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It was bound to happen. King Kev is no more. The silver haired and apparently mild mannered gaffer of Newcastle United has departed the club after eight months in charge. To be fair noone expected the ex England manager’s reign to last as long as it did.

Rumour has it that he wasn’t too chuffed with the lack of control over transfers and he may have expressed his concerns with the board on tuesday. Not so mild mannered after all, Keegan upset the apple cart (owner Mike Ashley) by suggesting that Newcastle wouldn’t penetrate the top 4 during his reign. His exact words were, "maybe the owner thinks we can bridge that gap but we can’t", blimey no wonder they got …

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Amir Khan’s getting just a little bit boring. It’s been four pretty long years since he starred at the Athens Olympics and still we’re waiting for the guy to fight someone decent. Even Khan himself must be getting more than a little hacked off by the softly-softly approach taken by his promoter, Frank Warren. Warren is taking his time with his young protégé and some would say way too much time. He’s nurturing him almost to the point of mothering him; it was Khan who once claimed he wanted a world title shot by the age of 20. Then it became 21. He passed that birthday last December, and still Warren is picking his fights carefully.

Khan is busy enough. His …

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It is time to wheel ourselves around the expansive shelves of the Bodog library and only hit the brake when we hit the section marked ‘Poker History of the Wild West’.

Ah, here we are.

Welcome to Deadwood.

Fans of quality American television may remember the series in which Ian McShane plays the aptly named Al Swearengen, a character based on a real life brothel owner.

Most of the show’s characters were modelled on actual people who lived in the town in the 1870s but it is a shame that the writers omitted ‘Poker Alice’.

Alice has had some twentieth century screen time but, sadly, her character was only judged worthy enough to feature in some made for tv tosh called ‘The New …

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Man Utd may have finally signed Dimitar Berbatov, but it was their city rivals who stole the show on transfer deadline day with the amazing signing of Robinho from Real Madrid.

The Brazilian striker was expected to either sign for Chelsea, or stick it out at Real – until Man City came blazing in with an offer of £32.5m. That’s a new British transfer record, and Real snatched their hands off. Robinho, perhaps a little perplexed by it all, found himself sitting down for urgent talks with Mark Hughes instead of Luiz Scolari, and now City have recruited the kind of talented superstar which could push them on to another level.

“I’m delighted to get the opportunity to work with such …

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