Horse Racing Betting: It’ll be alright on the Knight for red hot Newland at Ayr April 14, 2016 Just one week on from Aintree and we’re already looking at another big staying race, this time Ayr’s Scottish Grand National (4.10pm). This has been a tricky puzzle for punters to solve in recent years – you have to go back to 2000 for the last winning favourite. In the past decade there have only [...]
How much are West Ham paying for the Olympic Stadium? Rent, naming rights, repayment clauses and extra fees explained April 14, 2016 Three years after West Ham clinched a deal to become anchor tenants of the £700m Olympic Stadium the details of their agreement with the London Legacy Development Commission (LLDC) have finally been published. The 207-page contract was revealed in full for the first time yesterday after an information tribunal this week ruled against the LLDC, [...]
Gutierrez wins discrimination case against Newcastle after being dropped for developing cancer April 14, 2016 Former Newcastle United midfielder Jonas Gutierrez won his disability discrimination claim against his old club after an employment tribunal found that the Magpies had dropped the Argentine due to him developing cancer. Gutierrez was suing Newcastle, owned by billionaire Mike Ashley, after alleging that he was frozen out of the first-term picture having been diagnosed with testicular [...]
Football Betting: Foxes to continue trot to title over tired Hammers April 14, 2016 When relegation candidates Leicester beat West Ham 2-1 at the Boleyn Ground in August, it seemed like a terrible result for the Hammers. Eight months later, and with the Foxes on the brink of winning the Premier League, that reversal doesn’t look quite so bad. The two sides meet again at the King Power on [...]
Football Betting: Returning De Bruyne to give former side Chelsea the blues April 14, 2016 Last year’s top two meet in rather different circumstances on Saturday when Chelsea host Manchester City. Much has changed at Stamford Bridge since the Blues were crowned Premier League champions 11 months ago. Now sitting 10th, title-winning manager Jose Mourinho is long gone, as is the form of PFA Player of the Year Eden Hazard, and Chelsea’s [...]
She Said review: Dancer Tamara Rojo presents three powerful and engrossing ballets rolled into one stunning performance April 14, 2016 Sadler's Wells | ★★★★★ Tamara Rojo, lead principal dancer and artistic director of the English National Ballet, says in over 20 years of dancing she’s never been in a ballet made by a woman. Here, she sets about redressing the balance, presenting three roughly hour-long, self-contained ballets, all choreographed by women. Thankfully, all three are [...]
Will Leicester City win the Premier League? These famous chokes from Arsenal, Manchester United and Liverpool will give Foxes fans nightmares April 14, 2016 Leicester City need just three wins from their remaining five games in order to win a historic Premier League title. Considering Claudio Ranieri's men have lost just three games so far this season, it seems a sure thing that the trophy will be in new hands come 15 May. But Foxes fans beware: league leaders have blown [...]
Rosberg will have “easy” weekend, insists Hamilton after being handed five-place grid penalty at Chinese Grand Prix April 14, 2016 Britain's Lewis Hamilton has piled the pressure on Mercedes team-mate and championship rival Nico Rosberg after being slapped with a five-place grid penalty at Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix. Hamilton, who trails Rosberg by 17 points in the drivers’ championship, was handed the sanction after changing his gearbox following damage sustained in Bahrain earlier this month. [...]
The Jungle Book review: An all-star revival of a family classic with a monkey so unfathomably large it will blow your mind April 14, 2016 Dir. Jon Favreau | ★★★★☆ Think about the biggest monkey you’ve ever seen. Now double it. Now make it seven feet taller. Now triple it. Hold on, slow down, are you mad? That monkey’s much too big. But dial it down just a notch or two and you’ll be picturing an ape on par with [...]
Boy at the Almeida review: a flawed portrait of listlessness and poverty April 14, 2016 Almeida | ★★★☆☆ Boy takes place on a winding conveyor belt, with actors and props spinning before the audience like dishes at an especially dour branch of Yo Sushi. What starts out as a sexual health clinic becomes a bus stop then a housing estate then a park then a street outside a nightclub. Often [...]