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How Premier League clubs may have avoided paying £250m in tax

March 30, 2023

Premier League clubs may have avoided paying up to £250m in tax, experts have warned. The Tax Policy Associates say that the 20 top flight clubs could have cost a quarter of a billion in lost tax between 2019 and 2021, and £470m since 2015. The group says in their report that: “Football clubs at [...]
Bake Off’s Prue Leith: Why I’m simulating sex on London stage

March 30, 2023

Bake Off’s Prue Leith tells Adam Bloodworth about her latest work, a riotously funny one-woman show Just last month, Prue Leith was on This Morning talking about libido enhancers for the overeighties. Her husband, sat in the audience, was asked whether he’d like Leith to take some herself. “Don’t give her anymore!” he said, as [...]
Manchester City owner Mansour bin Zayed named UAE vice president

March 30, 2023

The owner of Manchester City, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has been named vice president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The move comes amid a number of major political appointments by Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the President of the nation. Sheikh Mohamed also named Kahled bin Mohamed as Crown Prince of Abu [...]
Rugby World Cup Barometer: Who’s in form for France 2023

March 30, 2023 | Sponsored

In the lead up to the 2023 Rugby World Cup, City PM have put together a barometer in partnership with City Index to look at which players are hot and not in the race to be part of the quadrennial event in France later this year. Player of the week London Irish back-row Tom Pearson [...]
Ed Warner: Is China about to bring Russia and its athletes in from the sporting cold?

March 30, 2023

The war in Ukraine doesn’t look like ending any time soon. Just as Russia is recalibrating its geopolitical and industrial relations, so the prospect of a conflict stretching years into the future will necessitate a realignment of its place in the sporting world. Asia’s warmth towards the Kremlin points a way back into the international [...]
LIV Golf Orlando: Why the DJ and Cam Show is due a repeat as Masters looms

March 29, 2023

If LIV Golf’s debut season raised any concerns that the rebel circuit would quickly become dominated by its biggest names, such as Dustin Johnson and Cameron Smith, then they have knocked into the thick rough for now. Johnson, whose signing is thought to have cost Saudi-bankrolled LIV Golf more than $100m, topped the individual standings [...]
Spurs: Fifa ban club’s managing director of football Fabio Paratici

March 29, 2023

Tottenham Hotspur’s search for a new manager has been plunged into uncertainty after the club’s managing director of football, Fabio Paratici, was handed a worldwide ban. Fifa confirmed on Wednesday that it had agreed to a request from Italian football chiefs to extend globally a 30-month domestic ban issued to Paratici in January. Paratici was [...]
London Irish confirm players WILL be paid amid uncertainty

March 29, 2023

Premiership club London Irish have confirmed that all staff will be paid amid reports of players waiting growing anxious over payday. This comes as a buy-out for the club has reportedly been delayed, according to the Daily Mail. Premiership Rugby are doing “everything possible” to help a takeover of the club with current owner Mick [...]
Scream is back with more self-referential slashing

March 29, 2023

After the success of Creed III, it’s time to return to another franchise to another franchise that successfully rebooted. The fifth Scream movie, confusingly titled Scream, was released last year and became a surprise hit with its mix of old faces and new stars. It wasn’t quite up to the standard of the original but [...]
The Ninth in Fitzrovia reopens and it’s as good as it ever was

March 29, 2023

When my boss’s boss asked me to recommend a place to eat for a big anniversary – “somewhere like River Cafe or The Square” – he looked sceptical when I suggested a neighbourhood restaurant in Fitzrovia. Thankfully he loved it, so I’m still here to bang on about what a great restaurant The Ninth is. [...]