Adebayor: Pochettino hasn’t got ideas across November 10, 2014 TOTTENHAM striker Emmanuel Adebayor has defended under-fire manager Mauricio Pochettino but admitted that Spurs players are still to grasp how the Argentinian wants them to play. Defeat to Stoke on Sunday at White Hart Lane was the north Londoners’ fourth loss from their last five home Premier League fixtures and left them 12th in the [...]
Football Comment: Footballers may be multi-millionaires, but they are still at risk of financial pitfalls too November 10, 2014 Ex-England keeper David James’ recent bankruptcy shows stars aren’t immune IF YOU find the sums of money swirling around in football unpalatable, then stand by your beds because, in the next 10 years, it will look like chicken feed. The growth in the bottom line of Europe’s elite clubs is now being driven by two [...]
Mental strength key to ending kamikaze run, says Chambers November 10, 2014 ARSENAL defender Calum Chambers has blamed a lapse in mental strength for the team’s alarming failure to translate a lead into three points in back-to-back fixtures. The Gunners led Swansea on Sunday with 15 minutes remaining before two goals in the space of three minutes turned the Premier League contest on its head. That came [...]
Manchester United’s Rooney, van Persie and Di Maria get anime makeover in epic advert for sponsor Nissin November 10, 2014 Manchester United’s new sponsor Nissin has turned the club’s players into Japanese-style anime characters as part of a new global marketing campaign. The Japanese noodle brand became a global sponsor of the club earlier this year in a deal thought to be worth up to £10m a year, and is also planning to create Man [...]
Premier League: Wenger dismay as Arsenal blow another victory November 9, 2014 SWANSEA CITY 2 ARSENAL 1 EXASPERATED Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger blasted his team for throwing away a lead for the second time in a week after they allowed Swansea to snatch a win from the jaws of defeat yesterday. The Gunners looked on course to return to the Premier League’s top four when forward Alexis [...]
Football Comment: All is not well on both sides of north London November 9, 2014 ONLY three points separate Arsenal and Tottenham in this topsy-turvy Premier League table but while the Gunners are sixth, Spurs languish in 12th – and that puts them in a very different bracket psychologically. Arsene Wenger’s men had another off-day in losing at Swansea yesterday and, with Chelsea already 12 points away at the top [...]
Premier League: Pochettino feels heat after Spurs lose third in four November 9, 2014 AT WHITE HART LANE TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 1 STOKE CITY 2 TOTTENHAM boss Maurico Pochettino admits results need to improve fast otherwise question marks will be raised over his White Hart Lane tenure after 10-man Spurs slipped to defeat against Stoke yesterday. Bojan Krkic and Jonathan Walters ensured the Potters held a commanding half-time lead before [...]
Magpies extend winning streak November 9, 2014 NEWCASTLE won 2-0 at West Brom yesterday to record their fourth straight Premier League win and climb to eighth in the table. Striker Ayoze Perez’s backheeled finish and defender Fabricio Coloccini’s full-blooded header, both from Daryl Janmaat deliveries, earned the Magpies’ fifth consecutive victory in all competitions. Everton defender Leighton Baines converted a penalty as [...]
Arsenal record second-worst start to Premier League season in Arsene Wenger era following Swansea defeat November 9, 2014 After 11 games of the Premier League season, Arsenal are closer to the relegation zone than they are to the top of the table. A spluttering start to the season is gearing dangerously close to break down for Arsenal, after defeat at Swansea signalled their second-worst points haul at this stage in the season [...]
Fine watch show SalonQP arrives at the Saatchi Gallery November 6, 2014 If you’re a SalonQP regular, you’ll know what the fuss is about. Slowly but surely expanding in size and repute since 2009’s frayed-around-the-edges debut at One Marylebone, the Saatchi Gallery on King’s Road is now precisely the sort of slick, spacious, yet exclusive venue that London’s watch fans (both curious and diehard) and SalonQP’s [...]