Five things we learned from the Premier League weekend: Man City can do no wrong, Man Utd worries mount, don’t write off Chelsea, Spurs calm in storm and West Ham need support August 19, 2018 No Kevin De Bruyne? No problem. Come to that, Manchester City also rested Raheem Sterling and Kyle Walker and used Leroy Sane sparingly against Huddersfield on Sunday. Ominously, the record-breaking Premier League champions still won 6-1. City can currently do no wrong; every tactical tweak made by Pep Guardiola pays off in spades. Here, it was [...]
Inquests and inquiries: The role of the family and equality of arms December 14, 2018 Inquests and public inquiries play a vital role in uncovering the truth when things go wrong. This is obvious when we look at recent high profile inquests and inquiries: the Hillsborough inquest, the Grenfell Inquiry, the Westminster Bridge inquest and the upcoming inquest into the Manchester terrorist attack. The public rightly expect proper scrutiny of [...]
City Moves for 30 November – who’s switching jobs at DWF, Legal & General and Relendex? November 30, 2018 DWF DWF has appointed regulatory specialist Richard Burger as a partner in its regulatory, compliance and investigations team in London. Richard joins from corporate and insurance firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC). Richard has 20 years’ experience in UK and international regulatory enforcement, criminal and internal corporate investigations. A former regulatory enforcement lawyer with the FSA [...]
Brendan’s second coming: Rodgers to resurrect Premier League career with Leicester February 28, 2019 “My biggest mentor is myself,” was just one of the memorable utterances to emerge from Brendan Rodgers during his first stint in the Premier League, but more than three years after his sacking by Liverpool he has returned to England in the latest step in his bid to rebuild credibility. The Northern Irish manager has [...]
Patisserie Valerie reveals which London cafes are set to close as timeline charts cafe chain’s collapse February 4, 2019 Administrators have closed 71 stores owned by Patisserie Holdings after the firm collapsed in late January, resulting in 920 redundancies. A total of nine Patisserie Valerie branches have been shut down in London, with a further three Debenhams concessions closed. Read more: Patisserie Valerie shareholders consider legal action after company collapses The firm’s two Glasgow stores [...]
Why Liverpool’s Champions League qualification cost Chelsea and Manchester United over €10m in revenue August 24, 2017 Liverpool and Celtic both cruised into the Champions League group stage this week, costing Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City and Tottenham an average of €13m in the process. For Liverpool, the financial uplift from securing their place amongst Europe’s elite will be significant in prize money alone. The Reds and the Hoops both earned €2m [...]
Chelsea 2-0 Tottenham: Spurs’s Stamford Bridge curse continues as Blues begin to click into gear after Kepa saga February 27, 2019 As Tottenham slipped to a disappointing defeat tonight they knew their Stamford Bridge curse had not been broken. Spurs have now won just once in the last 33 attempts away to their London rivals while the result also gave them the unwanted fact of four consecutive defeats away from home for the first time in 10 years. [...]
The power of free markets can liberate Britain’s high streets January 22, 2019 Change is sweeping across retail, affecting the way we all shop, spend, and interact in our town centres. Most analysts agree that there is currently too much retail space, often in the wrong locations, and that, while our high streets of the future will remain commercial centres, they will look radically different to what we [...]
Five ways to clean up your buy-to-let portfolio in 2019 January 9, 2019 While January is a great time to be making financial resolutions, with many over-spending at Christmas, it’s sometimes best to concentrate on making the most of what you already have. For 2.5m people owning £1.4 trillion of buy-to-let, investment property is the best place to start. It comprises an enormous part of personal wealth, it [...]
Chilango offers big investors a free burrito every week as it launches crowdfunder to help fund five new London restaurants October 11, 2018 Chilango is offering investors the chance to get a free meal a week, as it looks to raise £1m from its new ‘Burrito Bond’. The Mexican restaurant chain plan to add five more establishments to its 10 in London by 2020. Read more: Protein powerhouse Glanbia shakes things up to buy Slimfast for $350m It [...]