WORLD CUP 2010: Englands unprepared South Africa HQ will be ready in time demand FIFA management team after revisit

FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke is confident the Royal Bafokeng Sports Campus will be ready on time, although it has still not been confirmed England will stay there during the World Cup.

The site at Phokeng, near Rustenburg in the north-west of South Africa, is still under construction and England boss Fabio Capello has previously raised concerns about the condition of the training pitches.

Capello and Valcke both visited the site on their arrival in the country for the coaches summit in Sun City but the final list of training bases for the 32 countries is still to be announced, despite FIFA hoping to publish it today.

Concern: Fabio Capello went on an inspection of the facilities yesterday

"I was invited by the King of Bafokeng to see this centre because they are looking for FIFA support in the future, after the World Cup, about potential use of international teams who want to train out of their continent," said Valcke.

"The rooms are there - there is a welcome desk where you can pay, a breakfast area where you can eat. There was a television and internet in the room.

"Beside it there is the 3,000 square metres for the King"s Suite; this is under construction but this will not be used during the World Cup.

Building site: Recent pictures show workers preparing a pitch (above) at the Royal Bafokeng Sports Campus in South Africa and construction work (below)

"At the time of the World Cup, the FA (Football Association) need the 68 rooms, the medical centre and pitches. There are two which are being worked on by an Irish company who are experts in grass. We have been told the medical centre will be built on time."

It is understood Algeria, one of England"s Group C opponents, have made a late switch in their training camp.

Danny Jordaan, chief executive of the 2010 Organising Committee, insists the feedback from officials during the meetings in Sun City has been positive.

"We"ve met with the teams and coaches and overall they are very happy," he said.

Jordaan, following his visit to the Royal Bafokeng Sports Campus, added: "I went with Jerome Valcke and we had dinner and lunch there. It is fully operational and I have asked to go back there so we can see the reality.

"The hotel is complete. The development adjacent is intended for a local team called Platinum Stars."

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Blackpool 2 Reading 0: Campbell and Adam put Royals in difficulty

DJ Campbell and Charlie Adam struck to keep Blackpool in contentionfor a coveted play-off berth and push Reading back towards therelegation zone.

On-loan Leicester striker Campbell opened the scoring in the 41stminute with a clinical right-footed finish after a fine pass from Adam.

Champagne Charlie: Adam (left) on the mark again

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And Adam then got on the scoresheet in the 74th minute with a fine strike to register his 13th goal of the campaign and end Reading"s four-match winning run in the Coca-Cola Championship.

It was a second successive home win for Ian Holloway"s men, following their 2-0 success against Middlesbrough in midweek, and a welcome boost to their play-off bid.

Holloway made just one change to his starting line-up, with Andy Butler replacing the suspended Rob Edwards in central defence.

The Seasiders settled quickly and free-scoring midfielder Adam went close in the eighth minute with a shot from 25 yards that flew just wide.

Moments later Gary Taylor-Fletcher also tried his luck from long distance with a shot which warmed the hands of Royals goalkeeper Adam Federici.

In the 13th minute, Reading finally came to life and midfielder Jobi McAnuff drove a fierce right-footed shot from 20 yards which was blocked by David Vaughan.

Vaughan showed his attacking prowess moments later with a fierce left-footed shot from 25 yards which Federici did well to tip round a post.

Reading midfielder Brian Howard then had a shot blocked by Butler as genuine goalscoring opportunities remained scarce.

That changed midway through the first half when Blackpool defender Ian Evatt hit a right-footed shot from 12 yards which Matthew Mills did well to block.

Blackpool midfielder Keith Southern then did likewise from 20 yards as Reading"s goal began to lead a charmed life.

The hosts were dealt a blow in the 22nd minute when Taylor-Fletcher sustained an injury and was replaced by Algeria international Hameur Bouazza.

Yet the momentum remained largely with them, and Adam flashed a shot wide soon afterwards.

Reading made a substitution of their own in the 32nd minute as Brynjar Gunnarsson was replaced by Gylfi Sigurdsson in what appeared to be a tactical switch.

However, they could not deny Blackpool an opening goal in the 41st minute when Adam"s clever pass from the right flank found Campbell and he drilled in a right-footed shot from 12 yards.

In the 53rd minute, Adam went close to getting on the scoresheet with another vicious shot.

The game remained on a knife-edge after Federici produced a smart stop to deny Bouazza from 12 yards in the 57th minute.

