Burnley director creates $1.2bn sport investment fund April 21, 2025 Burnley FC director Dave Checketts is fronting up a new $1.2bn (£900m) private equity fund with a wealthy Utah family. Checketts, part-owner of the Clarets, is teaming up with the Eccles family – whose prominent member Spencer is on the Salt Lake organising committee for the 2034 Winter Olympics – to form the Cynosure | [...]
All Italian football postponed following death of Pope Francis April 21, 2025 Italian football chiefs have postponed all games due to be played today, including four in Serie A, following the death of Pope Francis. The fixtures affected include key games in the race for Champions League qualification involving Juventus, who were due to face Parma, and Lazio, who were to meet Genoa. Pope Francis died aged [...]
Rising Ballers: From Foden DMs to Nike campaigns and multi-million revenue April 21, 2025 How three friends turned the Rising Ballers Instagram account into a lucrative content business, via Phil Foden, Jamal Edwards, Iliman Ndiaye and some big life decisions. Jamie Pollitt vividly remembers the day that changed his life. He was spending more time on his hobby – a social media account showcasing promising young footballers – than [...]
2025 World Snooker Championship prize money: How much does the winner get? April 20, 2025 The great and good of world snooker have descended on the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield for the World Snooker Championship. England’s Kyren Wilson beat Welshman Jak Jones in last year’s final to take home the trophy in snooker’s greatest competition. This year one of Zhao Xintong or Mark Williams will lift the trophy. The prize [...]
Uefa Women’s Champions League prize money: How much can Arsenal get? April 19, 2025 The Uefa Women’s Champions League returns to London this afternoon as Arsenal take on Lyon in the first leg of their semi-final. The Gunners are the only English team to ever win the prestigious title and back when they won it – in 2007 – there was no prize money. That has changed, however, with [...]
Bundle ready to Award Size and Purton another win April 18, 2025 HONG Kong racegoers can look forward to a mixed bag of racing at Sha Tin on Sunday, where action will be divided between five races on the all-weather surface and five on the turf track. Although the title charge by the John Size stable has slowed down in recent weeks – he sent out 13 [...]
Atzeni’s Star can rise further aboard South April 18, 2025 WITH an impressive total of 13 winners in the past month, there is no jockey in Hong Kong, Zac Purton included, who is riding better than former UK pilot Andrea Atzeni. The 34-year-old Sardinian-born rider, presently sitting third in the jockeys’ championship table with 43 wins, is guaranteed to surpass last season’s best total of [...]
Lloyds warns Arsenal fans over Champions League ticket scams April 18, 2025 Arsenal fans have been warned to watch out for ticket scams surrounding the Champions League final. The Gunners toppled Galacticos Real Madrid over two legs to set up a semi-final against Paris Saint-Germain. But should they beat the Ligue 1 champions, a final in Munich awaits against either Barcelona or Inter Milan. It has prompted [...]
Rugby: The Henry hype is far from a load of Pollocks, he’s class April 18, 2025 I did laugh to myself when I saw the abuse Northampton Saints star Henry Pollock got for his celebration during his side’s Investec Champions Cup victory over Castres last weekend. I thought: “What a load of bollocks!” The 20-year-old has a swagger about him, he reminds me of a cross between Lewis Moody and Lawrence [...]
Away ends in Premiership Rugby have arrived, but what do fans think? April 18, 2025 One of the commandments of the “Rugby Values” brigade is the ability for home and away fans to sit next to each other, enjoy a beer and have some healthy banter. For the vast majority of rugby fans this approach is the preferred one, with the kettling of supporters pre-and post-match – as is the [...]