Leaks United update

Football - After all that posturing and ranting, it seems that Dennis Wise's assertion that the 'Leeds United leak suspect' would never play for Leeds again, was slightly ahead of its time. Leeds Chief executive Shaun Harvey has suggested the player responsible for leaking their team line-up to Crystal Palace before Saturday's game may not be sacked after all as they continue to hunt for the culprit. Manager Dennis Wise vowed that the player would never play for the club again in a furious post-match outburst following Leeds' 2-1 win, but no player has owned up as yet despite several appeals from the manager. The club have now decided to soften their stance, saying a final decision on punishment would depend on the context of the culprit's actions. Harvey confirmed it was Palace manager Peter Taylor who had informed Wise that Leeds team news had been passed on to him before the game on Saturday. Taylor has since accused Wise of "badly over-reacting", while Palace chairman Simon Jordan claimed the whole episode illustrated that the former Wimbledon and Chelsea midfielder had no control over the Elland Road dressing room. What a surprise. The big question now is how much of a berk had Wise made of himself in the eyes of his own players? He might have been attempting to uphold a strongly held principle but the old addage of 'Act in haste, repent at leisure' springs to mind. The trial continues - it may not have any witnesses or evidence but it does have the benefit of an enormous, uninformed jury aided high on hearsay, conjecture and second hand information.

isporty wants to know whether you've ever seen Dennis Wise maintain his temper? If so, pleased let us know so we know how to deal with him when he comes round here threatening too lose it again.

Baby? Vroom!

Athletics - Marathon champion Pauline Radish returned to running less than an hour after giving birth to her daughter, she revealed yesterday. Radish, who had baby Ian on January 17 after a gruelling 27-hour labour, said: "The doctors were dead against it but I felt like I'd been lying around long enough so I did my first jog after 12 minutes and since then I've been running alternate hours." Doctors today attempted to get her to calm down, put her feet up and enjoy this precious time with her baby but Radish was half way round the hospital grounds by this stage and had to be lured into a nearby athletics stadium where they threw a big net over her.

isporty would like to know if you have any overly-obsessed sporting pals. What do they do that makes you think they're obsessed? Or are you, yourself, in danger of being carted off to the isporty funny farm for athletic crimes against humanity. Let us know, we're interested in this sort of thing...

Who do you think you are?

Football - Bayern Munich supremo Percival Lancet has today launched a scathing attack on David Beckham's wife Victoria. Lancet is still fuming over Beckham's decision to move to LA Galaxy in the summer a switch he believes was manufactured by Victoria. And the ex-Germany international has described Posh as "the death of football". Lancet said: "I like David Beckham very much but not his wife, I can't stand the bitch. Such people are the death of the football and Beckham is a product of these people. It's bad that he must now go to Hollywood. He is actually a highly-gifted player but his wife should go back to singing through a liquified biscuit tin and let the men do the thinking." The trial continues...

isporty wants to know if there is a meddling, conniving, bony elbowed pop-witch causing your sports club trouble. Let us know and we'll sort them out for you.

Fact of the Day!

Football - On 23rd February 2007 it will be 5 years since Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho last lost a home league match. The last time he lost at home was with Porto losing 3-2 to Beira-Mar. Barcelona are the only team to come away victorious in 90 minutes against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge with a 2-1 victory in the Champions League.

Russian Roulette

Football - Chelsea supremo Greek Caspovich has lost his title of Russia's richest man to Oleg Deripaska whose £10.8 billion fortune is now £10m more than Caspovich's pile. Caspovich received a phone call from Deripaska in the early hours but Caspovich tells us all he could hear was "A lot of party noise and several people shouting 'Nyaah! Nyaah!' So I went back to sleep." Still, Caspovich should be able to redress the balance soon with a little transfer activity. I mean, what's a couple of Frank Lampards between Russian oligarchs?

isporty wants to know how rich you are and can you lend everyone in the isporty office a fiver so we can get a nice pastie for lunch?

Bloody foreigners!

Football - Portsmouth supremo Roma Randomreel has been successful in a £25million take over for Leicester City. The Serbian tycoon says, once in charge he will demand quick success. "It's hard to put a timescale on things but I'm not a patient man nor a good loser," said Randomreel who has appointed seven different managers during his seven years at Portsmouth. "I'll give the current manager and players my full support but they are going to have to deliver and if they don't they know what'll happen. As I say, the timescale is not set in stone but the sooner I can get in there and start sacking people, the sooner I'll be able to appoint and then sack someone new. Robert Kendall is a good, ambitious young manager who wants to win things but I'm sure I can replace him with someone else with a view to sidelining that person as soon as possible." Speculation is mounting already about Kendall's successor's successor's successor.

isporty wants to know your thoughts on all these foreign blokes coming round here with their fancy trousers and rucksacks full of cash and basically taking over the gaff and creating cultural tension.

Fly boy takes it easy

Rugby - England's heroic fly-half Jonty Sparrow will be fresh and firing on all cylinders for England next week. He is being allowed to miss Sunday's club clash at Bristol after England Rugby overlord, Bob Andy, begged Newcastle to give Sparrow a breather. "I had Andy on the phone for an hour," said Falcons Chief Jim Average. "He was in tears, begging literally begging me to rest Sparrow. I won't tell you what he offered in exchange for my co-operation but it made the hairs on my neck stand on end. Anyway, I told him to calm down and that I was going to rest him anyway because we've got someone else who's even better and doesn't get injured all the time and then when we do finally get him fit, he goes poncing off to play for England every fifteen minutes. And no, he's not English."

isporty wants to know what's the worst injury jinx you've ever had and what you did to overcome it. How did you cope with the inactivity, were you tempted to give up and take up cross-stitching instead?

Steady on granddad!

Cricket - England's freaky eyed wicket keeper Bob Pensive has today claimed that he intends to emulate Alec Stewart by playing on for England until he is 65. The Leicestershire glove man was given a shock call-up for the Tri-Nations one-day series in Australia and made his debut aged 36. Pensive, who returned home with the rest of the squad, is certain to keep the gloves when England's 15-man World Cup line up is announced today. He said: "It will be an exciting day. I have got to go to the dentist at some stage but a World Cup is a dream at my age. A lot of Australian guys are retiring but, let's face it, when your career's been as average as mine, you've got to take it where you find it. Any port in a storm, and all that. Alec set the benchmark playing international cricket well into his 60s and I'd be lying if I said he looked good on it." Anyone fancy a pint?

isporty wants to know about any legendary performers who've defied the odds and gone on to keep playing/performing well beyond their 40s.

England cricket XV

So Michael Vaughan is named as captain of England's cricket squad for the World Cup - starting in a month's time.

The whole squad is Vaughan, Joyce, Bell, Pietersen, Strauss, Collingwood, Flintoff, Bopara, Nixon, Dalrymple, Plunkett, Anderson, Mahmood, Lewis, Panesar.

Have you ever had a player who was so inspirational that despite being injured or out of form you thought he was worth his place in the starting line-up ahead of a fellow fit team mate?