Yet Blackpool were not to be denied and they wrapped up the points with 16 minutes remaining.

Bouazza cut the ball back from the right flank and Adam hit a right-footed shot from 18 yards into the bottom corner.

Blackpool were dominant and Southern hit a post from 25 yards as Reading were spared the indignity of their goal being breached for a third time.

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Bollywood low-pitched Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge runs for fifteen years

Rhys Blakely, Mumbai & , : {}

The vanishing adverts for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, arguably Indias prime Bollywood musical, petition audiences to come tumble in love all over again. At one Mumbai motion picture they have being you do usually that each day, for the past fifteen years.

DDLJ, as it is well known by afficionados (the pretension equates to the dauntless encourage get the bride), has been using invariably at the Maratha Mandir motion picture for some-more than 750 weeks. In the nation with the worlds majority inclusive movie industry that is the longest melodramatic recover nonetheless achieved.

It has crushed the prior jot down hold by the classical curry horse opera Sholay, that ran for a small five years. Titanic, until not long ago the highestgrossing Hollywood film, was in American theatres for usually ten months.

It is simply the most appropriate movie ever made, pronounced Salman Kureshi, 20, a grocer who has seen the movie at slightest 40 times. It has the most appropriate songs, the most appropriate love story, the most appropriate hero.

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An assembly of 236 incited up at the 1,107-seat motion picture yesterday about normal for a weekday at this time of year. Almost each Sunday and Bank Holiday it plays to a full house.

DDLJ, that was done for about $1.5 million in 1994, launched the career of the Bollywood luminary Shahrukh Khan, who plays the London-born, Lamborghini-driving favourite Raj Malhotra.

Raj falls in love with Simran Singh played by the Indian singer Kajol Devgan a doe-eyed beauty who lives with her family in a suburban London semi. But Simrans father has committed her to an organised matrimony in India. Raj forsakes his seducer ways, follows her to Punjab where the matrimony is to take place and ... well, you can probably theory the rest.

The film-makers hold that the interest lies in the alloy of normal values (Raj refuses to run away but the accede of Simrans father) with the work of art of intemperate Western lifestyles.

It was the initial movie that authorised Indian audiences to brand with the lives of Indians abroad, pronounced Avtar Panesar, vice-president for general operations at Yash Raj Films, the prolongation college of music at the back of the hit. It proposed a total new epoch in Indian storytelling.

So expansive are sheet sales that Praveen Rane, the motion picture manager, sees no reason because DDLJ should not run for an additional fifteen years.

He acknowledges that the attractions are not quite cinematic. For fifteen rupees (22p) you get 3 hours of party and air conditioning. In this city, thats unbeatable.

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Pound underneath conflict as debt worries grow

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THE bruise faces a severe week with doubt over the result of the ubiquitous choosing and concerns over the open monetary management melancholy to trigger a new call of selling.

A shrinking Conservative check lead is worsening fears of a hung parliament. Fears over Greek debt, that were undermining the euro, have started to strike sterling, as concerns have grown that worries over emperor debt could spread.

George Papandreou, the Greek budding minister, will hold talks with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, on Friday. Their assembly comes among a inform that a German-led bailout for Greece will engage KfW, the state-owned growth bank, shopping or guaranteeing Greek supervision bonds.

However, multiform heading in isolation German banks have pronounced they will not buy any some-more Greek debt and yesterday the German monetary method refused to criticism on the plan.

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Greeces woes had strike the euro tough but last week courtesy shifted to sterling, that was undermined by diseased investment interpretation and dovish comments from Mervyn King, the Bank of England governor, and a little of his monetary process cabinet (MPC) colleagues.

The MPC, that meets this week, is set to leave Bank rate unvaried at 0.5% and hang with the existent 200 billion of quantitative easing, notwithstanding hints from a little members that some-more could be done.

The shade MPC, that meets underneath the auspices of the Institute of Economic Affairs, has voted 6-3 to keep Bank rate on hold, with 3 members propelling an evident half-point rate rise. Several shade MPC members pronounced the Bank should be ready to make known serve easing, with one, Peter Warburton, advocating an additional twenty-five billion immediately.

Both hawks and doves concluded that the new UK outlay interpretation had been disappointingly diseased and that there was a critical risk of a renewed downturn in activity, the shade MPCs mins said.

The feud was either this was essentially a demand-side complaint or a supply-side sadness caused by the climb in the supervision spending comparative measure and the mass of new regulations that has been introduced.

