FA vows to investigate after West Ham home match against Watford marred by crowd disturbances September 11, 2016 The Football Association has confirmed it intends to make further enquiries into allegations of fighting among spectators during West Ham’s Premier League match against Watford on Saturday. It is the third time in as many matches that disturbances have been reported at the London Stadium, the former Olympic Stadium and the Hammers’ home since last month. [...]
Football betting tips: Leicester to come unstuck against Liverpool at Anfield September 9, 2016 LEICESTER only lost three times on their march to the title last season. On Saturday they return to the scene of one of those defeats – Anfield – and I think they will leave Merseyside empty-handed again. This view is backed up by the bookies. The Foxes are a best-priced 19/4 with Betway, who offer [...]
Fifa begins formal proceedings against Sepp Blatter, Markus Klattner and Jerome Valcke September 9, 2016 Football's governing body said today it has launched an official investigation into former president Sepp Blatter. In a statement, Fifa said its ethics committee had opened formal proceedings against Blatter and two other former officials, Jerome Valcke, who was secretary general, and Markus Kattner, former acting secretary general and director of finance and corporate services. [...]
Football betting tips: Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola all set for Manchester derby September 9, 2016 YOU DON’T win the league on one result, but a big loss can see the wheels soon fall of a title challenge. It was a 5-0 defeat to Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona that put the writing on the wall for Jose Mourinho’s Real Madrid in 2010/11, and the Special One has been smarting ever since. The [...]
Dame Sarah Storey makes history as ParalympicsGB enjoy golden start to Games September 9, 2016 Para-cyclist Dame Sarah Storey was elevated to the status of the nation’s most successful female Paralympian of all time after winning the 12th gold medal of her career on a glory-filled opening day of the Paralympic Games for Great Britain. The 38-year-old moved beyond wheelchair racer Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson with her latest gold after she [...]
Spanish giants Real and Atletico Madrid fail to overturn transfer bans and cannot field new signings until January 2018 September 8, 2016 Real Madrid and city rivals Atletico are not permitted to field any new signings until January 2018 after both clubs lost their appeals against transfer bans handed out by world governing body Fifa. The Spanish giants were punished by Fifa’s disciplinary committee in January after being found to have breached regulations governing the transfer of [...]
The Naked Magicians is a lovely show about two men who do card tricks for a while and then get their penises out September 8, 2016 Now that we all live in the future and can summon an infinite parade of willies and foofs with just a few lazy swipes of our thumb, on-stage nudity doesn’t carry the giddying air of scandal it used to. The Naked Magicians feels like a cabaret show from the pre-internet era, the sort of hotel [...]
You Say You Want A Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970 at the V&A is a chaotic, messy but satisfyingly psychedelic trip September 8, 2016 We’re not exactly short of gushing eulogies of the late 1960s, but the V&A’s new exhibition does at least allow us another chance to ponder the formative years of a generation many blame for the near-breakdown of western civilisation. Records and Rebels does little to disprove the theory that baby boomers had their cake and [...]
Vanities is a hilarious musical comedy charting the life journeys of three cheerleaders September 8, 2016 Vanities is a musical comedy that follows the fate of three childhood friends, from their days as boundlessly energetic cheerleaders in a Dallas high school in the mid-1960s to their lives as three very different adult women. Mary, Joanne and Kathy each have their own clear aspirations for the future, but shared among them is [...]
Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino plays down Harry Kane’s goalscoring woes September 8, 2016 Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino has doused concerns over goal-shy striker Harry Kane and backed the England forward to rejoin the goalscoring trail when his side travel to Stoke on Saturday. Kane has not scored for 10 matches, since England’s pre-European Championship warm-up clash with Turkey at the City of Manchester Stadium in May. The 23-year-old [...]