West Ham United 3, NK Domzale 0 (Agg: 4-2): Happy Hammers’ housewarming, while Slaven Bilic targets a minimum of five new signings before start of Premier League season August 4, 2016 West Ham boss Slaven Bilic revelled in the atmosphere generated within the London Stadium as the Hammers marked their first match at their new home with a commanding Europa League victory over Slovenian minnows NK Domzale. Two first-half strikes from Cheikhou Kouyate and a late third from new signing Sofiane Feghouli ensured West Ham avoided [...]
Swansea close in on securing deal for Sevilla striker Fernando Llorente as Tottenham offload winger August 4, 2016 Swansea City have moved a step closer to bolstering their forward line by agreeing a deal last night to sign Spain international Fernando Llorente from reigning Europa League champions Sevilla. No transfer fee has been announced although the 31-year-old former Juventus and Athletic Bilbao striker is expected to sign a two-year contract at the Liberty [...]
England seamer James Anderson apologises for umpire outburst during frustrating day as Azhar Ali-inspired Pakistan turn the screw at Edgbaston August 4, 2016 England seamer James Anderson was forced to apologise after his emotions boiled over during a frustrating second day of the third Investec Test which saw Pakistan turn the screw at Edgbaston. Anderson clashed with umpire Bruce Oxenford after he was warned about running on the pitch post-delivery. England’s leading Test wicket-taker received two official warnings, [...]
Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere a doubt for Premier League season opener against Liverpool while Gunners offload goalkeeper on loan August 4, 2016 Injury-plagued Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere’s hopes of playing in his side’s opening match of the Premier League season against Liverpool look to be in doubt after he was ruled out of their pre-season tour of Scandinavia. A knee injury has forced Wilshere out of Arsenal’s final two warm-up matches before the new campaign. The Gunners face [...]
Rotterdam at Trafalgar Studios review: A touching and laugh-out-loud comedy about being transgender August 4, 2016 “Rotterdam is anywhere/anywhere alone” sang The Beautiful South back in the days of Britpop. Anywhere is right: the Dutch port city acts not only as a setting for this West End transfer, but also as a metaphor for transition, a halfway house where no one feels they truly belong. The story follows three British expats [...]
Rio 2016 Olympics: Wada and IOC come under fire from man who exposed Russia’s doping operation and Lance Armstrong August 4, 2016 The former chief investigator of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has launched a scathing attack on the leadership of the under-fire body on the eve of the Rio 2016 Olympics. Jack Robertson, who helped bring down Lance Armstrong and worked for the organisation until January, says he leaked details of Russian state-sponsored doping in order [...]
London 2012 gold medallist Andy Murray handed tricky opener as he begins Olympic Games title defence in Rio August 4, 2016 Britain's Andy Murray will begin his Olympic title defence against Serbia’s world No35 Viktor Troicki when the opening round of the tennis singles at the Rio Games get underway this weekend. London 2012 gold medallist Murray, who has been chosen as Team GB’s flagbearer for tonight’s opening ceremony, holds a 7-0 career record against Troicki, [...]
Exposure review: A cringe-inducing musical so awful it ascends like some horrible bird into a delirious realm of brilliant, unintentional comedy August 4, 2016 Like Chekhov’s prophetic gun above the mantle, any character who proudly shows off an ultrasound of their unborn son guarantees their own near-immediate demise. In this wonderfully terrible musical, a photographer barely has the foetal-snap out of his pocket before he’s bitten to death by snakes. His already grieving, prenatal son then explodes from rear [...]
Olympics betting: Chris Froome, Lizzie Armitstead and Adam Peaty to begin gold rush for Team GB August 4, 2016 While 2012 will go down as Team GB’s most golden Olympics, for a while it seemed as though it might be a damp squib. There were four and a half days of competition until a British athlete claimed the most coveted medal, when rowers Helen Glover and Heather Stanning started the gold rush. We shouldn’t [...]
Olympics betting: Rio carnival on the cards with record medals for Team GB August 4, 2016 Shares in coffee companies will likely nudge upwards over the next three weeks as the late night drama from the Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro keeps the country awake. Pollsters Opinium teamed up with Sporting Index this week and found that the UK will lose up to 302m hours of sleep watching Team GB cycle, [...]