Stuart Pearce claims Jack Wilshere won’t even kick a ball for England at the World Cup. The former England Under-21 coach claims the Arsenal midfielder is short of form and confidence ahead of the opening game against Italy in Manaus on Saturday. Pearce told talkSPORT: ‘I think there are five players that will not kick a ball at the World Cup. Forster and Foster are the obvious ones and I think Shaw, Smalling and Wilshere will be the others. Bench mark? Jack Wilshere will not get any playing time at the World Cup, according to Stuart Pearce 'I think he [Wilshere] is very, very short of form. Watching the last game [against Honduras] I didn’t see a Wilshere that sprung on the scene many months ago.

‘He had a very disappointing last game and he has not shown me the fully fit
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Jack Wilshere we saw when he came on the scene.’


In the hometown of The Greatest, it seemed only appropriate to talk about 12 rounds. Twelve rounds of golf that have changed the sport’s landscape entirely and will go down in the annals as creating a new standard for the European game. Spread over three tournaments, what began in bright sunlight on the ancient links at Hoylake at The Open in July ended on Sunday in darkness on the modern stadium course at Valhalla in Louisville. Rory McIlroy went into those trio of events with doubts about his ability to play the most venerable form of the game; with freaky Fridays swirling his conscience.

And then at
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Valhalla came the gossamer touch and all the guts and heart a golfer can display.


(CNN) -- Out with seekers and brooms. In with stirrups and hooves. This is horseball, where rugby meets basketball on horseback -- but players have more fun comparing it to quidditch, the sport of Harry Potter's wizarding world. "I usually ask people if they've seen the Harry Potter movies," says British horseball player Jamie Gibson. "Quidditch is the nearest comparison I can think of. That usually gets people going." While Potter and teammates pick up gruesome injuries with disturbing ease playing quidditch, full-contact horseball does at least feature helmets. "It looks a little bit violent, but it isn't," says Frederico Cannas, the sport's president, who began playing as a teenager in his native Portugal.

Gibson believes
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France's senior men's team has never been beaten at international level.