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Powys County Times
29 minutes ago
- Powys County Times
John Stones reflects on ‘dark days' during recent injury setbacks
John Stones admits there were times he doubted if his career would resume amid a series of injury problems over the past two years. The Manchester City and England centre-back made only six Premier League starts in the 2024-25 season after thigh, foot and other undisclosed issues. That came after he also missed two months at the start of the previous campaign with a hip injury. These setbacks have prevented the 31-year-old building on what was an outstanding season in 2022-23 when, playing a hybrid defence-midfield role, he helped City win the treble. Stones said: 'Yes, there have been points where you think: you've been giving all this effort, you dedicate all your life, especially how I approach or go about my life and football, I give everything on and off the pitch to be here or be ready to play games and… those are the dark days. 'I think everyone's been through them and thinks, 'Why is this happening?' You wish it would go a different path. It's self-doubt, a lot of things. 'It is frustrating for me. I put a lot of pressure on myself. I find it very challenging mentally. 'I have had some very low points in the past season. I just have to (try to) come back but, once you come over those things, you can't really see the end of the tunnel when they keep happening. 'All of us have been through different upbringings and challenges through life and what did we do within those situations – was it fight or was it give up? 'I was a fighter from a young age. In difficult moments, you have to look at the bigger picture and realise what your morals are, what you believe in, and fight to make it worthwhile.' Stones has now battled his way back to fitness and is hoping to play a big part in City's challenge at the Club World Cup in the United States. He has not featured since February when he was forced off after just eight minutes against Real Madrid. He was an unused substitute in their opening game of the tournament against Wydad Casablanca on Wednesday. Speaking to media ahead of their second game against Al Ain of Abu Dhabi in Atlanta, Stones said he was 'raring' to go. He said: 'I feel great, I'm back fit and ready to help the team when called upon. I'm excited to get going. 'Mentally it's been difficult dealing with the injuries and the process, but now I've put that behind me. 'I've been back in training a few weeks now and that's been going great. I'm super excited.' Manager Pep Guardiola is pleased to have Stones back in contention but will ease him back into action. Guardiola said: 'Him playing football, I want that. We have been together for almost one decade and he's an incredible human being. 'But the important thing now is at training sessions, he feels better. Games are another issue, another rhythm.'
Telegraph
33 minutes ago
- Telegraph
Steve Rider interview: Gary Lineker's downfall was inevitable
Quietly, gracefully, the curtain is falling on one of the consummate broadcasting careers. Steve Rider, known to millions for his balance of levity and gravity, for deftly handling everything from Peter Alliss' quips at Augusta to Ayrton Senna's death at Imola, is on Sunday afternoon hanging up the microphone for good, signing off on ITV4 from his beloved British Touring Car Championship at Oulton Park. True to form, he anticipates less a lachrymose farewell than a few understated words that will come to him in the moment. 'God knows, I'll be very disappointed if Andrea Bocelli isn't here,' he chuckles. 'I'll go quietly, don't worry.' It is striking to see the profound affection that Rider draws at the Cheshire track as retirement beckons. Fans line up in the pit lane for autographs and selfies with him, nostalgic on learning they will no longer be treated to perhaps the smoothest voice in British sport. Rider represents a link to a halcyon age on our screens, a time when Grandstand would dominate Saturday afternoons and when the BBC could still claim a live portfolio encompassing the Masters, the Open and Formula One. At 75, he is, in the words of his former ITV colleague James Allen, 'one of the greatest professionals – low-ego, dedicated, supremely competent, always calm'. Rider's gift is that he has always seemed to know not just what to say, but when and how to say it. The story of one indelible April weekend in 1994 encapsulates this better than any. On the Saturday he was at Wembley, anchoring rugby league's Challenge Cup final, when the BBC received a call from Simtek, a fledgling F1 team, asking for confirmation that Rider – whom they knew as a motorsport aficionado – would be travelling overnight to the San Marino Grand Prix. 'They had a suspension part they needed to get to Imola, and they wanted me to carry it by hand,' he reflects. 'So, this thing ended up propped up against the back of our studio. About an hour later, we learned Roland Ratzenberger, one of their drivers, had been killed in qualifying.' The Austrian's death marked the first in F1 for 12 years, a harbinger of the horror to come. Just 24 hours later Rider was pitched into the most gruelling live broadcast of his 48 years in television, learning almost immediately that Senna's 190mph crash at Tamburello corner was fatal but forced to hold the programme together for several hours until the hospital's official confirmation. 