Manchester United 1, Zorya Luhansk 0: Zlatan Ibrahimovic demands more from tepid Reds after stuttering Europa League victory September 29, 2016 Match-winner Zlatan Ibrahimovic demanded an upturn in quality from his team-mates after Manchester United stuttered to a slender and unconvincing victory against unheralded Ukrainian outfit Zorya Luhansk. Former Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain striker Ibrahimovic proved the difference between the two sides, settling a tepid encounter against a team which finished fourth in the Ukrainian top-flight last [...]
Eddie Howe and Alan Pardew distance themselves from succeeding Sam Allardyce as England boss September 29, 2016 Highly-rated Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe has moved to distance himself from succeeding Sam Allardyce as England manager despite describing the role as the ultimate job. Howe was linked with the position in the summer after the departure of Roy Hodgson following a dismal Euro 2016 campaign, and his name is again in the mix alongside [...]
Bedwyr Williams’ The Gulch at The Barbican is brilliantly weird September 29, 2016 You’re greeted at the entrance of the Barbican’s Curve gallery with a polite warning: “If you want to perform – sing, dance, that kind of thing – please be respectful of other visitors”. I wasn’t tempted to burst into song, but it’s a suitably surreal way to enter this brilliantly weird exhibition. This site-specific installation [...]
Wales boss Chris Coleman demands life bans for those guilty of financial impropriety in football September 29, 2016 Wales boss Chris Coleman has urged football authorities to adopt a zero-tolerance approach and impose life bans on anybody found guilty of corruption within the game. The 46-year-old, who guided Wales to the semi-finals of Euro 2016 in the summer, made his assertions after a stream of allegations this week of financial impropriety in football. [...]
The Libertine at Theatre Royal Haymarket starring Dominic Cooper fails to deliver on its salacious promises September 29, 2016 The Libertine begins with a promise. Dominic Cooper, as Restoration rake the Earl of Rochester, delivers a swaggering prologue, directly informing the audience that although they may like some of what he does, they will not like him. This speech is an implicit bargain; that he will behave appallingly, and the audience will be thrilled [...]
Floyd Collins at Wilton’s Music Hall review: clever staging and a strong cast can’t mask this poor musical September 29, 2016 Floyd Collins is a musical about a man stuck in a hole, and there were moments during this production that I felt like I was down there with him, waiting interminably in the darkness for the sweet release of death. Despite a strong cast and clever staging, exceptionally poor pacing makes Adam Guettel’s musical – [...]
Andrew Luck: Meet the St John’s Wood kid who returns to London this weekend as the NFL’s highest-paid player September 29, 2016 Thousands of Londoners will gather this weekend to gain a first hand look at the work of a former neighbour who has since left the UK, graduated from Stanford and become the highest paid member of his profession at just 26-years-old. The venue for the exhibition is Wembley, the event is the NFL’s 15th game [...]
Interview: Comedian Peter Serafinowicz on his horrifying, mesmerising Sassy Trump creation September 29, 2016 When Donald Trump kicked a crying baby out of one his rallies, Peter Serafinowicz rubbed his hands together and got to work. The comedian’s latest project, a YouTube series called Sassy Trump, takes the Republican nominee’s actual words and redubs them in a sassy voice that perfectly matches the man’s curiously effete mannerisms – his [...]
Swiss Army Man review: Daniel Radcliffe dumps over his wizard legacy from the greatest possible height September 29, 2016 The first thing Daniel Radcliffe did after he finished being Harry Potter was flash his junk in Equus, and ever since then he’s been upping the ante, scaling ever greater heights from whence he can shit on his wizarding legacy. He played a jerk version of himself in BoJack Horseman, he threw Nazi salutes in [...]
Joe Root set for £1m pay deal as England cricket chiefs confirm biggest shake-up to central contract system for more than a decade September 29, 2016 England cricket chiefs have confirmed the biggest shake-up to the way that the country’s centrally-contracted players are paid for more than a decade. The England and Wales Cricket Board have for the first time awarded central contracts to regulars in the one-day team as well as those in the Test side. Mainstays of both teams, [...]