Now for what had been declared an implausible quest in Berlin tonight. Dare a vibrant Italy finally prod Zidane and awaken him from his dream?"We don't want to stop now," Zizou had said after he and Thierry Henry had combined successfully against Brazil in the quarter-finals - astonishingly, the first time he had fashioned a

They also confirm similar journeys from English Schools' to Olympic glory by Steve Ovett of Sussex, Francis "Daley" Thompson of London, Sally Gunnell of Essex. Hence the presence of the massed ranks of the British Athletics Writers' Association on the banks of the Tyne rather than the Seine - and, more importantly, of Daley Thompson,

Everyone knew that the main danger that the crops posed was that they would cross-pollinate with nearby plants, creating superweeds, So the tests avoided this issue altogether, focusing on the relatively minor issue of the effects of weedkiller on them.Everyone expected this jiggery-pokery to succeed - including the environmental campaigners who repeatedly pulled up the

I don't even have a name for it.""We'll come up with something," Dash says, bouncing with delight "It's all good We got food, we got drink We have a long night ahead.". It's 10.50am in Soho and Vince Power, the founder and former boss of Mean Fiddler, is 20 minutes late for the interview. So

I didn't want to sell it, but Rupert wanted to sell and I'm delighted now because if it had been sold now and not last June, the price would have been 30 per cent down. He emerged bruised from a bid to turn round the debt-laden magazine publishers Highbury House - "bloody painful for me

Any decent medium-big provincial town in Old Europe has a mini Bond or Sloane Street. And have you seen how the Italian rich live?But whatever our experience, however warmly Chiantishire our feelings, we all take on a bit of American neo-con when we talk about the institutions of European-ness. Is there any one of you