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Sport News 24/7 By Matthew Biggin  @MatthewBiggin  @TLE_Sport There seems to be a storm brewing on Wearside as Sunderland have endured a torrid month.  First star player Adam Johnson was arrested on suspicion of sex with a minor.  This was compounded by further abject results on the pitch.  It all came to a head with the recent 4-0 home defeat to fellow strugglers Aston Villa, a result that would ultimately cost Gus Poyet his job. So what are the issues...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter  @TLE_Sport The England cricket team returned this week from their calamitous performance at the 2015 Cricket World Cup with their tails firmly between their legs.  One can only hope that such a debacle perpetuates a seismic shift in the team’s selection and approach to one-day cricket.  Everyone from the management to the players needs to take a long hard look at themselves and evaluate what went wrong.  I’m here...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter  @TLE_Sport The news on Monday that Gustavo Poyet had been sacked as Sunderland manager came as no real surprise.  The 4-0 drubbing at home by Aston Villa was the final straw in what has been a fairly dismal season on Wearside.  The tide of public opinion had turned irreversibly against Poyet and the board had little choice other than to replace the Uruguayan to arrest an alarming slide towards...

Sport News 24/7 By Sean Simara  @Sean_FootyMad  @TLE_Sport The San Antonio Spurs have been going along nicely, maybe even a little under the radar for much of the season as other teams in the Western Conference make the headlines.  We can't forget though that this team are the current NBA Champions, beating the Miami Heat last year in convincing style. This year the Spurs look like they will finish between 5th and 7th in the Western Conference so what chance...

Sport News 24/7 By Ellie Caddick  @caddicksport  @TLE_Sport This time last week most of us were sure that Ireland v England was going to be the game of the championship.  The clash would see the two favourites for the championship go head-to-head and whoever could emerge victorious would be on track for the Grand Slam. Just 24 hours earlier Wales would travel to Paris for what looked like the battle for third place.  Would France turn up?  Would Wales be...

Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter  @rgdewinter  @TLE_Sport Test cricket is all that really matters.  ODIs are just a Disneyfied version of the real thing, designed for people who want things now, people who measure excitement in terms of boundaries and cartwheeling stumps, people who don’t appreciate the beauty of a game that can last for five days without anyone winning. That, at least, is what I’ve been telling myself over the last few weeks as England’s ODI team...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter  @TLE_Sport A club record points tally in the Premier League; European qualification; victories against Chelsea and Arsenal and an unprecedented home and away double over Manchester United.  2013/14 was something of an annus mirabilis for Everton FC.  So why have they not reproduced that form in the current campaign? On paper nothing much has changed.  The squad is largely the same from last season.  Romelu Lukaku and Gareth Barry...

</a ></a >Sport News</a > 24/7 By Will Magee  @W_F_Magee  @TLE_Sport The London Economic continues its focus on non-league football with a visit to Dulwich Hamlet where Will Magee found the club ethos to be diametrically opposite to that of the Premier League. Over the last month, the Premier League’s reputation has surely reached a new low.  Don’t get me wrong, it’s been deteriorating for much longer than that; soaring prices, despotic owners, leveraged buyouts, text message scandals and dire behaviour on...

Sport News 24/7 By Simon White  @SimonWhite14  @TLE_Sport Brought to light by a series of astonishingly bad decisions in recent weeks, it is hard to refute the fact that the standard of refereeing in the Premier League is dropping.  From sending off the wrong player to Manuel Figueroa not receiving a card for leaving an utterly horrific gash in Stephen Ireland’s leg, it is about time the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) realised things need to change.  Whether it...