Screen Break By Martin Kelner To sponsor this column, see foot of page 18 April 2016 Does God support a Premier League football team? I’m not a religious man, I only ask because there has been an uncommon amount of talk this week about divine intervention. I was otherwise engaged […]
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Villa’s relegation at Old Trafford will be a fitting way to go down
By Brian Sears 15 April 2016 Barring victory for Aston Villa this weekend combined with defeat for Norwich, then Villa’s relegation to the Championship will be confirmed as mathematical fact on Saturday. The seven ‘ever present’ clubs of the Premier League era will be six and we dealt with Villa’s demise here. You don’t need to go […]
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‘Willett’s wonder a reminder we’ll miss Alliss, like Evel Knievel’
Screen Break By Martin Kelner To sponsor this column, see foot of page 11 April 2016 This time there was no escape for Murdoch. Regular readers will know the apparently still potent press potentate had a last-minute reprieve at the cricket last week when my tenner and Ben Stokes fell at the […]
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‘With the Windies winning, I made a larger contribution to Murdoch’s connubial bliss than intended’
Screen Break By Martin Kelner To sponsor this column, see foot of page 4 April 2016 You’ll be familiar with William Shakespeare’s famous gag about suffering the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.” Well, if the Bard of Avon were still with us, and wanting to see real suffering, he needed […]
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Saints pose Leicester tester after years in the shade
By Brian Sears 1 April 2016 Leicester’s next assignment en route to a possible extraordinary coronation as champions of England is at home to Southampton on Sunday. It often seems as if flagging up a particular stat jinxes it*, but the Foxes have played 39 different opponents during their Premier League years and they have won more points […]
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‘Manage with an iron bar, and you’d break hearts. Literally’
Screen Break By Martin Kelner 28 March 2016 My sister telephoned me just as the Germany – England match was kicking off. It’s a couple of months since we last spoke, so she wanted a comprehensive catch-up. Good timing. No seriously, good timing. She knows I have trouble getting fully engaged in an England friendly, […]
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From Matt Le Tiss to Mao’s last mistress: an Independent life
By Nick Harris 26 March 2016 Goodbye to The Independent as a newspaper, published on paper for the final time on Saturday. It’s been inevitable for some time. It won’t be the last paper […]
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‘No-one wants Hancock reduced to this. Who next, Damon Albarn?’
Screen Break By Martin Kelner 21 March 2016 One of the toughest jobs in sports broadcasting is the immediate post-match interview, the one where the coach or captain is dragged in front of the sponsors’ boards, and some poor sap with a hand-held mic seeks instant reaction. What do you ask? After England’s grand slam success […]
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Benitez craves Toon win as Sunderland seek seventh heaven
By Brian Sears 18 March 2016 St James’ Park hosts a north-east derby of particular significance this weekend as the outcome will swing the relegation scrap. Newcastle and Sunderland are both in the bottom four, respectively nine and eight points adrift of Swansea heading into the weekend. If Rafa Benitez can guide his charges to victory then they and […]
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‘Jonny’s motivational talks are great. But take a crossword’
Screen Break By Martin Kelner 14 March 2016 It’s a simple game, rugby. As ITV pundit Jonny Wilkinson said before Saturday’s Six Nations match between England and Wales: “It’s about growth, it’s about learning, and in order to do that, you’ve got to be prepared to ask questions of yourself constantly, and put yourself in that position. […]