'In '94, you were effectively the only source of information,' he says. 'People's mobile phones weren't going to be lighting up. So it was down to you to set the tone for how this awful news was delivered. 'On site at Imola, there was a policy to say, 'This is an ongoing situation'. We had our own BBC camera there, so we could cut away from the worst of the footage that Italian TV was providing. It was the start of the World Championship Snooker final, so I was standing on the pit wall with all this going on, cutting in and out of frames of snooker. But thank goodness for that. It was tough.' Mercifully, there are settings harbouring happier memories: not least Augusta, where, as the BBC's master of ceremonies for 23 years, he had a front-row seat for both an unprecedented era of European dominance and the eccentricities of the inimitable Alliss. 'It was the perennial, unchanging nature of the place,' he explains. 'Peter kept a bottle of whiskey in the bottom of his wardrobe and came back to it every year. He would leave his clothes there, too. We would just pick up where we left off.' Not that his introduction to the tournament was quite so auspicious. In 1982, covering his first Masters remotely for ITV, Rider suffered the misfortune of a technical malfunction at the critical moment. 'It was my first big individual network commitment, and we had a warning that maybe the satellite booking would be a bit vulnerable around midnight,' he says. 'The line went down – and it never came back. We had no communication with Augusta in any form. The worst part was that Craig Stadler and Dan Pohl were on the 18th, heading for a play-off, and we came off air without anyone knowing the result.' Ian Wooldridge wrote at the time that ITV should never be entrusted with a major sporting event again. Rider still has the article framed at home. When eventually he returned to ITV in 2005, Rider was unimpressed by the BBC's decision to replace him as its face of golf with Gary Lineker. It was hardly his style, of course, to engage in a public slanging match. His true feelings only became clear a decade later, when, riled by his successor's depiction of the R&A as pompous and superior, he said: 'Most other observers knew that Gary was the wrong man in the wrong job.' They have not spoken since, with Rider offering an arched eyebrow on Lineker's tendency to stray far beyond his brief as a football presenter, arguing that he 'blundered' into politics. On Lineker's dramatic BBC downfall last month, with the corporation easing him out of the door after his sharing of an anti-Semitic rat emoji, Rider is unequivocal. 'To put forward his opinions so energetically, you need to step outside the framework of the BBC,' he says. 'That message was never convincingly conveyed to him by the BBC, and that's where they are at fault. He needed people looking after him before he pressed the button on some fairly volatile retweets. He needed to be saved from himself. So, there was a kind of inevitability about it.' It was Roger Mosey, the BBC's former director of sport, who elevated Lineker to a level of power and remuneration far beyond that of any other presenter. You sense there is not much love lost here either: it was Mosey, after all, who pulled the plug on Grandstand in 2007 – without, Rider suggests, 'any great thought about the shape of what should come next'. While a BBC stalwart for two decades, Rider laments what has happened to some of the programmes he would so unflappably host. Take Sports Personality of the Year. The combination of Rider's urbanity and Des Lynam's sardonic wit helped elevate a mere awards shindig at Television Centre to the status of a cherished Christmas staple. Today, shunted from Sunday night primetime to midweek, it is an inelegant, achingly worthy highlights package. 'The commercial aspect took over,' Rider says. 'The thinking was, 'Let's take it to a 5,000-seat arena with a big shiny floor'' It killed the chemistry. Unfortunately, this happened just as the BBC's involvement in sport started declining. Now it's very, very uncomfortable to see. It's not the type of programme you would invent now. It has become a bit of a ball and chain.' Given Rider's contribution, alongside Murray Walker, to glamorising a great chapter in F1 history, it seemed faintly tragicomic for the BBC to reduce the SPOTY segment on Max Verstappen's 2023 title-winning season to a fan video of the Dutchman rounding the final corner at Silverstone. One of Rider's abiding passions today is to bring motorsport's heritage alive for a modern audience, curating material from the first 30 years of the F1 world championship. It is in this capacity that he has realised the national broadcaster is missing a trick. 'The BBC has the biggest race archive, the biggest volume of F1 material of anyone,' he says. 'But it shows a complete reluctance to access it, to activate it, or even to monetise it. Six months ago, an F1 stills archive changed hands for £21 million. The BBC is sitting on an absolute treasure trove – the public access argument is overwhelming.' Across almost half a century in front of the cameras, Rider has witnessed almost inconceivable change. When he covered his first Olympics in Moscow in 1980, much of the filming would be done on two-inch tape, which had to be cut with razor blades. By the time he reached Sydney 20 years later, vast TV crews could capture every facet of the Games in the tiniest detail. But the presentation still required Rider's unerring eye for a human story. Never did this prove more valuable than when he told his team to mobilise for Steve Redgrave's tilt at a fifth gold medal. 