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season. We will also have news on defeat for Scotland in their opening | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
match of cricket's Twenty20 World Cup. | :00:00. | :00:19. | |
Welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will bring tomorrow. | :00:20. | :00:27. | |
Michael Booker is the deputy editor of the express. It was a brief | :00:28. | :00:37. | |
moment of power. We will start with the Financial Times, Louise. Maria | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
Sharapova. She has a few problems. Indeed she does. On the front of the | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
Financial Times, there is a brief list of the big sponsors that she | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
has lost, or at least who are wondering about their position with | :00:53. | :01:02. | |
her. Night, Portia, Tahheuer. -- Porsche. She is the first tennis | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
star who has been found to have taken a banned substance. She owned | :01:10. | :01:20. | |
something like $20 million in 2015 --... It is the tie-ups with | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
companies that have made her far wealthier than the earnings for | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
winning tournaments. These are some long-term contract. Nike, supposedly | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
a deal worth $7 million over eight years. She has been with them over a | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
decade. Tahheuer, the Swiss watchmaker, apparently she has had a | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
contract with them since 2005. Porsche, more recent. It is | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
interesting how quickly the corporate sponsors have moved to | :01:49. | :01:57. | |
suspend her. I just saw the film about Lance Armstrong, and even | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
fever in the World Cup, it is surprising how quickly they have | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
suspended. -- they have suspended her. She has done very well out of | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
these, and they have done very well out of her over the years. Otherwise | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
they would have not paid the money. Exactly. They have suspended and | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
postponed, mealy-mouthed words from businesses. They always say that. | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
But you can imagine, if this is investigated, and yesterday when she | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
did the press conference and people were saying, this is her trying to | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
seize the narrative of it all, and say, I have made this huge mistake | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
to stop it is almost in the please forgive me world. It is like | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
choosing, I didn't realise, it was a big mistake. For a decade! She has | :02:49. | :02:57. | |
not gone as far as a nit is a health problem. You could see... It's | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
better they have suspended her than that they haven't. You can see there | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
is our way back for them and there is a way back for hire. It is a | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
lucrative business for both of them. That is the next bit. Rush to | :03:15. | :03:24. | |
suspend Sharapova shows depth of drug problem, that's in the | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
Telegraph. In Australia, where she was tested positive for this drug, | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
they says she is a professional, that it is out of character. Great | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
integrity. The problem is, she's been taking this drug for ten years, | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
and it is suspected of potentially being able to increase blood flow to | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
the heart, which gives you extra in June and is. And yet she has | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
continued to take it. It was only band at the end of last year. We | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
have known about it for one day and it sets off alarm bells. It was an | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
angina joke as well. Jazz mac angina drug. Why would you take a drug for | :04:05. | :04:17. | |
your heart with all kinds of risks that as if you didn't actually need | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
to do it? That is the big question over all of this. You could put the | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
headline on this story - they still don't get it. In some of the | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
sports... That is what they are saying. People depend on these | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
people for so much money that they do try to push it under the carpet. | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
That's why, in all of the sports - athletics, tennis - the Russians are | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
quoted as saying that this is nonsense and there are no problems. | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
When we still have federations like that having that attitude, this will | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
keep happening. At the same time, when we have her people, and I | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
imagine she has a big team getting paid a lot, and they need her to | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
survive and keep the big paycheques coming, they will try to news manage | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
this, but reading from Paul Hayward, who has written this piece, they | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
don't get it and the rest of us understand that. They live in this | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
weird bubble where they think they can get away with it. The stunning | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
quote, actually, this is from Steve Simon, head of the women's tennis | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
Association, so he the head of the association. His exact quote is: I | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
am very saddened to hear this about Maria. One would think he would be | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
saddened because of the damage to his board, but that is not what | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
saddens him. It is that Maria, again I quote: Maria is our leader, and I | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
have always known how to be a woman of great integrity. If that is the | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
head of the tennis Association, it kind of says it all. OK. The cartoon | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
on the front of the Telegraph. It is quite interesting, isn't it? | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
Don't take this if you're driving or if you have a 49 million pounds | :06:05. | :06:14. | |
we've all become overnight experts in this banned drug. Reading from | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
the people who made it, they say they are this -- that they prescribe | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
it for six weeks at a time. She has taken it for ten years. He works for | :06:30. | :06:47. | |
the Daily Express, come on! This is the big question. Someone | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
has been speculating on Twitter that if this were Serena Williams, we may | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
have a different situation. There are a lot of people saying, I told | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
you so. With Maria Sharapova, it is the opposite. It is, oh no, she must | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
have made a big mistake. That is the world we live in. Not very nice, is | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
it. I like the comment from the Telegraph sports writer that the | :07:16. | :07:25. | |
Russian tennis Federation says there is nothing... Two of their leading | :07:26. | :07:36. | |
sports administrators have committed suicide, have been found dead. I | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
like the metro's front-page - game over. It all depends on the band. If | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
it is four years, then she is 29, and that probably is it. If it is to | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
make years, which a lot of people are suggesting because there was a | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
mea culpa, then she could go to the Court of arbitration in sport and | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
get it down to one year, in which case Nike and all the others would | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
come straight back in. How? If you are found guilty of cheating... I | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
just don't get it. She says she has taken it for ten years - why isn't | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
it a lifetime ban is like it was only banned at the end of last year. | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
Even though there were so many suspicions about it. | :08:25. | :08:34. | |
Another sport is a news story. The front page of the matter again. | :08:35. | :08:45. | |
Boss covered for Johnson. It is since he was found guilty last week, | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
there has been a lot of pressure on Sunderland to save what they knew | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
and when. Today, they have come out with this statement. The chief | :08:54. | :09:02. | |
executive has designed, is... She saw a note saying that he had | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
admitted he had kissed the 15-year-old. Everyone else apart | :09:07. | :09:15. | |
from the chief executive was cleansed of guilt at the football | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
club. In a subsequent statement, Sunderland have said that Adam | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
Johnson lied to them all the way along. He said he was going to plead | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
not guilty. She said because he did accept some of the offences before | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
the trial. So, it does seem as though she has boxed it all off so | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
as not to blame anyone else at Sunderland. If you take it that | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
these value, she is the CEO. The buck stops with her. But use smell a | :09:44. | :09:54. | |
rat. -- but you smell a rat. It is nicely boxed. She is saying, it is | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
all my fault. She has been at Sunderland for a few years and is | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
very well thought of in the club, I am not sure about the fans. She has | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
taken a bullet for the rest of the team. It seems. To me. It is | :10:08. | :10:19. | |
suggested that she saw 834 of these sex texts. Which is difficult to | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
say. She saw them and she still thought it was acceptable for him to | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
continue. I find that exceedingly odd. 834 - even you and I don't text | :10:29. | :10:38. | |
each other that much. Come on, that is a lot of texts. It was a | :10:39. | :10:48. | |
struggling football club that needed an England international. So I | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
asked, would they do that to their daughters? You are going to be back | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
in an hour to look at more of the stories on the front pages. Many | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
things that. Much more coming up. Right now, Sportsday. | :11:03. | :11:13. | |
Hello and welcome to Sportsday - I'm John Watson. | :11:14. | :11:14. | |
Coming up tonight: Arsenal score four as they beat Hull in their FA | :11:15. | :11:20. |