Wiggins, Cavendish and Trott seal golden sign off at Track Cycling World Championships in London March 6, 2016 Four-time Olympic champion Sir Bradley Wiggins basked in the glory of winning madison gold alongside Great Britain team-mate Mark Cavendish on the final day of the Track Cycling World Championships at the London velodrome yesterday. Cavendish fell inside the final 10 laps of the non-Olympic event although by that stage the duo held an unassailable [...]
UFC 196 Conor McGregor v Nate Diaz purse: How much will fighters earn from biggest ever pay day? March 5, 2016 UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor is set to make $1m (£700,000/€900,000) from his fight with Nate Diaz at UFC 196 on Saturday night – the largest purse in the history of the sport. The purses for the bout, disclosed by the Nevada State Athletic commission, reveal Diaz will earn just $500,000 with no win bonus. [...]
While you were watching Arsenal v Tottenham, football’s lawmakers announced fundamental changes to video replay rules March 5, 2016 Football's lawmakers have given the green light to trials of video replay technology being used for the "game changing decisions" of red cards, penalties, mistaken identities and goals. On Saturday, the International Football Associations Board, made up of the four home nations FAs and Fifa, said it had made a "historic decision" regarding the laws [...]
European super league criticised by FA chief executive Martin Glenn who says it could not offer “Leicester phenomenon” March 5, 2016 Football Association chief executive Martin Glenn has poured scorn on the prospect of the Premier League's biggest clubs breaking away to form a European Super League. Directors from five Premier League clubs met in London this week to discuss the format of European competition with American sports executive Charlie Stilitano, sparking speculation a European super league was [...]
Stats reveal Alexis Sanchez’s startling slump in form – should Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger drop him for the trip to Tottenham? March 4, 2016 It’s easy to forget that little over a year ago, some pundits questioned whether Barcelona had made a mistake in selling Alexis Sanchez to Arsenal for £35m in the summer of 2014. Sanchez was a leading candidate to be named Premier League player of the season following 16 goals in his first 28 games for [...]
London Has Fallen film review and other big releases this weekend March 4, 2016 London Has Fallen (15) | Dir. Babak Najafi ★★☆☆☆ Olympus Has Fallen was a surprise hit three years ago thanks to some old school plotting and a tailor made action hero in Gerard Butler. He returns as CIA Agent Mike Banning, who must protect the President (Aaron Eckhart) when the funeral of the British PM is [...]
England to play Euro 2016 warm-up games at Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium and Sunderland’s Stadium of Light March 4, 2016 The England football team are to play games outside of London for the first time in nine years ahead of this summer's Euro 2016, with games in Manchester and Sunderland. Roy Hodgson's side will take on Turkey at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester on Sunday 22 May and Australia at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland five [...]
US sports executive: Leicester City in the Champions League would hold back likes of Manchester United, European Super League still on the agenda March 4, 2016 Europe's elite clubs could make much more money by closing off the Champions League to smaller teams such as Leicester City, an American sports executive who met with the "big five" Premier League clubs on Tuesday has claimed. Earlier this week executives from Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea, Manchester City and Liverpool held talks with Relevent [...]
This wildly reimagined A Midsummer Night’s Dream is riotously fun March 3, 2016 Hammersmith Lyric | ★★★★☆ There are few things more tragic than Shakespeare’s comedies. The plots are silly, the pacing is woeful, and what jokes there are are usually buried in such antiquated language and stale cultural references that you need a degree in early modern literature to have a chance of properly appreciating them. But Filter [...]
Hail, Caesar! is a witty love letter to Hollywood’s Golden era March 3, 2016 Dir. Joel and Ethan Coen | ★★★★☆ "Squint! Squint into the grandeur!” a film director yells as George Clooney, in a swinging leather skirt and scabbard, peers earnestly into the camera. He looks ridiculous, but then who wouldn’t? This image is the Coen brothers’ latest star-studded comedy in a nutshell, and thanks to their particular [...]