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26 SPORT WEDNESDAY 8 JUNE 2016 SPORT FOOTBALL Vardy poised to decide future after Euro 2016 ROSS MCLEAN @rossmcleanRMAC STRIKER Jamie Vardy looks set to adhere to the wishes of England manager Roy Hodgson and postpone any decision over his domestic future until after the European Championship. Arsenal triggered a £20m release clause in Vardy’s contract on Friday while the 29-year-old was expected to decide whether to join the Gunners or stay with Premier League champions Leicester City before flying to France on Monday. No decision was forthcoming and Vardy, who netted 24 top-flight goals last term, now appears ready to put any such debate on his future onto the back-burner until England’s involvement at the tournament has ended. Hodgson, who allowed Vardy to miss England’s friendly with Australia at the Stadium of Light for his wedding, has spoken of his desire for transfer speculation to be left at Leicester striker Vardy has been the subject of a transfer bid from Arsenal FOOTBALL JOE HALL @joehallwords FORMER Chelsea first-team doctor Eva Carneiro achieved victory in her longrunning legal battle with the club and its former manager Jose Mourinho yesterday when she received a seven-figure payout and an apology. Carneiro reached a settlement with Chelsea over a claim for constructive dismissal and agreed to drop a separate claim against Mourinho for sex discrimination shortly before she was due to give evidence to the tribunal in Croydon. Details have been kept confidential but experts said the Premier League club would likely have had to fork out over £1.2m — the value of a previous settlement offer rejected by Carneiro. Chelsea apologised “unreservedly” to their former employee and agreed that she had been in the right in the August 2015 incident at the centre of the employment tribunal. Carneiro claimed that Mourinho had called her “daughter of a whore” in Portuguese when she treated Blues star Eden Hazard during the opening match of last season. “I am relieved that today we have been able to conclude this tribunal case,” Carneiro said in a statement. “It has been an extremely difficult and distressing time for me and my family and I now look forward to moving forward with my life.” Former Chelsea boss Mourinho, who was last month appointed manager of Manchester United, thanked the 42- year-old doctor but did not go on record with an apology. Chelsea acknowledged DOUBLE TROUBLE British duo Laura Robson and Heather Watson suffered Nottingham Open first round defeats the “distress caused” by the affair. The Gibraltar-born doctor was dropped from first team duties by Mourinho against her wishes after treating Hazard and subsequently left the club. “We wish to place on record that in running onto the pitch Dr Carneiro was following both the rules of the game and fulfilling her responsibility to the players as a doctor, putting their safety first,” the club said in a statement. “Dr Carneiro has always put the interests of the club's players first. Dr Carneiro is a highly competent and professional sports doctor. She was a valued member of the club’s medical team and we wish her every success in her future career. Jose Mourinho also thanks Dr Carneiro for the excellent and dedicated support she provided as First Team Doctor and he wishes her a successful career.” Legal experts said the settlement had avoided further potential embarrassment for Chelsea and Mourinho. “Had it proceeded to a full hearing, Mourinho and the club would have been asked some very difficult questions about their treatment of Dr Carneiro,” said Glenn Hayes of Irwin Mitchell. “It is very unlikely that the case settled for less than £1.2m given that amount had already been put on the table and the total amount is likely to exceed the maximum award that the tribunal might have made had she been successful with all of her claims.” PwC partner Ed Stacey said that Dr Carneiro’s claim served as “a reminder professional football clubs are not in a league of their own when it comes to employment law”. CITYAM.COM Carneiro 1, Chelsea 0 Former Blues doctor agrees sevenfigure settlement and full apology home and for players to fully focus on Euro 2016 while in France. As England prepare for their Group B opener against Russia in Marseille on Saturday, Liverpool marksman Daniel Sturridge insists he has seen nothing from former non-league hitman Vardy to suggest he has become distracted by the saga involving his future. “That is what everyone is here to do, concentrate on England and not focus on the speculation outside of that,” said Sturridge. “It is about going there with the right mentality and the right frame of mind, and Jamie’s exactly that way. He is not worrying about anything other than England.” With an average age of 25 the Three Lions have the youngest squad at the tournament. It is also the youngest group England have ever taken to a European Championship, but Sturridge insists England’s relative inexperience is something to embrace rather than fear. “I don’t think age has anything to do with it. I think it is more so how you play as a team and gel as a team,” added Sturridge. “Look at Manchester United and other club sides that have had young squads and had a gelling period and been successful and I believe we can do that. This is a young squad. That is a strength not a weakness.” FOOTBALL Everton close in on Koeman as £5m package agreed with Saints ROSS MCLEAN @rossmcleanRMAC EVERTON moved a step closer to appointing Ronald Koeman as their new manager after agreeing a £5m compensation package with fellow Premier League outfit Southampton yesterday. The deal paves the way for Koeman, who has 12 months remaining on this contract, to call time on his two-year stay on the south coast and succeed Roberto Martinez, who was sacked as Everton boss last month following a season of struggle. Former Holland international Koeman, headhunted by new Everton majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri, is now expected to sign a deal believed to be worth in the region of £6m a year. The 53-year-old is set to take his brother and Southampton’s assistant manager Erwin Koeman, along with fitness coach Jan Kluitenberg, to Goodison Park with him. Koeman assumed the Southampton reins from now Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino and guided the Saints to seventh and sixth-placed Koeman guided Saints to Europa League finishes, which represented their best Premier League campaigns. Southampton will play Europa League football next season after sealing qualification by winning 12 of the final 18 matches last term, which has left former Saints and England forward Matthew Le Tissier querying the foresight of Koeman’s prospective move. “He may feel he has got a better chance of winning trophies at Everton. I’d be of a slightly different opinion,” said Le Tissier. “I understand they’ve got a new owner and want to splash a bit of cash, but it might not be as easy a job as he thinks. “Most clubs in the Premier League are pretty wealthy now and can compete in the transfer market. We just have to move on and look to the next man to take us forward again.” IN BRIEF UNITED SET TO POUNCE AND SEAL BAILLY DEAL £ FOOTBALL: Villarreal centre-half Eric Bailly is set to become Jose Mourinho’s first signing as Manchester United boss with the Old Trafford club shelling out a fee in the region of £30m. The 22-yearold, who has also played for Espanyol, joined Villarreal for £4.4m in January 2015 and played 35 matches for the Spanish outfit, which boasted one of the meanest defences in La Liga last season. Bailly also played every match as Ivory Coast won last year’s Africa Cup of Nations. WOODS RULES HIMSELF OUT OF US OPEN RETURN £ GOLF: Former world No1 Tiger Woods has confirmed he will miss next week’s US Open at Oakmont as he continues his recovery from injury. Woods has not played competitively since the Wyndham Championship in August 2015, following which he underwent two back operations in the space of six weeks. Woods said: “While I continue to work hard on getting healthy, I am not physically ready to play in this year’s US Open.”
