Player ratings: Lionesses ranked as England win Women’s Euro 2022 July 31, 2022 England won their first Euro championship on Sunday evening in front of a record crowd at Wembley, but how did the Lionesses rank against Germany? England starting XI Mary Earps A standout throughout the tournament, scrambled to save England in key moments. Very much a stalwart of the team’s success 9/10 Lucy Bronze Saved her [...]
Community Shield: Manchester City dominate Liverpool but fail to find finishing touch July 31, 2022 Manchester City’s new-look attack posed more threat than Liverpool’s but lacked its clinical touch in the Community Shield, writes Frank Dalleres. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is not a mantra by which either Pep Guardiola or Jurgen Klopp appear to abide. Not content with establishing a yawning gap to the rest of the [...]
23m Brits on £2.4bn spending spree today as the nation tunes in for the Women’s Euro final July 31, 2022 Nearly 23m Brits are expected to spend money today as they will be celebrating England Women’s first appearance in a major football final since 2009. The EURO final today is expected to generate an average spend per person of over £46.08 before, during and after the match with the top purchases being food delivery (62%), [...]
Women’s Euro final 2022: The best places to watch England vs Germany TODAY July 31, 2022 Sing it with us… It’s coming home, it’s coming home, it’s… could it be, finally? TODAY is the day, and we couldn’t be more excited. Kick off is at 5.00pm this afternoon and the game will be screened on BBC One, but of course our great city has plenty of options if you’d rather get [...]
Trevor Steven: Masterful Sarina Wiegman has got the most out of her England women’s squad July 31, 2022 England’s run to the final of Women’s Euro 2022 has generated a great feeling of pride among both male and female football fans. It’s been inspirational. One of the most impressive things about the Lionesses is the way they have embraced the pressure of being hosts. More than any other team, I think they believed [...]
Trevor Steven: Community Shield first look at revamped Manchester City and Liverpool attacks July 30, 2022 With an interval to accommodate a winter World Cup, the coming football season has a different flavour and the same is true of the Community Shield between Manchester City and Liverpool. Wembley usually hosts the curtain-raiser on the final Sunday before the new campaign but, owing to the Women’s Euro 2022 final, this year’s is [...]
Joyride review: Olivia Colman shines again July 29, 2022 Road trips are a regular go-to for independent films – a relatively cheap setting that allows for natural plot development, as the characters are literally going on a journey. But these films rely on strong performances, and luckily, Joyride ticks that box. This Irish production stars Charlie Reid as Mully, a young man mourning his [...]
Fire Of Love review: A captivating story of devotion July 29, 2022 In Fire Of Love, Filmmaker Sara Dosa uses archive footage to celebrate the work of Katia and Maurice Krafft, the French married couple who pioneered the study of volcanoes by documenting them through film and photography. Their partnership would lead them to the most dangerous environments on Earth in search of new information that went [...]
Hit The Road review: A triumph and ode to the refugee crisis July 29, 2022 This film is surely one of the funniest of the year so far, but it also comes with a very sad backdrop. Hit The Road is directed by Panah Panahi, son of the Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who was sentenced to six months in prison recently for criticising his nation’s government. The fact of his [...]
Coleen Rooney wins ‘Wagatha Christie’ libel trial against Rebekah Vardy: ‘An embarrassing own goal’ July 29, 2022 Rebekah Vardy has lost the “Wagatha Christie” libel battle against Coleen Rooney over a viral social media post, after a High Court judge found it was “substantially true”. In the October 2019 post, Mrs Rooney, 36, said she had carried out a months-long “sting operation” and accused Mrs Vardy, 40, of leaking “false stories” about [...]