes St Helens are underdogs for Super League derby at Wigan for the first time in his five years with the club, and puts that largely down to Michael Maguire – the Australian coach who has also revived the career of his younger brother, Karl. Despite a Pryce-inspired win against Huddersfield last Friday, Saints are six points behind Wigan, who are aiming to clinch their first league double over their local rivals since 2003. “In the past we’ve always been favourites against them, but this time it’s different,” said Pryce, who joined St Helens from Bradford in 2006. “They’re top of the league and they’ve already beaten us at our place this season. The impact that Maguire has made is obvious. You know when a team is being coached well, and it’s pretty evident with Wigan.” Karl Pryce has been one of the main beneficiaries. The huge 23-year-old three-quarter had endured a nightmare three years since leaving Bradford for rugby union with Gloucester in the autumn of 2006, suffering a serious foot injury that ruined his hopes of successfully switching codes, and continued to trouble him for 12 months after he had returned to league with Wigan. Even last year, he made only four Super League starts. But he knuckled down under Maguire’s infamously tough pre-season training programme, and since being called into the first team in March he has scored 11 tries from seven appearances – four of them against the Crusaders in Wrexham, and a hat-trick at Wakefield last Sunday. “I’m really pleased for him,” his elder brother said. “He just needs to keep his head down and work hard for Maguire, who seems to be the sort of coach who demands high standards all the time. To be honest you can play a lot of years in the Super League and coaches like Maguire who know the game inside out don’t come around very often. Karl’s still young with a hell of lot of time to play, and he can achieve great things.” The Pryce brothers still live near their parents in Bradford and remain in regular touch – on Wednesday night Leon took his two young children around for their regular trip to see their uncle Karl. They have played against each other twice, after Leon had moved to St Helens and left Karl at Bradford, but never in a Wigan-Saints derby – and Karl is still waiting for his first win. “It’s going to be tricky for mum, knowing who to support,” he said. “But I won’t treat Leon any different because he’s my brother – he’s just another body to run over.” Saints have James Graham and James Roby returning from international duty but their coach, Mick Potter, has denied suggestions that Kyle Eastmond may make a surprise return from his ankle injury. Wigan, who are hoping for a 21,000 crowd, have a major injury doubt over their England loose forward Sean O’Loughlin, who suffered a thigh strain at Wakefield, his second game in 24 hours. Wigan Warriors Rugby league St Helens Super League Andy Wilson guardian.co.uk
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For Germany, the damage may be only superficial. They will still confidently expect to clamber safely out of Group D but they have now been shown as fallible when the perception was previously that, when it comes to the World Cup, there is no side who are better prepared or more clear-eyed about their objectives. After swatting aside Australia with almost contemptuous ease in their opening match, Germany were beaten here by a 38th-minute goal from Milan Jovanovic, newly of Liverpool, and the failure of Lukas Podolski to score from the penalty spot after Nemanja Vidic’s handball on the hour. The result ends a run of five consecutive World Cup defeats for Serbia and, in the process, represents the biggest shock of the competition to date bar Switzerland’s victory over Spain. • Follow the Guardian’s World Cup team on Twitter • Sign up to play our great Fantasy Football game • Stats centre: Get the lowdown on every player • The latest team-by-team news, features and more There is now considerable pressure on Germany going into their final match against Ghana when Joachim Löw’s side will be missing their most prolific striker Miroslav Klose, who was sent off in a match that will mark the name of Alberto Undiano into every black book of every student of refereeing demonology. The Spanish official brandished 11 red cards in 17 games in La Liga last season and his performance here marked him down as a referee other teams in this competition will want to avoid. In total, he showed his yellow card nine times and that actually seemed conservative given the rate at which he was reaching for his pocket in the first half. In that period there were seven, two of which went to Klose to leave Germany a man down for 64 minutes of an eccentric and entertaining match. The protests from Germany were long and vociferous but, in both cases, Klose was guilty of taking down a player when they had run away from him, even if there was no malice in either challenge. The first came after 12 minutes when Branislav Ivanovic burst out of defence. Klose, chasing back to make the tackle, clipped his opponent’s heels, at least with a degree of cynicism. After that, the striker was as culpable of naivety as well as poor tackling because it was soon obvious that Undiano was not going to show leniency to anyone. After 36 minutes, the Serbia captain, Dejan Stankovic, got a yard away from Klose, and as the Bayern Munich player extended one of his legs to try to prod the ball away he caught his opponent’s heel. The damage was exacerbated two minutes later when Milos Krasic’s cross was knocked down by Nikola Zigic for Jovanovic to turn in the game’s decisive moment. In the circumstances, an argument could be made that Germany acquitted themselves well, putting together a number of scoring chances after the interval. Unfortunately for them, this was a day when Podolski’s finishing was encapsulated by his weak effort from the penalty spot and a late onslaught came to nothing. World Cup 2010 Group D Germany Serbia World Cup 2010 Daniel Taylor guardian.co.uk
