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| Everton suspend Jô after trip home to Brazil • Brazilian travels home without club permission• On-loan striker suspended by David MoyesJô seems set for a speedy return to Manchester City after he was suspended indefinitely by David Moyes yesterday. The Brazilian striker, on loan at Everton from Eastlands, had returned to South America without permission last month and found himself the subject of a severe club sanction on his return to Merseyside.Although Jô has been nursing a knee injury, he did not tell Everton officials about his unscheduled trip to Brazil to attend to a "personal matter" shortly before Christmas and Moyes – who will almost certainly seek to cut short his loan deal and return the £18m striker to City – was suitably unimpressed."Jô went to Brazil without permission from the club," said Moyes, who yesterday hinted that the striker might well have played his last game for Everton. "He is now back in Liverpool but is suspended at the present time."I'm disappointed. We like Jô, he's a really good lad and we enjoy having him here but there has to be discipline at football clubs. He left during a busy period when we were short of players. I find that very difficult so he is suspended and the disciplinary process is on-going."The breach of club rules should make it simple to cut short what was intended to be a season-long loan deal. A prolific striker for CSKA Moscow – where he scored 44 times in 77 games – Jô struggled to adapt to life at City under the club's former manager Mark Hughes last season.Despite scoring five goals in 12 games while on loan at Everton for a short spell last winter, he has made less of an impact at Goodison Park this term, managing just two goals.It is now possible that the Eastlands board may seek to cut their losses on what the club tacitly agrees to have been an £18m mistake. Indeed Jô could shortly return to Russia where CSKA are reported to be extremely keen on taking their former star striker back on loan until the end of the season with a view to completing a permanent, if cut-price, deal in the summer.Premier LeagueEvertonManchester CityLouise Taylorguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Snow football and a Korean pop homage Also featuring Eva Longoria singing with the San Antonio Spurs, rally jumping a harbour and how not to report on sledging1) It seems these days that the slightest whisper of snow has officials handing things over to the pools panel. Back in the 90s, though, Glentoran and Linfield showed these modern day softies how it should be done, though things got a little ridiculous after the orange ball was misplaced.2) It was a festive period of blunders in stateside basketball: on Christmas Day the LA Lakers made the mistake of handing out free foam hands to their fans, forgetting that in the event of a poor performance they were essentially handing out free missiles; Oklahoma's Tiny Gallon smashed a backboard on New Year's Eve, despite failing to complete the dunk; and then there was this monstrosity from the San Antonio Spurs' Tony Parker, and Mrs Tony Parker, Eva Longoria.3) Our Korean isn't great, but it seems unlikely that the subtitles here correspond to the actual lyrics (and the word's 'Football Parody' may also give it away). Still, we can but hope that word of "chubby Frank" has reached that part of the world.4) To welcome in the new year, some people belt out Auld Lang Syne, some people break out the cigars, others head straight for the liquor cabinet and get stuck into the single malt. Travis Pastrana gets into his Subaru and drives off the pier in Long Beach, California, and launches himself 269 feet into the harbour.5) David James goes mano a mano with a machine thrusting balls in his direction at up to 97mph – and wins.The best bits from last week's blog1) Describing someone as 'the rugby Schumacher' conjures images of a nippy winger accelerating from defence, slaloming past defenders and flying over the line. But this is the other Schumacher (and we don't mean Ralf).2) Dude!3) How to improve curling? OTT commentating, of course. Nice rock.4) The first rule of TV sledging reportage: Stand out of the way.5) Pie-catching isn't a sport (yet), but this bloke is a contender for the unofficial world title6) He can't take penalties, or offer particularly insightful punditry, but Chris Waddle knows how to score in five-a-sideSpotters badges: Toinfinityandbeyond, IKNOWNOTHING, rowingrob, 8ackbiter, Porkchops, deborahharryRugby unionUS sportguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Lille moves to 2nd in Ligue 1 Lille beat Paris Saint-Germain 3-1 to move into second place in the French league Saturday and keep the pressure on leader Bordeaux. cbc.ca |
Sid Lowe: Copa del Rey fighting for respect Delirium in the Calderon, shredded nerves and racing hearts everywhere else. cbc.ca |
Nottingham Forest 5 Queens Park Rangers 0: match report Nottingham Forest show their promotion credentials by thrashing an abject QPR side. telegraph.co.uk |