End of the road for battered and bruised Welsh October 16, 2015 Graham Reid with top tips for two titanic RWC quarter-finals THE RUGBY World Cup enters the quarter-final stage this weekend with four mouth-watering matches lying in wait. New Zealand look set for a strong win against France and, with a similar outcome expected for Australia against Scotland, it’s the other two fixtures that are attracting [...]
Youngs backs fearless England to make electric start to World Cup September 16, 2015 England scrum-half Ben Youngs has backed his side to unleash a crescendo of pent-up anticipation when their Rugby World Cup campaign gets underway against Fiji at Twickenham on Friday. Youngs is set to make his 50th international appearance as England bid for a successful start to the tournament against a team who are ranked [...]
Ex-New Zealand No10 Dan Carter inspires Racing 92 to beat Leicester and set up Saracens final April 25, 2016 Former All Blacks fly-half Dan Carter kicked Racing 92 into a European Champions Cup final against Saracens with 11 points in yesterday’s 19-16 defeat of Leicester. France scrum-half Maxime Machenaud’s early try put Racing in front at Nottingham’s City Ground and Carter’s four successful kicks kept Leicester at bay until a 79th-minute try from Telusa [...]
Blow for Australia as David Pocock ruled out of Wallabies’ recovery mission against rampant England June 12, 2016 Australia's hopes of wrestling the initiative from England in their three-Test series suffered a sizeable blow after forward David Pocock was ruled out of the remaining matches with a fractured eye socket. No8 Pocock suffered the injury during England’s 39-28 victory in the first Test in Brisbane on Saturday and is expected to be sidelined [...]
Fans deserve greater transparency from the Aviva Premiership’s salary cap settlements October 27, 2015 With the Rugby World Cup drawing to a conclusion, English rugby fans' attention is switching to domestic matters – where they have found even more sources of frustration and confusion. Last Thursday evening, following a board meeting, Premiership Rugby released a statement setting out salary cap arrangements for the 2016/17 and 2017/18 seasons, a [...]
City A.M.’s Rio 50: These are the 50 most marketable athletes at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games August 3, 2016 Do you thrill to the Mobot? Or tingle when Jess Ennis-Hill ducks for the line? Perhaps it’s Usain Bolt’s signature To Di World celebration, an Andy Murray fist pump, or gymnastics doyenne Simone Biles cheekily winking during a floor routine that brings out the goose-pimples. Everyone has their favourites: those sportsmen and women who we [...]
ITV posts strong third quarter results in 2015 despite X Factor viewing figures and the end of Downton Abbey November 10, 2015 ITV's top shows might be haemorrhaging viewers (The X Factor) or ending (Downton Abbey) but that hasn't stopped it posting strong results for the three quarters of the year so far, powered by double-digit growth in its production arm ITV Studios. The figures Revenues at the broadcaster rose 13 per cent to £2.04bn in the nine months to [...]
Tom Daley and Dom Goodfellow overjoyed to seal platform bronze at Olympics Games in Rio August 9, 2016 Jubilant divers Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow could barely contain their joy after pipping Germany to a bronze medal in the men’s synchronised 10m platform at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre. The pair were the last to dive but kept their composure to overhaul Germany’s former world champions Patrick Hausding and Sascha Klein with a [...]
England lock Kruis in danger of missing tour of Australia after biting charge April 4, 2016 Second row George Kruis could miss England’s tour of Australia in June after being cited for an alleged bite during Saracens’ Premiership victory at Bath on Friday evening. Kruis stands accused of biting Bath’s David Wilson in a second-half incident which has also seen the 30-year-old prop charged with making contact with the eye area [...]
Wasps make Kurtley Beale the highest paid player in Premiership Rugby May 13, 2016 Australia's Kurtley Beale will become the highest paid rugby player in England after putting pen to paper on a two-year contract with Wasps. Wallabies star Beale will be paid £750,000 per season, making him the best-paid player in the Aviva Premiership and the third best player in the world behind international teammate Matt Giteau and former All [...]