A inform to be published this week by Centre Forum, the think tank, will call for quantitative easing to be transposed by approach measures to get credit issuing to businesses and households. The Bank might have forestalled a sum fall in the monetary complement but quantitative easing has been less successful at sensitive the genuine economy, it said.

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Fabio Capello expects John Terry to action similar to a captain

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Fabio Capello has told John Terry that he expects him to denote his care qualities opposite Egypt at Wembley tomorrow notwithstanding being nude of the England captaincy.

The England manager reliable he had warned his players about their off-the-field poise as he looks to reconstruct group suggestion after a month in that the in isolation lives of John Terry, Wayne Bridge and Ashley Cole have done front-page news.

Capello additionally reliable that Steven Gerrard would captain the side. "[Terry] will not be captain," Capello said. "He is precision unequivocally well and he will be the same player in the sauce room. I told him you have to do the same things as a captain.

"I spoke with the players and pronounced they have to reconstruct the suggestion of the group and sight with focus. I"m unequivocally happy given I saw the same thing as in Nov [in the accessible opposite Brazil in Doha]."

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Asked if there was any possibility of Terry captaining England during his tenure, Capello said: "I think no. I think the subsequent captain will be Rio [Ferdinand]. For tomorrow, the captain will be Steven Gerrard."

Yesterday, Wayne Rooney urged England fans to give Terry their full await after a little had jeered and abused the Chelsea defender in the arise of his event with Wayne Bridges former girlfriend. There have been fears that Terry could additionally be booed by England fans on his initial coming at Wembley given losing the armband.

However, Capello urged supporters to behind the team. "The fans have to await each moment," he said. "You have to assimilate that secretly a little players were not so good, but on the representation it is different.

"We wear the England shirt and it is unequivocally critical they assistance us each moment. I goal that tomorrow the throng assistance us and do not disapprove him."

Egypt come in to the compare uninformed from winning the African Cup of Nations for the third unbroken time and Capello admits he expects an "interesting" match. "We goal to fool around unequivocally well and we entice the fans to assistance us," he said. "It"s not easy to win the African Nations Cup 3 times if you are not a great team. I watched Egypt"s games and it is a really, unequivocally great team.

"They are dangerous, they are unequivocally well organized on the representation who know what to do in each moment. It will be a unequivocally engaging exam for us."

Bailed-out AIG warns that it competence need some-more support

Christine Seib in New York & , : {}

The one after another fallout from the tellurian monetary predicament gathering American International Group $10.9 billion (�7.1 billion) in to the red last year. However, the outrageous net loss was a immeasurable alleviation for the word group, that was $100 billion in necessity in 2008.

AIG, that survived the credit break with the assistance of $182 billion of assist from American taxpayers, narrowed the fourth-quarter net loss to $8.9 billion, from $61.7 billion in 2008.

Robert Benmosche, who assimilated AIG as arch senior manager last August, pronounced that AIG had done good swell in carrying out the restructuring plan, together with offered non-core businesses, slicing bearing to unsure resources and stabilising the word operations.

However, in papers filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), AIG warned again that it competence need one more supervision support. Without one more await ... there could exist estimable disbelief about AIGs capability to go on as a going concern, it said.

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The fourth-quarter loss was due in piece to a $6.2 billion seductiveness and amortisation strike from shortening the credit trickery with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to $23.4 billion.

AIG, that gave a 79.9 per cent interest to the US Government in lapse for an $85 billion bailout in 2008, additionally has a $24.4 billion credit line with the Treasury.

AIG combined $2.3 billion to the blurb word loss reserves. Despite this, Fitch Ratings placed the ubiquitous word businesss A+ rating on a disastrous watch, citing concerns about the renting and profitability.

AIG cut the portfolio of derivatives hold by the monetary products multiplication at the finish of 2009 to $940 billion, from $1.6 trillion in 2008. The monetary products multiplication was obliged for AIGs misfortune monetary problems after offered trillions of dollars value of unsure credit default swaps at the tallness of Wall Streets bang years. AIG paid $100 million in influence bonuses last month to safeguard that staff stayed on to assistance with the derivatives sell-off.

Although Mr Benmosche pronounced that he was assured about AIGs outlook, the superfluous businesses face serious hurdles among the difficult mercantile sourroundings and repairs caused to AIGs code by the bailout. General word reward and sales of hold up word and payments products were down in 2009, AIG said.