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• Final round of matches considered high-risk • Fifa says betting on throw-ins and bookings harder to track The final round of World Cup group stage matches are most at risk to match-fixing and will be closely scrutinised by to ensure they are totally clean, Fifa has said. Every match in the tournament is monitored by the Early Warning System that detects irregular betting patterns. But Marco Villiger, Fifa’s legal director, told a media briefing it keeps a particularly close eye on high-risk games which complete the first round at the finals. The top two advance from each of the eight first-round groups of four, and by the time teams play their final group match some have already clinched a second-round place while others know they have no chance of qualifying for the knockout stages. “These are the high-risk matches from a betting perspective,” said Villiger. “Match-fixing is the biggest threat facing football at the moment and there is a big risk in the last group matches, especially if a team is involved which has already qualified, or is already out. “We use our all our means to focus on those who have already qualified or are out. The question is, are these high-risk matches and the answer is yes, they are.” Fifa informed every national association, player, coach, delegation member and referee before the start of the tournament that they would watch out for irregular or illegal betting patterns. “I would not believe the World Cup could be a target for the betting mafia but in the meantime we have to be prepared that even the World Cup could be, not just lower-league matches.” A telephone hotline has been set up so that anyone involved in a match – players, coaches or referees – approached by a third party offering them money or a bribe for betting or match-fixing can inform Fifa in confidence immediately. “The threat is here,” said Villiger, “but we’re working closely with our colleagues at Uefa, with Interpol, with 400 bookmakers around the world, to do all we can to keep the game clean.” He added that live betting – for example when bets are placed on the first throw-in or yellow card at a match – was harder to track. “For this World Cup we are focusing much more on the investigative part of betting. We have international co-operation with Interpol and we have a number of informants who provide us with high-level information.” So far Fifa has not detected any signs of irregular betting at the finals but it is not resting on its laurels. “The World Cup, the Euros, the Champions League, other big tournaments are always vulnerable to the betting syndicates. We are binding all our forces together to fight this threat.” World Cup 2010 Fifa guardian.co.uk
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All-female, British-backed driving team line up alongside men for debut in Ramallah event When Suna Aweidah pulls on her red overalls and slips behind the wheel of her car next Friday, she will empty her mind of everything but the race ahead. But there will be an indelible nugget of pride that she and her team, the Speed Sisters, are breaking through the traditional conservatism of Palestinian society to compete in a motor racing event on an equal basis with men. As she eases her Opel Corsa on to the Ramallah race track, she will block out the yells of “Suna , yallah!” (Let’s go!), and focus on the map of the course she has memorised and the techniques she has learned at the hands of British instructors. “When I’m racing, I feel freedom. I love speed. When I’m on the track I can break the rules,” she says. The Speed Sisters comprise eight women, aged 18 to 39, Muslim and Christian, and are starting to grab attention, practical backing and the adoration of the crowds on what is unsurprisingly a male-dominated motor racing circuit. Friday’s race, the biggest that the female racers have participated in, will be their first both as a team and since undergoing two days of intensive training in the West Bank by two British instructors. Men and women compete on an equal basis but, Aweidah says, the men have more expensive, modified cars giving them an advantage. Aweidah now has a dedicated car in which to race, but for years relied on the loan of spare vehicles from a local supportive car rental firm, Dallah. And a supporter has donated an old BMW for team training and racing. The women have the backing of the British consulate in East Jerusalem, which has invested about £6,500 in suits, helmets, training and revamping the BMW. “They aren’t just a positive role model for women, but for all Palestinians,” said consulate spokeswoman Karen McLuskie. “They are really inspiring in a conflict zone where fun is low on the priority list.” For team captain Aweidah, Friday’s race will be the high point – so far – of her struggle to fulfil her ambition to be a racing driver. She has wanted to be behind a wheel since she was a girl watching ordinary drivers in her home town of Beit Hanina in East Jerusalem. “I love driving. I love cars. It’s in my blood – it’s stronger than me,” she says. When the Palestinian Motor Sport Federation was established in 2005, Aweidah hoped to be able to participate in races. But her family was reluctant. A year later she was invited to a women-only go-kart competition in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. “I told my family, I insist on going. We have no go-karts in the West Bank, I had only ever seen a picture of one. I had no idea how to drive one, or what the rules were.” Aweidah came sixth in a field of 18. Her family grew more supportive. Her first race in the West Bank was in 2006. To her astonishment, she found two other women participating. “The men racers found it strange, but they said OK, let them come. After a while they saw how we drive, that we proved ourselves, and they were OK. We started asking them for tips on driving – like when to use the handbrake.” Most of her friends were supportive. “Some said we’re proud of you because you do what we can’t. Some of my married friends would like to race but their husbands won’t allow it. But some women said this is a man’s sport.” With the British consulate’s encouragement, the female drivers finally formed a team. British trainers and former competitors Helen Elstrop and Sue Sanders spent last weekend, courtesy of the consulate, building on the women’s basic driving skills and mental preparation for racing. “The strength of character they’ve shown, not only on the track but in their lives in general, is phenomenal,” says Elstrop. She was surprised to discover how positive and supportive the “boys” were. “They want to see the girls compete at a higher level.” The women, she says, were “like sponges” in the training sessions. “They are astounding, a phenomenal set of girls. We are definitely sisters in speed.” The youngest of the team is Marah Zahalka, 18, a business student at Bir Zeit University whose mother is a driving instructor. Another team-member, Mona Ennab, 24, is supported at races by her mother and aunts dressed in traditional Palestinian dress. Betty Saadeh, 29, comes from a racing family: her father was a rally champion in Mexico and her brother was the 2009 autocross champion in the West Bank. Aweidah – who lives with her parents and two of her siblings, and works for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency – says the success and acceptance of the Speed Sisters is an indication of progress in Palestinian society. “It’s getting easier for Palestinian women to do the things they want, not only in sport but in all life. Palestinian women are proving themselves more and more.” She hopes one day to be able to represent Palestine in competitions abroad. “And to have our own state here so we could invite other countries to compete with us.” But for now, she is focusing on next Friday, and where that might lead. “We’re on the first step still but – inshallah – we will reach the stars.” Palestinian territories Gender Motor sport Harriet Sherwood guardian.co.uk
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