Crystal Palace’s Adam Wharton passes the ball against Newcastle United (Getty Images) Alex Scott, Keane Lewis-Potter, Harry Souttar and Joao Pedro have all made the step up from the Championship to the Premier League in recent seasons, but have struggled to match the form that saw Bournemouth, Brentford, Leicester and Brighton make it splashing out … Read more
Sitting in the penthouse bar of the Congress Hotel in Chemnitz, looking at the bleak modern cityscape below, you get a good idea of what Western Europe would have looked like if Russia had won the Cold War. Below this ugly socialist skyscraper are rows and rows of brutalist apartment buildings – soulless, faceless, monotonous … Read more
There’s something in the water – E.coli to be precise. After high levels of the bacteria were found in the Seine, questions were raised about how safe it would be for the triathletes and open water swimmers competing in the 2024 Olympics. Meanwhile, just before the Oxford and Cambridge boat race in March, both teams … Read more
(AFP via Getty Images) Aston Villa take on Olympiacos in the first leg of the Europa Conference League semi-final on Thursday evening, a return to the last four of a major European competition for the first time in more than four decades for the Midlands club. It comes at the culmination of a season of … Read more
More than a decade ago, Vladimir Jurowski, one of Russia’s best-known musical sons, began to realize that things in his native country were taking a sinister turn. “It was a feeling, a premonition that things would get worse, especially after Russia annexed Crimea,” says the 52-year-old conductor. “The irony was that at that exact moment … Read more