Barcelona v Manchester United: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer focuses on recent exploits rather than club’s past glories to motivate players April 15, 2019 The comparison is almost too obvious, but certainly unavoidable. Twenty years on, the same club return to the same stadium and the same man is at the heart of it again. Manchester United revisit Camp Nou tomorrow for their Champions League quarter-final second leg against Barcelona 1-0 down and needing a turnaround akin to the [...]
Sam Torrance: Tiger Woods has silenced his doubters with sport’s greatest comeback April 15, 2019 What Tiger Woods achieved on Sunday at Augusta National is almost indescribable. His fifth Masters win and first Major title for 11 years is certainly the best comeback in the history of golf and quite possibly in any sport. It’s difficult to think of anything comparable. To go through the injuries and personal problems that [...]
Liverpool 2-0 Chelsea: No slip-ups as Mane and Salah blitz leads Reds back to the Premier League’s summit April 14, 2019 No slip-ups this time. The build-up to the match was dominated by what happened five years ago, but Andy Robertson briefly losing his footing was the closest Liverpool came to a repeat of their infamous meeting with Chelsea which shaped the 2014 Premier League title race. Instead of an unfortunate mistake defining their season, it [...]
Tiger Woods back on trail of Jack Nicklaus record after ending 11-year Major drought at Masters April 14, 2019 When Hollywood scriptwriters come to pen the screenplay for the Tiger Woods biopic, the 2019 Masters will surely be the setting for the hero’s redemptive and climactic final scene. Eleven years after winning his last Major, the man who still draws audiences to golf like nobody else achieved what just a few months ago seemed [...]
Crystal Palace 1-3 Manchester City: Sterling clinches vital win as Guardiola’s rotation pays off at Selhurst Park April 14, 2019 Relentless. That’s the word that best describes Manchester City’s pursuit of the Premier League title and their performance against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park. Their Champions League hopes – and therefore those of completing a quadruple – may look slightly precarious after a 1-0 quarter-final first-leg defeat by Tottenham, but judging by this display their [...]
Which Game of Thrones leader are you? April 12, 2019 From Cersei Lannister to Daenerys Targaryen, every major character in Game of Thrones has a different approach when it comes to leadership. Over the last seven seasons, we have come to learn that attaining power is hard, and maintaining that power is even harder. The same holds true in the real world. Corporate competition often lies [...]
Dragged Across Concrete film review: S Craig Zahler directs Mel Gibson in a well-constructed cop drama that leaves a bitter taste April 12, 2019 Director S Craig Zahler doesn’t make things easy for his audience. A strong stomach and buttocks of steel were pre-requisites for getting through his masterful western-horror mashup Bone Tomahawk, and his gut-wrenchingly violent second feature Brawl in Cell Block 99, starring a beefed-up Vince Vaughn as a jailbird blackmailed into carrying out a hit. Running [...]
FCA to investigate Wasps rugby club over financial statements April 12, 2019 Wasps Rugby Club is reportedly under investigation by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) over whether it misled the market about its financial position. Read more: City watchdog strengthens post-Brexit ties with Australian regulator The UK's financial regulator is looking into the Premiership side's financial results from 2017 after it was revealed that the club had [...]
Arsenal reap rewards of Unai Emery’s boldness to beat Napoli and near Europa League last four April 11, 2019 Unai Emery can appear a man struggling to contain a thousand competing impulses but if the Arsenal manager erred towards conservatism when he first arrived in England then he has surrendered to his more attacking urges lately. And it feels good for the Gunners, who reaped the benefits of another bold Emery selection that contained [...]
Liverpool will face the ghosts of their 2014 Premier League title bid slip up against Chelsea April 11, 2019 It was this very fixture in April five years ago that saw one of the cruellest twists in English football history. Steven Gerrard’s rallying cry to team-mates just a few days earlier that “this does not slip” played out with the captain losing his footing and allowing Chelsea a decisive goal that would cost Liverpool [...]