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How to mix… The perfect New Orleans Sazerac

August 17, 2021

August is hurricane season in New Orleans, a time when oppressive heat and torrential showers mean it’s foolish to do much more than sit on your balcony with a frosty drink and watch the world pass by. The extremity of London’s weather in recent weeks, from floods to heatwaves, put me in mind of the [...]
England striker Tammy Abraham joins Roma from Chelsea in record breaking transfer for an English player moving overseas

August 17, 2021

Tammy Abraham has left Chelsea for Roma in a €40m (£34.1m) transfer that makes him the most expensive English player ever signed by an overseas club. England centre-forward Abraham has signed a five-year contract with the Italian team, where he will be reunited with former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho. The fee of £34.1m eclipses the [...]
Tennis ace Naomi Osaka moved to tears in first press conference since revealing battle with depression

August 17, 2021

Tennis star Naomi Osaka broke down in her first press conference since pulling out of the French Open and revealing her struggle with depression earlier this year. The world No2 took a break from the video call at the Cincinnati Open on Monday evening after appearing to become upset after a question about her relationship [...]
60 seconds with… Marquee TV founder Simon Walker

August 16, 2021

Marquee TV has been streaming live art and culture for 3 years. We had a chat with founder Simon Walker about the business of streaming the arts and partnering with arts organisations to bring a global audience to their performances. You describe yourself as the ‘business guy’ in the team, developing the business model. Has [...]
Afghanistan’s Paralympic athletes unable to compete in Tokyo

August 16, 2021

Afghanistan’s Paralympic team will be unable to compete in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics as commercial flights out of the country have been called off following the Tablibn takeover. “Due to the serious ongoing situation in the country, all airports are closed and there is no way for them to travel to Tokyo,” a spokesperson for [...]
Barcelona president Joan Laporta reveals debts at crisis club have grown to £1.15bn following Lionel Messi departure

August 16, 2021

Barcelona, once hailed as the model for all football clubs to follow, are now £1.15bn (€1.35bn) in debt, according to their president Joan Laporta. The five-time European champions’ financial crisis was highlighted last week by their inability to afford a new contract for Lionel Messi, their greatest ever player. Laporta said Barcelona’s wage bill exceeded [...]
Watford FC to feature Doge on football shirts

August 16, 2021

Watford’s shirt sleeve sponsor for the upcoming 2021-22 season will be the meme-based cryptocurrency Dogecoin. According to an insider at Watford FC, the deal is worth upwards of £700,000 and will exceed the £1m sponsorship deal which the Premier League club inked with its previous sleeve partners Bitcoin if the bonus conditions are met. Dogecoin [...]
Goals galore: Full houses witness Premier League’s second highest scoring opening weekend ever

August 16, 2021

The return of fans to full stadia coincided with the highest scoring opening weekend in the Premier League for almost 20 years. For the first time since March 2020, England’s top-flight clubs were allowed capacity crowds at matches as the new season got underway. And supporters were treated to a feast of goals, with a [...]
Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester City among Super League rebels to return to European Club Association

August 16, 2021

Nine of the rebel football clubs who agreed to join a breakaway European Super League – including six Premier League sides – have rejoined the European Club Association (ECA). The teams renounced their memberships of the influential group, which represents more than 200 of Europe’s leading clubs, as part of their decision to join the [...]
One of the world’s finest wines is Kent’s Squerryes 2011 Brut

August 16, 2021

Get ready for something seriously tasty to tickle your tastebuds. Over 18,000 wines were blind-tasted at the largest, most renowned wine competition internationally, The Decanter Awards. The Judges then allocated the select few winners Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum medals, but this is not the pinnacle. Get ready to feel patriotic. Of those 18,000 wines, [...]