Sport News 24/7 By Abeer Sharma @abizzle1991 @TLE_Sport Listen carefully in L4 and you might find that the lark has starting to sing its sweet silver song once again. He may not quite be the messiah (witness Sunday’s dreadful defeat at Newcastle), but the appointment of Jurgen Klopp has given ...
Sport News 24/7 Ok, I’ll admit it; I didn’t give Tyson Fury much of a chance of beating Wladimir Klitschko. Not many others did to be honest against a man who has 65 professional wins, holds three of the four main titles and who, alongside his older brother, has dominated ...
Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport @davidjdewinter When I was growing up in the 1990s and early 2000s, watching British tennis players was a lesson in how to be a gallant loser. Don’t get me wrong, I used to love Tiger Tim Henman (Greg Rusedski ...
Sport News 24/7 By Billy Stephens @BillyLaughs @TLE_Sport It’s not a good time to be an Aston Villa fan; then again, it hasn’t been for a while. The Villains are languishing at the bottom of the league with just five points after the 13th round of matches, and are winless ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The first thing I said was, "it's a bit like secret cinema meets Winter Wonderland," but I was shot down immediately by my companions. It is the exact anthesis of the Hyde Park tourist trap, I was told. I apologised for my stupidity and took ...
Sport News 24/7 By Nick Edmonds @nickedmonds575 @TLE_Sport For a Villa fan, 1983 was a cruel year to be born. Too late for the club's greatest party, when the heavily-fancied Bayern Munich side featuring Paul Breitner, Karl Heinz Rummenigge and co, were put to the sword on that balmy night ...
Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport @davidjdewinter The England Rugby team and the RFU would rather forget the last two months ever happened. Firstly, the national side was eliminated from the Rugby World Cup at the group stages, the only host nation to do so ...
Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport @davidjdewinter England’s tour to the UAE has been a somewhat chastening experience. The test team, maybe a tad unluckily, lost 2-0 to Pakistan in a series characterised by attritional cricket, worrying collapses and crucial dropped catches. However, redemption has ...
By Rose Taylor Krishna Bahadur does not complain about his tin shack, quite the contrary. He says, compared to the tarpaulin cover under which he and his two sons spent two months it is like ‘a palace’. His sons Kamal, 12 and Ashok, 18, have said little to anyone since ...