Brought to you in association with the UK Concrete Show (“The whole of the concrete industry under one roof!“) . By Martin Kelner 23 May 2016 You’ll forgive me if I lose focus a little this week, but I was playing a drinking game on Cup Final day, treating myself to a small glass of red […]
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‘Mushy peas and rugby league – a product that’s found its audience’
By Martin Kelner Brought to you in association with concrete! 16 May 2016 The BBC breathed a sigh of relief when the White Paper on its future was published the other day, and instead of the threatened sanctions – Strictly Come Dancing to be scheduled at […]
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Leicester lead the way as points on the road hit record levels
By Brian Sears 14 May 2016 Winning away from home is now officially a ‘thing’ in the Premier League. The trend has been inching towards better away performances for a few seasons now but the amount of points won on the road in 2015-16 is guaranteed to be at record levels no matter what happens on […]
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‘Villa and Newcastle, once bright lights, now Dim and Dimmer’
By Martin Kelner 9 May 2016 The final few shirt-sleeved weeks of the season are tough for the teams at the foot of the Premier League, but there was no call for what Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce did when Matic put Chelsea 2-1 ahead just before half time at the Stadium of […]
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Leicester’s mighty Schmeichel king of the ever-present keepers
By Brian Sears 6 May April 2016 Only three goalkeepers of the 45 who have played in the Premier League this season have played for every minute of every match and it seems appropriate that title-winner Kasper Schmeichel of Leicester City has the best record of those three. The 29-year-old Dane has appeared for every second of […]
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‘Even Emily Maitlis on Newsnight went Leicester City gaga’
Screen Break By Martin Kelner To sponsor this column, see foot of page 2 May 2016 I’m a very bad person. All week long, as the anti-Semitism debate rumbled on, relentlessly ploughing the same field, just with a shifting cast of politicos and lobbyists and as a (very lapsed) Jew I […]
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Leicester’s awesome improvement takes them to best of times
By Brian Sears 29 April 2016 Leicester need three points from their remaining three games, at most, to be crowned Premier League champions. That is astonishing enough given they were 5,000-1 outsiders last August. But the manner in which they have put themselves in this position is also jaw-dropping. Even with three games to play they have […]
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SRNA: Bilic ‘will manage one of the great clubs after West Ham’
By Tim Rich 29 April 2016 Slaven Bilic will go on to manage “one of the great clubs in world football” after completing his work at the stepping stone of West Ham, according to his compatriot and friend Darijo Srna. Srna, 33, is the captain of Shakhtar Donetsk and has known Bilic – who is […]
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Bob Latchford and me: a boy’s own tale
. Norwegian sports writer Andreas Selliaas grew up in a village south of Oslo in the 1970s, watching English football from afar and playing make believe in the street. His friends would quarrel over who would be Kevin Keegan and who would be Kenny Dalglish. Selliaas wanted to be neither. He wanted to be Bob […]
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‘Shakhtar’s story is beyond sport: exiled, denuded but dreaming’
By Tim Rich in Kiev 27 April 2016 “I remember my last day in Donetsk,” says Darijo Srna, the captain of Shakhtar, a football club in exile. “It was 16 May 2014. We were told we had to leave quickly. I didn’t take anything from my home. We just took the two cars. My shirts […]
