Around sports round-up

Girl’s Cricket

Haringey Girls cricket team have made it through to the final of the Balfour Beatty London Youth Games to take place this week. Good luck to them. Haringey Independent.

Chelsea

All is not well in the Donkey Sanctuary, Abramovich is looking for his eighth permanent manager since 2003 after sacking Andre Villas-Boas. Former manager Scolari says it will be “hell” for who ever fills the vacancy. BBC.

Football reading

There’s an interesting overview of the latest sports books over at Socialist Unity. However, while Women’s Football in the UK looks interesting at £76 I think I might wait for the film.

Arsenal

The Islington Gazette has a reminder that Arsenal is a big business and not all of it revolving around what’s happening on the pitch. Arsenal’s property empire continues to grow and their application to build a 25 storey sky scrapper is still meeting determined opposition.

Video

Talking of the Gunners, Charlie Nicholas shows, in the Sky commentary box, that he still loves Arsenal during Tuesday’s Soccer Special;

Olympics

East London Lines has the low down on the £2.3 million the Olympic Delivery Authority has lost.

The Evening Standard reports that three London councils have blocked Olympic fast lanes.

London Underground workers have been offered £850 for working the games according to the Guardian. This is not actually as much as the overground workers who, I believe, are getting a four figure payout.