CITYAM.COM WEDNESDAY 8 JUNE 2016 SPORT 27 PAYING RESPECT Britain’s Lennox Lewis to be pallbearer at Muhammad Ali’s funeral CRICKET England urged to lose late series woe and whitewash Sri Lanka ROSS MCLEAN @rossmcleanRMAC ENGLAND batting coach Mark Ramprakash has urged Alastair Cook’s side to relocate their ruthless streak and whitewash Sri Lanka by claiming victory in the third and final Investec Test at Lord’s, which starts on Thursday. The hosts hold an unassailable lead in the Test segment of the tour having racked up commanding victories at Chester-le-Street and Headingley, but have struggled over the past couple of years to end series on a high. England have lost the final match in each of their past five series, dating back to their tour of the West Indies in early 2015, something which Ramprakash is abundantly clear needs to change. “I think the players are very much aware of that,” he said. “I hope the lessons will have been learned because this group of players have come unstuck in the last Test, most recently in South Africa. That wasn’t a good feeling, so we hope Alastair Cook’s England have lost the last Test in their past five series the guys will want to finish the job off this week.” Pakistan seamer Mohammad Amir, meanwhile, who was banned and imprisoned for spot-fixing in a Test at Lord’s in 2010, is set to face England next month after being granted a visa. ATHELTICS PAIN IN THE NECK Rutherford sparks fitness worry over Rio Olympic Games OLYMPIC long jump champion Greg Rutherford has triggered fears over an injury setback less than two months before the start of this year’s Games in Rio de Janeiro. The 29-year-old tweeted yesterday that he was London-bound for a scan on his neck. RESULTS CRICKET ROYAL LONDON ONE-DAY CUP GROUP A—Durham v Derbyshire (Derby): Durham 216 (46.3 overs; R D Pringle 125). Derbyshire 218-3 (41.4 overs; B T Slater 119). Derbyshire (2pts) beat Durham by 7 wickets. Leicestershire v Warwickshire (Edgbaston): Leicestershire 237 (49.0 overs; K J K J O’Brien 77, R M L Taylor 62). Warwickshire 243-1 (41.0 overs; S R Hain 105no, W T S Porterfield 75). Warwickshire (2pts) beat Leicestershire by 9 wickets. Yorkshire v Worcestershire (Headingley Carnegie): Yorkshire 170 (45.2 overs). Worcestershire 171-3 (25.3 overs; J Leach 63). Worcestershire (2pts) beat Yorkshire by 7 wickets. GROUP B—Middlesex v Hampshire (Radlett): Middlesex 295-8 (50.0 overs; B B McCullum 74, E J G Morgan 52; M S Crane 4-80). Hampshire 204-5 (25.3 overs; L A Dawson 68no). Hampshire (2pts) beat Middlesex by 5 wickets (D/L Method). FOOTBALL INTERNATIONAL Spain ......................(0) 0 Georgia .......................(1) 1 Okriashvili 42 TENNIS WTA AEGON OPEN (Nottingham)—1st rnd: M Larcher De Brito (Por) bt L Robson (Gbr) 6-3 7-5, M Rybarikova (Svk) bt (6) H Watson (Gbr) 4-6 6-0 6-4, S Hsieh (Tpe) bt N Broady (Gbr) 6-2 6-1, T Moore (Gbr) bt D Vekic (Cro) 6-2 7-5. TODAY’S DIARY FOOTBALL International Portugal v Estonia (7.45) ................................................................................ CRICKET Royal London One-Day Cup (2pm) Group A: Northamptonshire v Lancashire (Northampton), Nottinghamshire v Warwickshire (Trent Bridge). Group B: Glamorgan v Sussex (The SWALEC Stadium), Gloucestershire v Middlesex (Bristol), Surrey v Somerset (The Kia Oval). NatWest t20 Blast - South Division: Kent v Hampshire (Canterbury, 6.30pm).
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