$15m FedEx Cup play-offs offer Tommy Fleetwood chance to go one better than his runner-up finish at The Open August 5, 2019 With a $15m top prize for the winner, the FedEx Cup play-offs, which begin this week at the Northern Trust and conclude with the Tour Championship later this month, have become a huge event in the golf calendar. The format of the competition doesn’t always make it easy to follow but the rewards on offer [...]
England face monumental challenge to save first Ashes Test after another Smith century August 4, 2019 How do you solve a problem like Steve Smith? England may have dismissed the former Australian captain twice in the first Test match at Edgbaston, but it took them 426 attempts, came at the cost of 286 runs and the chance of making a winning start to the Ashes. England began day four with hope, [...]
Kevin De Bruyne shines as Manchester City beat Liverpool to the Community Shield at Wembley August 4, 2019 They say you can’t read too much into the Community Shield, especially when it’s won through the lottery of penalties, but Manchester City’s victory over Liverpool at Wembley still meant something. The two sides returned to action after battling it out last season, matching each other goal for goal and result for result, only for [...]
Steve Smith’s wonderful 144 sees Australia bounce back from Stuart Broad barrage on day one of the Ashes August 1, 2019 Today was a big day for Steve Smith. The first day of an away Ashes series and, more pertinently, the first Test match 16 months on from his very public shaming, lying, tears and grovelling. The pressure was on at Edgbaston, but Smith didn’t show it, blocking out the boos with a typically patient, dogged [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Beat Le Bon or What’s My Story can secure Golden Mile glory August 1, 2019 WE HAVE already seen some incredible horses at Goodwood this week and this afternoon Battaash gets the opportunity to match Stradivarius’ feat by winning at this meeting for a third straight year. Charlie Hills’ speedball is ideally suited to this downhill track and as long as he doesn’t boil over in the preliminaries, the Group [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Classy Skyline can give Elsworth more Goodwood success August 1, 2019 A NUMBER of runners in tomorrow’s Qatar Summer Handicap (2.25pm) will have aspirations of taking part in the Sky Bet Ebor at the end of the month. Like with many of Goodwood’s tricky handicaps, the market is headed by a Mark Johnston runner. He saddles King’s Advice who bids to give his trainer a third [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Fallon set for Raucous ride in his first Stewards’ Cup August 1, 2019 BACK in 1861 as many as 45 horses lined up for the Stewards’ Cup (3.40pm), though not all of them passed the starting tape due to a severe lack of competent jockeys. The number of starters for tomorrow’s £250,000 six-furlong cavalry charge now stands at 28 and you can be sure that every member of [...]
The Community Shield has been called a glorified friendly but what is it worth to the winners? August 1, 2019 It has been 61 days since Liverpool lifted the European Cup in Madrid and this weekend the wait for club football to return will be over. August has arrived, the sun is shining and on Sunday we’re heading back to Wembley. It can only mean one thing: the Community Shield. The traditional curtain-raiser to a [...]
Brentford are getting Premier League ready behind the scenes as they prepare to bid farewell to Griffin Park August 1, 2019 The beginning of a new season is a special occasion for every football fan, but for those at Brentford, Saturday’s Championship fixture against Birmingham will hold extra significance. It will be the final time the Bees kick off their campaign at Griffin Park before moving on to pastures new – 0.5 miles up the road, [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Maqsad can serve it up to Hermosa in Nassau Stakes July 31, 2019 THERE isn’t a race I have been looking forward to more all week than this afternoon’s Qatar Nassau Stakes (3.35pm). When the entries first came out my eyes were immediately drawn to dual 1000 Guineas winner HERMOSA who finally steps up to the trip she has seemingly been crying out for. The daughter of Galileo [...]