Usmanov 動かすs the 在庫／株 マリファナ in 兵器庫 力／強力にする 戦う／戦い

Updated: 00:50 BST, 25 May 2011

ロシアの 億万長者 Alisher Usmanov is flexing his muscles in the?兵器庫 力／強力にする 戦う／戦い by 申し込む／申し出ing to buy 株 at a higher price than controlling stakeholder Stan Kroenke.

Usmanov, placed second in the 最新の Sunday Times rich 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） with £12.2billion, ha s 教えるd his 仲買人s to go up to £14,000 per 株. Kroenke has 申し込む／申し出d £11,750.

Usmanov, who has 27.3 per cent of 兵器庫 compared to Kroenke's 判決，裁定 63 per cent 持つ／拘留するing, has made his move for the remaining 火刑／賭ける - a little under 10 per cent of the club - after 存在 snubbed by the American.

Sweetening the マリファナ: ロシアの 億万長者 Alisher Usmanov ups the 賭け金 at 兵器庫

Silent Stan won't 会合，会う Usmanov 直面する to 直面する, let alone 申し込む／申し出 him a seat on the board 相応した with his shareholding.

The ロシアの, who was 支払う／賃金ing a 賞与金 £12,500 for clusters of 株 this week, had his written request for a 会合 with Kroenke turned 負かす／撃墜する. The 返答 was that if Usmanov 手配中の，お尋ね者 to talk he should do so 経由で Kroenke's lawyers.

The shambolic RFU have opened themselves up to more valid 批評 by 任命するing 管理／経営 board member Peter Baines to lead an 調査 into their botched 追跡 of Sir Clive Woodward.

Retired solicitor Baines could be said to have a 衝突 of 利益／興味 having 行為／法令／行動するd for Woodward - who has 拒絶するd the RFU's 業績／成果 director 地位，任命する - from 1997 to 2005.

The pair remain good friends. An RFU 広報担当者 said Baines was the obvious choice as chairman of governance.

一方／合間, to 追加する to RFU spin doctor Peter Thomas's problems over the farce, he has lost his laptop.

It was stolen from the 支援する of his car in a 粉砕する-and-得る，とらえる 窃盗 in Hammersmith.

Thomas says all confidential data was kept on a memory stick.

Thankfully, there's no chance of the どろぼう making sense of any info emanating from disfunctional Twickenham.

A 審理，公聴会 was 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d yesterday in the 名誉き損 事例／患者 IMG has brought against ECB chairman Giles Clarke, in which both 味方するs have run up seven-人物／姿／数字 costs.

I understand a 決定／判定勝ち（する） was made but I would not be able to 明らかにする／漏らす the result as 報告（する）／憶測ing 制限s are in place. Over to Twitter.

商売／仕事 大君 David Ross, the co-創立者 of Carphone 倉庫／問屋, is believed to be the 最新の 新採用する to the British Olympic 協会 board and will also 議長，司会を務める their audit 委員会.

Ross's 財政上の 専門的知識 is much needed by the BOA after their 基金ing 列／漕ぐ／騒動 fiasco with London 2012.

Belinda Moore, the third wife of loveable rugby pundit Brian Moore, is leaving the BBC to join the BOA as 長，率いる of 競技者 約束／交戦. She will be 責任がある 準備するing Team GB's friends and family for the Games.

Wenger skips dinner

The presence of Carlo Ancelotti at the League 経営者／支配人s 協会 dinner, just 24 hours after 存在 解雇（する）d by Chelsea, only 最高潮の場面d the continued absence of Arsene Wenger.

The LMA have made big 成果／努力s to engage foreign 経営者／支配人s for the union's 旗艦 event and were rewarded by Ancelotti and axed West Ham boss Avram 認める 前線ing up at the Park 小道／航路 Hilton にもかかわらず losing their 職業s.

Different 一打／打撃s: Wenger (left) shuns the limelight, but Ancelotti (権利) revels in London life

Yet Wenger, who went on holiday hours before Monday night's event, has rarely appeared at the 年次の 機能（する）／行事 during 15 years as 兵器庫 boss, にもかかわらず 存在 高度に supportive of the LMA in other ways and doing a question-and-answer 開会／開廷／会期 と一緒に Sir Alex Ferguson.

Friends of Wenger say he doesn't enjoy big social occasions.

However, Italian Ancelotti loves life in London and will be keeping his house in the 資本／首都 in 予期 of another Barclays 首相 League 職業.

Ferguson is so integral to the LMA that he received his three awards and took part in a 噴出するing interview 経由で ビデオ link from Old Trafford, where he had been watching 部隊d （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Sheffield 部隊d in the FA 青年 Cup final.

一方／合間, the football governance Select 委員会 are making the most of the limelight with three MPs, Paul Farrelly, Alan Keen and Therese Coffey, guests at the dinner - as was Plymouth 行政官／管理者 Brendan Guilfoyle. At least the skint club didn't 支払う／賃金 for a （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する.