Liverpool rocked again as Van Dijk makes contract admission March 12, 2025 Liverpool have suffered another blow following their Champions League elimination after captain Virgil van Dijk admitted he may only have 10 games left at the club. Van Dijk, 33, is out of contract in the summer and the Dutchman insists he is still no nearer to knowing whether he will strike a new deal to [...]
Allianz extension insures IOC against further sponsor losses March 12, 2025 The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has further shored up its sponsor roster after losing several big clients by extending its partnership with Allianz to 2032. Allianz has also added a further four years to its deal with the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), which will conclude after the Brisbane 2032 Games. The insurance giant joined the [...]
Cheltenham hit by snow – but racing expected to go ahead on Wednesday March 12, 2025 Cheltenham chiefs expect racing to go ahead on Wednesday despite a surprise flurry of snow and temperatures of -2C ahead of the second day of the festival. The course got a dusting of the white stuff early this morning, raising fears that the 65,000 racegoers expected to attend Prestbury Park could be in for disappointment. [...]
The British Motorsport Valley businessman taking Formula 1 by storm March 12, 2025 Have you watched a McLaren going around a Formula 1 track in recent seasons and thought you’d seen the sponsors changing? Spoiler alert: you have. Much is said about the success of Britain’s Motorsport Valley, an area of the country at the heart of Formula 1 – and wider racing – development, technology and entrepreneurship. [...]
Eyebrows raised as Manchester United skip tender to hire Foster for stadium March 12, 2025 Manchester United are set to confirm Sir Norman Foster’s firm as architects of their planned £2bn, 100,000-seat stadium without running a formal tender process. The absence of an open tender has caused surprise in the industry, given United are a listed company on the New York Stock Exchange, while Sir Jim Ratcliffe has also taken [...]
Marine can spoil Jonbon’s Cheltenham party March 11, 2025 FOR THE racing purists, there’s nothing quite like the BetMGM Queen Mother Champion Chase (4.00pm). It’s a flat-out test over the minimum trip, and Jonbon heads the betting at a shade of odds-on. He’s been the dominant two-mile chaser this season, but it’s safe to say that he has his doubters. He has won on [...]
Final Demand to tame The Lion in the Turners March 11, 2025 ANYONE who watched The New Lion saunter home in the Challow Hurdle at Newbury over Christmas would have fancied him to follow up in today’s Turners Novices’ Hurdle (1:20pm). He breezed through the field to stamp his authority on this staying novice hurdle division and JP McManus was quick to make previous owner Darren Yates [...]
Galvin to write another chapter in Elliott’s cross country Story March 11, 2025 GROUND conditions on the Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase (3.20pm) course will be very different from 12 months ago when the race was abandoned because of a waterlogged track. The track has been drying out gradually all week with now plenty of ‘good’ patches on a unique course currently described as good-to-soft. This year’s renewal has [...]
Take it to the Max with Clegane in the Coral Cup March 11, 2025 CHELTENHAM handicaps are notoriously difficult to unravel and they don’t come much harder than this afternoon’s 26-runner Coral Cup (2.40pm). Dan Skelton, who has won the last two renewals with Langer Dan, saddles Be Aware and he has been a big ante-post springer. A fine second to Burdett Road in the Greatwood Hurdle, he looked [...]
Size and Avdulla hold all the Aces at Happy Valley March 11, 2025 BANK on jockey Brenton Avdulla to continue his rich vein of form when the in-form pilot arrives at Happy Valley in Hong Kong today for half-a-dozen rides on the nine-race programme. There never seems to be a meeting go by in the city recently where Avdulla leaves empty-handed, and that is born out by his [...]