'My family and I live out near Marlow, Steve's hometown, so we knew him pretty well,' he says. 'But in Sydney, the Penrith Lakes were a fair distance away, and there was a reluctance within the BBC to commit resources. But I told people, 'This is the biggest story of the Games and the biggest story of the year, potentially'. We got into a car with a crew at 4am and I've never known anything like it – it was like heading to a campfire, with Union flags flying out of every car. 'By 7am, 12,000 people were at the lake. When Steve won gold, he initially shrugged, 'Oh, it's just another race'. We only had about 45 seconds left, and I was trying to salvage things. So I told Matthew Pinsent, 'Just explain to Steve exactly what he has achieved'. And he said, 'Well, you've just become the greatest Olympian of all time'. He chose his words beautifully. The camera went in on Steve, the tears welled up, and you came away thinking you had played a little part in a golden moment.' He counts it, to this day, as his career's crowning glory. It is Rider's mixture of sharpness and sensitivity that will be most keenly missed when he makes his farewell. It is rare, in an often backbiting industry, where nobody has a bad word to say about you, but he appears to have managed it. The ultimate man for all seasons, as enthusiastic in talking about touring cars as about the Boat Race, he conveyed everything with a voice of the purest silk. Asked what his final thought on air will be, he says: 'It will be about the help and the friendship that I've had.' He upholds, to the very end, that precious art of never making it about himself.
Metro
37 minutes ago
- Metro
Bayern Munich hijack Chelsea's transfer move for £51m forward
Chelsea have encountered another hurdle in their bid to sign Jamie Gittens, with Bayern Munich joining the race for the wantaway Borussia Dortmund attacker. Gittens reportedly agreed personal terms with Chelsea before BVB's Club World Cup campaign got underway earlier this month and the 20-year-old has been eager to push through a move to Stamford Bridge. But the Blues have failed with two separate offers for Gittens and Dortmund are refusing to be bullied by the Europa Conference League winners as talks rumble on between the clubs. Determined to get their man having already landed Liam Delap, Dario Essugo and Mamadou Sarr, the west London giants are expected to return with a third offer for Gittens in due course. But according to German publication Kicker, Bayern are preparing to ramp up their pursuit of Gittens as they grow increasingly resigned to their top target, Nico Williams, joining Barcelona. Wake up to find news on your club in your inbox every morning with Metro's Football Newsletter. Sign up to our newsletter and then select your team in the link we'll send you so we can get football news tailored to you. Athletic Bilbao and Spain sensation Williams is said to favour a switch to the Camp Nou which has forced the German champions to explore other possible avenues, leading them to Gittens. It's claimed the Dortmund and England Under-21 winger is now firmly onBayern's 'radar' and initial negotiations have begun between the two Bundesliga rivals with a view to hashing out a possible deal. The report adds that BVB would be willing to part with Gittens should they receive an offer in the region of €60million (£51m) this summer – and a bidding war could break out between Bayern and Chelsea. AC Milan's Rafael Leao, Liverpool's Cody Gakpo, Paris Saint-Germain's Bradley Barcola and Brighton's Kaoru Mitoma also find themselves on Bayern's shortlist of attacking targets Bayern Munich sporting director Max Eberl had been expected to stay with Vincent Kompany's squad for the duration of the Club World Cup in the United States – but the German 'unexpectedly' left the tournament to attend to the club's transfer business two days ago. Gittens' current contract with Dortmund runs through to June 2028. 'We've had one or two conversations with Jamie in the last few days,' BVB sporting director Sebastian Kehl told reporters when asked for an update on Gittens' situation after the club's goalless draw with Fluminense. 'He's professional enough to know that he has to perform. That's part of his nature. 'Jamie will still be very important for us in this tournament. We'll see what happens after that. 'But I don't have a negative opinion of him.' More Trending Before Chelsea's Club World Cup campaign began, Enzo Maresca confirmed the club were in the market for a new winger to fill the void left by Jadon Sancho. 'Jadon is not with us so for sure that is a position [winger] we need to do something,' the Chelsea head coach told explained. 'We have Noni [Madueke], Pedro [Neto] and Ty [George] only as the proper wingers so something for sure is going to happen. 'When the transfer window is open, for sure, we can do something.' For more stories like this, check our sport page. Follow Metro Sport for the latest news on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. MORE: Arsenal poised to 'change direction' after growing frustrated with transfer target's wage demands MORE: Napoli open talks to sign another Man Utd star after Jadon Sancho agreement MORE: Marc Guehi makes transfer decision after Arsenal and Liverpool interest
