2020 OLYMPIC GAMES Cancelled The Olympic torch relay in Greece was cancelled on Friday 13 March – just a day after the flame was lit in Olympia. Large crowds mobbed Hollywood actor Gerard Butler as he lit the cauldron in the Greek city of Sparta on Friday despite repeated warnings for spectators not to attend because of … Read more
Fans. Where would football be without them? We are about to find out. Close the doors. It is the only available option. Postponement, play-offs, ending the season now, none of it works, none of it would be fair. Not every team is like Liverpool, in a position to claim moral victory as champions less than … Read more
This went exactly as expected, but better than expected, too. Manchester City won, as was widely predicted, but Villa were not embarrassed or swept aside, which was not. The last team to play City in a cup final, Watford, went down by six; the last time Villa reached a domestic cup final, against Arsenal in … Read more
Pep Guardiola’s emails ‘hacked by rogue IT worker who tried to sell them for £100,000’… and said they included discussions ‘relating to Matthijs De Ligt and Sokratis Papastathopoulos’ by the Manchester City manager Man City boss Pep Guardiola has reportedly been targeted by an IT hacker A man was arrested by Greater Manchester Police earlier … Read more