Data breach: West Ham United accidentally exposes hundreds of fans’ email addresses August 24, 2018 West Ham United suffered a data breach yesterday when it accidentally shared hundreds of season ticket-holders’ data with one another. UK data protection watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is looking into the breach at the club, whose staff’s email blunder resulted in up to 200 supporters seeing each other’s details. Read more: 20,000 Superdrug [...]
Why are Premier League clubs being paid in Bitcoin for their commercial deals with trading platform eToro? August 23, 2018 If 2018 has been the year of football dipping its toe into the world of cryptocurrency, then this week saw some teams go a little deeper into uncharted waters. On Tuesday, seven Premier League clubs including Tottenham and Crystal Palace announced that they had signed commercial partnerships with investment platform eToro. What made these deals [...]
My sporting life: Synergy managing director Lisa Parfitt on women’s sport and her passion for running August 23, 2018 Synergy's managing director Lisa Parfitt on championing women in sport, running and her hockey umpire father. What is your sporting passion? My passion for any sport has never really faltered but my true energy and personal passion now is women’s sport. I have two young daughters and I want them to grow into strong, independent women [...]
Dinosaur World Live is a chilling prophecy of climate disaster, or it might just be a fun kids’ show about some cool dino-puppets August 23, 2018 Ostensibly a 50-minute long children’s show in which a series of realistically animated and life-size dinosaur puppets stomp around on stage, Dinosaur World Live at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre is, beneath the veneer of Jurassic spectacle, an unflinching treatise on the irreversible effects of climate change, and the energy industry’s plundering of the remaining [...]
The Spy Who Dumped Me review: Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon star in this surprisingly violent spy-spoof comedy August 23, 2018 A spy-spoof action-comedy starring Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon, The Spy Who Dumped Me is way more violent and funny than the lazy, mid-90s punning title would suggest. But the pair work remarkably well together on screen, making for an unexpectedly sparky and entertaining duo in a movie that swings madly from some actually-very-good gunfights [...]
James Vince: Hampshire captain’s England Test selection shows selector Ed Smith sticking to his word August 23, 2018 James Vince’s recall to the England squad to face India in the fourth Test match at the Ageas Bowl next week was met with a near-uniform sigh. Reading the comments below the announcement on social media, the general opinion was that the Hampshire batsman had his chance and blew it. The 27-year-old has played 13 [...]
Arsenal v West Ham: Old foes reunited as Unai Emery and Manuel Pellegrini meet again with new clubs August 23, 2018 Familiarity will be in the air at Emirates Stadium on Saturday when West Ham visit Arsenal. Most eyes will be trained on Jack Wilshere, who is set to face the club at which he spent his formative footballing years for the first time since his summer switch from north to east London, while Spanish forward [...]
Motty lends his voice to Football Index’s advertising push August 23, 2018 Match of the Day’s legendary commentator John Motson is lending his voice to a new trading platform dedicated to football. Motson, who has commentated on some of the Premier League and FA Cup’s biggest matches since the late 1960s, will be the face and voice of fresh fintech venture Football Index’s TV and radio adverts. [...]
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy review: The return of the series’ winning formula disguises a lack of new ambition August 23, 2018 You would think that by this point, about half a dozen games into the Uncharted series, we’d have explored every tomb that ever was. That we’d have plundered every haunted crypt filled with swinging blades and little piles of dusty skulls, pillaged the very last mausoleum’s worth of goblets and swiped the world’s only [...]
Chris Tremlett: England have lost sight of the art of opening and need to go back to basics August 22, 2018 As much as it’s ultimately good for the game to avoid two dead rubbers, England’s thrashing by India, which was confirmed this morning, was very disappointing. Trent Bridge is a ground where England tend to play well and with James Anderson and Stuart Broad on a high after the Lord’s win they would have been [...]