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Premier League 2021-22 season preview: Fans of London clubs name their best and worst case scenarios and their players to watch

August 13, 2021

For even the most jaded of football supporters, the start of a Premier League season is a special time. The arrival of new managers and players promises to transform fortunes, while last year’s disappointments have faded sufficiently to allow optimism to break out again, at least until the first round of games. So ahead of [...]
How to build the best digital marketing team

August 12, 2021 | City Talk

No matter the size of your organisation, it’s increasingly important to have a strong digital marketing strategy. And finding the right people to create and effectively execute that strategy is key. But where to start, especially if your marketing team is a team of just a few people or even no one at all? Here [...]
Grave impact of pandemic on English football laid bare by report but US investor appetite grows

August 12, 2021

A report published by accountancy firm BDO has displayed the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on English football clubs. The BDO report, which surveyed the finance directors from the top four leagues, found that more than 80 per cent of clubs accessed the furlough scheme, while 70 per cent deferred tax payments. The impact of [...]
Real Madrid to sue La Liga and CVC chiefs over €2.7bn deal

August 10, 2021

Real Madrid is suing bosses at La Liga and CVC Capital Partners over a €2.7bn (£2.3bn) deal that will see the private equity firm take a 10 per cent stake in Spain’s top-flight league. The football club said it will take civil and criminal action against La Liga president Javier Tebas and CVC chief Javier [...]
Messi to join PSG on two-year deal worth £25m a year

August 10, 2021

Lionel Messi has agreed to join Paris Saint Germain on a two-year contract. The deal is subject to a medical and has the option to be extended to a third year. Messi, 34, left Barcelona after over two decades of service at the Catalonian giants due to the club failing to comply with La Liga [...]
Boris Johnson: Team GB has ‘shown us the very best of this country’

August 8, 2021

Boris Johnson has praised Team GB’s performance at the Tokyo Olympics, hailing the group as showing “the very best of this country” as the Closing Ceremony begins. The games will close this afternoon, with Team GB picking up 22 gold medals and 65 medals in total. This put the UK and Northern Ireland in fourth [...]
Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Daley wins bronze to cement himself in British history as gold rush continues

August 7, 2021

Tom Daley won bronze in the men’s 10m platform at Tokyo 2020 to become the first British diver to claim four Olympic medals. Read more: Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Women’s 4x100m relay team break British record as Asher-Smith returns to track Daley secured his second medal of the games after winning gold last week in the [...]
Sutton United: How the non-league lifers did a Leicester – and why they have had to transform the club for their debut season in the EFL

August 7, 2021

Sutton United’s long-serving chairman Bruce Elliott has more than one reason to look forward to today’s trip to Forest Green Rovers. Elliott’s overriding emotion will be pride that the club he has been involved with for half a century has reached the English Football League (EFL) for the first time in their 123-year history. But [...]
The Last Letter From Your Lover review is a waste of talent

August 6, 2021

Two blockbuster heroes share top billing as Shailene Woodley (Divergent) and Felicity Jones (Star Wars: Rogue One) play two women in different times in literary adaptation The Last Letter From Your Lover. Jones plays Ellie, a journalist recovering from a break-up who views love with a degree of scepticism. This is shaken when she discovers [...]
Zola review – Twitter thread movie adaptation is full of suspense

August 6, 2021

‘Based on a true story’ is a common concept for movies, but how about ‘based on a Twitter thread’? In 2015, A’Ziah “Zola” King tweeted “Y’all wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out???????? It’s kind of long but full of suspense.” The subsequent thread become a viral sensation, described [...]