RFU: No relegation from Premiership or Championship this season February 12, 2021 The Rugby Football Union has confirmed that there will be no relegation from either the Premiership or Championship at the end of the current season. One team will be promoted from the Championship, meaning next year’s Premiership will consist of 13 teams, and the Championship 11. That team is widely expected to be Saracens, who [...]
EP:39 Hong Kong & Cheltenham Outsiders February 12, 2021 Unfortunately, the weather is the winner this weekend, with both Newbury & Warwick calling off their meetings. Warwick will now race on Monday with Newbury being transferred to next Sunday. Trainer Harry Fry still intends to run a couple of his horses in the re-arranged fixtures and we talk to him today. We also discuss [...]
Ollie Phillips’ Six Nations predictions: England to bully poor Italy; impressive Ireland won’t be pushovers for France; Scotland too good for Wales February 12, 2021 It’s not as if we didn’t see the problems coming with England before their defeat to Scotland in last week’s Six Nations opener. Physicality is the minimum requirement at international rugby but you need more than that. England had lacked ingenuity. And, sure enough, Scotland totally outfoxed the holders at in every area of the [...]
Tokyo 2020 chief quits after sexist remarks towards women February 12, 2021 Yoshiro Mori, chief of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, resigned on Friday over sexist remarks that sparked a global outcry. The former Japanese prime minister received a backlash when he said during an Olympic committee meeting earlier this month that ‘women talk too much’. Mori’s resignation comes months before the postponed games are scheduled to begin, [...]
How Tokyo plans to stage a safe Olympics this year – and why cancellation remains the last resort February 12, 2021 In spite of the relatively upbeat mood music emanating from the corridors of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), nagging questions about whether the Games can be safely staged this summer have persisted. But the organisers of the world’s largest sporting event have now given the world the first concrete indications of how they propose to [...]
Week in Sportbiz: English football puts the boot into Twitter and Facebook; Rolex deal shows value of golf tours’ alliance; dystopian snack marketing February 11, 2021 It is rare to see all of English football sing from the same hymnsheet. But that was in evidence today as the game’s leading bodies joined forces to demand more action from Twitter and Facebook against racist, sexist and threatening behaviour. The Premier League, Football Association, English Football League, Women’s Professional Game, players’ union the [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Millard’s Land to Power home February 11, 2021 FORMER South African champion trainer Tony Millard has his stable firing on all cylinders at present. Gallant Crown’s success at Happy Valley on Wednesday took the 59-year-old’s total to 15 winners for the season, with three of them coming at the last four meetings. Millard is renowned for paying particular care and attention to his [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Missile can surge to victory for Purton February 11, 2021 WITH arch-rival Joao Moreira sitting out the New Year celebrations at Sha Tin, reigning champ Zac Purton must be looking to make inroads into what appears to be an unassailable lead of thirty in the jockeys’ title race. The Australian has a couple of high-profile mounts on the Richard Gibson-trained Wellington, who faces tough opposition [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: California Rad to kick off Chinese New Year in style February 11, 2021 SHA TIN in Hong Kong hosts its annual Chinese New Year race-day on Sunday with an 11-race programme, worth around £1.7millon in prize-money. This is the one day in the Hong Kong racing calendar when the majority of the local population will be seeking to make ‘lucky money’ and start their New Year off with [...]
Tokyo 2020 Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori set to quit in sexism storm just months before Games February 11, 2021 Yoshiro Mori, the president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics organising committee, is expected to quit over a sexism row. Mori, 83, has faced widespread calls to resign since saying that women talk too much earlier this month. The former prime minster of Japan is set to step down at a board meeting tomorrow, local media [...]