Sport News 24/7 By Ronan George This week promises to be a big one for Rooneys and football. England captain, Wayne, will win his 100th cap as the national team take on Slovenia in a European Championship qualifier at Wembley on Saturday. While at the House of Commons, a little ...
By Nathan Lee, Politics Correspondent What happened to the days when the Premier League was just Manchester United and Chelsea, Mourinho versus Ferguson, red versus blue? The title would slide one way and then the other, the status quo occasionally disrupted by a surprising league or FA cup run but by ...
Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter @TLE_Sport @rgdewinter The football fan is a fickle beast. Their opinions on players fluctuate from one extreme to another, often during the same game. It is perfectly acceptable to call for a player’s substitution and immediate expulsion from the first-team picture and praise ...
Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter – Sports Editor @davidjdewinter @TLE_Sport When Mauricio Pochettino was poached from Southampton to become the new manager of Tottenham Hotspur, there were coos of appreciation from all sides. After guiding a very talented and aesthetically pleasing Saints side to 8th in the Premier ...
Sport News 24/7 By Jim Mackney @JimMackney @TLE_Sport It was the 18th of October 2014. There was a bubbling sense of excitement, the smell of hotdogs and flat Carlsberg filled the air along with the sound of a few thousand shuffling feet; the customary swell of noise as the players ...
Take an Italian Anglophile with a penchant for American food and set him up in a Premier League football ground and you get Frankie's Sports Bar & Diner, an American style sports bar collaboration between Marco Pierre White and Frankie Dettori. After various collaborations with Mr Pierre White – dubbed ...
Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter – Sports Editor @davidjdewinter @TLE_Sport When Liverpool signed Mario Balotelli a few days before the close of the transfer window, plenty of eyebrows were raised. Not another troublemaker? How will he fit into the club’s playing style? Can he fill the sizeable shoes ...
Sport News 24/7 By Adam Clark @AdamClarkers @TLE_Sport For a brief moment at the start of this season Aston Villa soared improbably and gloriously into third place. But the Premier League is a harsh mistress, especially when you play Ciaran Clark at centre-back. 4 losses, 11 goals conceded and 0 ...
By Jack Peat, Editor of The London Economic Boom and bust seems like a primitive economic state, but few would argue today that the harsh cyclical nature of the economy has seen its day. If anything, they've become more severe. Soviet economist Nikolai Kondratiev theorised in the early 20th century ...