SLAMS FOR SMASHES Badminton is keen on getting its circuit jazzed up, and though everything’s going quite smooth if you ask us, the sport wants to create tennis like Grand Slams. Indonesians have come with their sports songs, while Scottish home fans play 500 Miles on loop — except they seem to know when to shout and when to not. Foreign coach in India… before you finish your contract, you will be fired, says Roelant Oltmans. Hockey India, the sport’s governing body, decided to sack him following a three-day meeting of its 24-member High Performance and Development Committee. Liverpool insist that Saturday’s claim by director Albert Soler that the club offered to sell Coutinho for 200 million eurosis false. “We believe no players should be made to pose for pictures or their wrists bothered by asking for their autographs,” Japanese Huaroclaims. Shivani Naik answers these questions as she captures the sights and sounds from the badminton fandom at Glasgow. John’s appointment as the high performance director earlier this year created two power centres. This is the fourth consecutive year the Brit has taken pole at Monza which is widely regarded as the fastest circuit in the F1 calendar. The introduction of the pacey Marcus Rashford gave England more of an edge in the absence of the inj.