Concerns about the companys opinion weighed on the shares yesterday. At midday on Wall Street, the batch was 8 per cent down at $25.26.

Stephen Thomas staid to give up as Luminar chief

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The song is about to stop for the arch senior manager of Britains greatest nightclub operator. Stephen Thomas is currently approaching to make well known that he is stepping down from the house of Luminar, the association that he founded twenty-two years ago, and handing carry out to an outsider.

The Times understands that Mr Thomas, 57, will be transposed by Simon Douglas, the former arch senior manager of Zavvi, the song tradesman that went bust in Dec 2008 less than eighteen months after he combined it by a buyout of Virgin Megastores.

Mr Douglas afterwards took on 7 former Zavvi units from the senior manager by a new vehicle, Head Entertainment, to run as clearway stores. All but dual of those stores have right away sealed after clearing their superfluous stock.

His appointment currently as arch senior manager of Luminar might warn a little investors since his experience at Zavvi. However, sell analysts pronounced that the disaster of the sequence was precipitated by the fall of Woolworths, that was the solitary distributor of CDs and DVDs to Zavvi, rather than any error of management.

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His scheduled attainment at Luminar subsequent month comes after the launch of a vital tie-up with HMV, the song and books retailer, that will concede the dual companies to work together in 4 hearing locations to expostulate sales to each others outlets.

Analysts pronounced that Mr Douglass credentials would progress the chances of the tie-up proof successful, potentially heading to a wider-ranging agreement. Before fasten the Virgin Group in 2004, Mr Douglas was operations senior manager of HMV for 4 years.

Mr Douglas, 44, is believed to have been approached by Luminar after Avril Palmer-Baunack, arch senior manager of Autologic Holdings, incited the pursuit down. Autologic not long ago emerged as one of the winners from the Governments car scrappage intrigue after storing and distributing a little of the additional 280,000 new cars sole by the traffic last year.

The depart of Mr Thomas follows a vehement twelve months, during that the groups core customers of eighteen to 24-year-olds has been disproportionately strike by rising unemployment. Last month, after the ultimate in a array of distinction warnings, Mr Thomas said: Its been horrible the misfortune year Ive known.

Mr Thomas founded Luminar in 1988 after abandoning his pursuit as an neophyte engine automechanic and operative his approach up the late-night ladder at Rank, Grosvenor Leisure and Whitbread. He floated the commercial operation in 1996 and by a array of acquisitions, the greatest of that was Northern Leisure, he built an sovereignty of some-more than 300 nightclubs and discotheques.

In reply to the new chartering laws, that gave pubs larger leisure to contest with nightclubs, Mr Thomas sole some-more than 200 of the normal discos to concentration on about 90 large-scale entertainment-led venues underneath such brands as Oceana, Liquid and Lava Ignite.

However, shortly after the mutation the zone was forced to understanding with the smoking ban, a array of ethanol avocation increases, rising costs and the recession.

This had stirred a little investors to call in to subject the on all sides of Mr Thomas and in a new talk with The Times he certified to carrying doubts: Am I evaluating myself? Yes I am. Is it me? Do I have to do something about myself? Am I the wrong person? All those questions have to be asked.

You work really tough to get the right people of the right age around you. But the subject is, am I right away at an age where I essentially shouldnt be using a nightclub company?

Despite his depart at a low point in Luminars fortunes, industry observers pronounced that the owner would be a tough action to follow.

As Mr Thomas, who will stay on until Jul to safeguard a well-spoken handover, once said: Nobody could ever contend I wasnt the most appropriate user in this market. Everyone else has come and gone.

Luminar declined to criticism last night.

Stephen Thomas in his own words:

Youre possibly unfortunate for your initial snog or desperately seeking for your subsequent one

On because people go clubbing

If you dont embody the supermarkets it"s half an orange

On Government efforts to plunge in to binge celebration

I"m a large fan of it

On ethanol smallest pricing

I dont wish to begin a fight. As I come to the finish of my career, I"ve finished all my fighting

On his warding off to name the opposition bribing clubbers in to the clubs with eight free drinks

You only wish to punch their lights out

On rivals who are stating like-for-like sales expansion after a pre-pack administration department

The big complaint with the industry is we"ve got as well most faffy people articulate balderdash

On traffic associations

Theres less fights the only reported some-more

On the feeling that alcohol-related commotion is getting worse

When the H2O goes down, rocks come to the aspect

On Luminars capability to float out storms