Valencia signing threat to Carroll July 17, 2014 WEST Ham’s record signing Andy Carroll could find his place under threat after the club completed a £12m deal for Ecuador striker Enner Valencia. Hammers boss Sam Allardyce fought off stiff competition to sign Valencia from Pachuca following an impressive World Cup, where he scored all three of his side’s goals. Valencia, 25, has played as [...]
Stokes hopeful England batters can pile on runs July 17, 2014 ENGLAND all-rounder Ben Stokes is targeting a fast start to day two of the second Test against India at Lord’s. A century from Ajinkya Rahane was the highlight for the tourists as they ended the opening day on 290-9 after fighting back from 145-7 as England failed to fully capitalise on a pitch ripe for [...]
Cyclist Tiernan-Locke gets two-year ban July 17, 2014 TEAM Sky chiefs have pledged to review their recruitment policy after sacking British cyclist Jonathan Tiernan-Locke for incurring a two-year doping ban. Tiernan-Locke was suspended and had his 2012 Tour of Britain title stripped yesterday by cycling’s world governing body the UCI following a 10-month investigation. The UCI alerted the Plymouth rider to discrepancies in [...]
Battersea Power Station hosts London’s latest pop-up cinema July 17, 2014 The sun has definitely got his hat on, so it’s perfect weather for heading south of the river to watch a film outdoors in the shade of London’s most iconic derelict building. Boutique cinema franchise Everyman has set up a nine metre screen in front of an army of pastel beanbags for the city’s [...]
Review: Gilbert and George White Cube July 17, 2014 Famously, Gilbert and George have lived in the same house for 45 years. That house is on Fournier Street, the link between Old Spitalfields Market and Brick Lane, and a great vantage point from which to witness the changing face of London. Over the past two decades the area has turned from grungy, deprived backwater [...]
Review: The Events July 17, 2014 The Events tells the story of a mass killing in a rural British town. There are shades of Dunblane and the high-school shootings committed by American boys on the edge of sanity and society, but the biggest influence was Anders Beiring Breivik’s massacre of 69 young political party members on the island of Utoya in [...]
Review: Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon July 17, 2014 Some documentaries are motivated by anger, some by curiosity and some by a burning truth that needs to be told. Supermensch: the Legend of Shep Gordon (Michael Myers’ directorial debut) was motivated by love. “Shep Gordon is hands down the nicest person I’ve ever met,” says Myers to the camera, his eyes glistening. Looking at [...]
Review: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes July 17, 2014 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes sees the latest franchise edge closer to the dystopian world envisioned in the 1968 original. Humanity is all but extinct after a pandemic of simian flu, which had the double-whammy effect of killing all but one in 500 people and making apes super-intelligent. Sometimes you just can’t catch [...]
Golf Comment: McDowell has skills to thrive at Hoylake and don’t discount Tiger July 16, 2014 A FEW weeks ago I was asked who my tip was for the Open. At the time I thought Graeme McDowell, and the only reason to doubt that prediction now is that he won in France two weeks ago, so you wonder whether he could have peaked too early. I really fancy a player with [...]
I am hungrier than ever for a Major, says Stenson July 16, 2014 WORLD No2 Henrik Stenson insists that extraordinary success last year on both sides of the Atlantic has only intensified his hunger for a first Major title when the Open begins at Hoylake today. The 38-year-old became the first man to win the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup and the European Tour’s Race to Dubai in the [...]