Category Archives: Sports

Mikel Arteta urges Arsenal to ‘make no more mistakes’ as they try to avoid slump

Arsenal have lost their last three games in all competitions to drop to fourth in the Premier League – PA/Andrew Matthews Mikel Arteta admits Arsenal cannot tolerate any more mistakes if they want to stay in the Premier League title race. The Arsenal manager also admitted that it was a worrying situation during his tenure… Read More »

Bristol Bears hope Champions Cup ends with humbling defeat against Connacht

Bundee Aki (right) returns to the starting lineup for Connacht’s final pool match – Getty Images/Seb Daly Connacht 27 Bristol Bears 10 Bristol needed a dominant victory to keep their hopes of progressing at the pool stage alive but what they got in Galway was the antithesis of that. Needing no more than five points… Read More »

Saudi Arabia’s football dreams fade in the shadow of China’s failure

Jordan Henderson failed to settle in Saudi Arabia and eventually wanted to leave despite the high salary he left – Yasser Bakhsh/Getty Images With cameras focused on Premier League managers at the start of the season, it was fair for football reporters to ask to what extent the Saudi Pro League rivaled European competition. Pep… Read More »

Tennis and billiards are Saudi Arabia’s new frontier in sports land grabs

Rafael Nadal has agreed to become the ambassador of the Saudi Arabian tennis federation – Saudi Tennis Federation He has bought his way to the top of football, golf, boxing and Formula 1 in an unprecedented shake-up of the established order of world sport. Now tennis and billiards have become the last frontier of Saudi… Read More »

Roy Hodgson continues to fight as Crystal Palace look for a brighter future

Roy Hodgson kept Crystal Palace in the Premier League last year but some fans are ready to move on – Getty Images/Andrew Kearns The latest round of capital raising between Crystal Palace’s shareholders for the club’s new Selhurst Park main stand reached its final stages this week; This will be the first major work to… Read More »

Stop limiting us to two-minute rounds, female boxers say

Chantelle Cameron (right) among women calling for longer fights – Jason Cairnduff/Reuters Unified featherweight champion Amanda Serrano reignited a debate that has long divided opinion in boxing when she vacated the WBC title last month after the organization refused to sanction 12 three-minute round title bouts. Serrano’s fight against Danila Ramos last October saw the… Read More »