Manchester United 2, Chelsea 1: Antonio Conte slams players for allowing United comeback and putting club’s Champions League hopes at risk February 25, 2018 Chelsea boss Antonio Conte slated his players for surrendering a lead at top-four rivals Manchester United and warned his side that their hopes of qualifying for next season’s Champions League is at risk. Substitute Jesse Lingard was the United match-winner with a quarter of an hour remaining after striker Romelu Lukaku registered a quick-fire leveller [...]
BT share price rises as regulators raise wholesale price caps February 23, 2018 BT investors were buoyed this morning by a regulatory announcement on the price it can charge its rivals to use its network. With shares rising almost four per cent, BT was one of the FTSE 100’s biggest gainers. Ofcom said it would not regulate the prices charged by infrastructure arm Openreach on its fastest broadband [...]
West Brom boss Alan Pardew reinstates Jonny Evans as captain ahead of Premier League relegation six-pointer with Huddersfield February 22, 2018 West Brom manager Alan Pardew has reinstated Jonny Evans as captain despite him being disciplined for breaking a curfew during a club trip to Barcelona this month. Evans was among four players accused of stealing a taxi on a night out in the Catalan city and was stripped of the armband for last weekend’s FA [...]
EFL clubs bring forward summer transfer deadline to mirror Premier League February 22, 2018 English Football League (EFL) clubs have followed their Premier League counterparts and voted to bring forward their summer transfer deadline to early September. The 72 clubs in the second, third and fourth tiers have agreed to close this summer’s transfer window at 5pm on Thursday 9 August – the same time as teams in the [...]
Manchester United’s new YouTube channel highlights platform’s influence on football February 22, 2018 Such was the hype surrounding big tech’s supposed interest in acquiring live Premier League broadcast rights that YouTube’s name was inevitably thrown into the mix alongside Sky and BT as a potential bidder in the current auction. Yet Google’s online video behemoth was never interested. Why would they be? As demonstrated by Manchester United’s migration [...]
Chris Tremlett: White ball-only contracts are the future of English cricket February 21, 2018 Alex Hales and Adil Rashid opting to sign white ball-only contracts with their counties has caused a stir but I say fair play to the pair of them – they certainly won’t be the last players to concentrate solely on limited-overs cricket. I understand the fuss, which is accentuated by Hales and Rashid having played [...]
DEBATE: With rising automation, is the Royal Society of Arts right that it’s time for a universal basic income? February 21, 2018 With rising automation, is the Royal Society of Arts right that it’s time for a universal basic income? Dr Lauren Ware, lecturer in philosophy at the School of European Culture and Languages at the University of Kent, says YES. We suffer from a culture of competitive overwork that is unpleasant, unhealthy, and unsustainable. Faced with [...]
Trevor Steven: Paul Pogba should be Manchester United’s Kevin De Bruyne but has failed to adapt to the Premier League February 20, 2018 When Paul Pogba left Manchester United in 2012 it was in large part down to Sir Alex Ferguson’s hesitation to give him the first-team action that he felt ready for, perhaps due to doubts about whether the 19-year-old could adapt his game to be successful in the Premier League. Pogba went to Juventus and thrived [...]
Chelsea v Barcelona preview: Antonio Conte admits to having sleepless nights over prospect of facing Barca February 19, 2018 Chelsea boss Antonio Conte admits the prospect of facing Barcelona has given him sleepless nights but insists his side are ready to embrace the tag of underdogs and topple their fearsome rivals in the Champions League last 16. While they are unbeaten in their last seven matches against Barcelona, the Blues head into Tuesday’s first [...]
Barcelona star Lionel Messi backed to overcome Chelsea hoodoo in Champions League last 16 tie February 19, 2018 Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde has played down the significance of Lionel Messi’s failure to score in previous matches with Chelsea ahead of Tuesday’s Champions League clash between the teams. Barca’s No10 has scored 97 goals in the competition yet has drawn a blank in eight appearances against the Blues, even missing a penalty in the [...]