Category: Sport

Social media abuseIt’s much more than a gripe, yes. Manchester United announced shortly before English football’s social media boycott that online abuse aimed at their players had increased by 350% since 2019. It’s a staggering rise and speaks to the lack of moral and social responsibility taken by the big tech companies in properly rooting […]

The turf and its betting rings have been an irresistible attraction to many colourful and controversial characters over the last three centuries and Barney Curley, who died on Sunday at the age of 81, deserves to be remembered as perhaps the greatest gambler of them all. The Yellow Sam coup in 1975, when Curley arranged […]

Ian WrightOn Sunday’s season finale of Match of the Day, Ian Wright managed (much to the bewilderment of Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer) to mention UK rappers Russ Millions and Tion Wayne, described Leeds United as an “imperial star-fleet coming out of hyperspace” and even voted for a Tottenham player, Érik Lamela, to win goal […]

Lewis Hamilton believes that every point will be vital in the Formula One title fight this season after a comprehensive defeat by Red Bull at the Monaco Grand Prix. The world champion finished seventh while Red Bull’s Max Verstappen scored his first win in Monaco and in so doing took the lead of the drivers’ […]

Thomas Tuchel is confident that Édouard Mendy will start the Champions League final against Manchester City after scans indicated that the Chelsea goalkeeper’s rib injury is not serious. Mendy, who went off at half-time during Sunday’s 2-1 defeat at Aston Villa, had tests on the injury on Monday and the early signs suggest Chelsea will […]

As Phil Mickelson became the oldest major winner of all time on Sunday, a number of other athletes who have achieved success in the later stages of their careers paid tribute. Mickelson claimed the US PGA Championship at the age of 50 and one of the first to offer their congratulations was his old rival […]

Max Whitlock will lead the Great Britain men’s gymnastics team in Tokyo as he aims to become the fourth man in history to successfully defend an Olympic pommel horse title. The 28-year-old veteran is joined in the four-man team by the 2019 parallel bars world champion Joe Fraser, 22, James Hall, 25, and 22-year-old Giarrni […]