Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
BAHRAIN'S young pretender Hamad Al Fardan is backing Ferrari hero and former McLaren driver Kimi Raikkonen to follow up his stunning first Formula One title success with victory again this year.
Louis Padilla edged out Mohammed Idris by the narrowest of margins to lift the title in the Bahrain Cross Island race.
The year 2007 had its share of the good (like Iraq's Asian Cup soccer triumph), substantial portions of the bad (betting, doping, match-fixing etc) and intermittent doses of the ugly as well (Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer's death and soccer violence). It was bizarre (food poisoning claims against the Russians during a Davis Cup tie) as well as brilliant (some Rugby World Cup matches, a few Formula One races and some sublime performances by Roger Federer, Kaka and Tiger Woods) and occasionally even comical (like the F1 row which was kicked off in a nondescript photo copying shop). Here's the second and final section of the two-part series on A to Z of sports in 2007 by Vijay Mruthyunjaya.
Football is so unquestionably imbedded into English culture that it is and has always been surrounded by myth and legend.
Losing is becoming a habit for English cricket in recent times.
