Category Archives: Sports

Enzo Maresca interview: The ‘idea’ behind Leicester’s transformation and 54 passing goals

Photo taken at Leicester’s training ground shows Enzo Maresca seeing his side take a 12-point lead at the top of the Championship – The Telegraph’s Andrew Fox Enzo Maresca’s dream of forming a football team with Leicester City first started to take shape on June 4 last year. Maresca was part of Pep Guardiola’s coaching… Read More »

Ben Stokes and England have a review problem and India made them pay for it

UK softens stance when it comes to DRS – Reuters/Francis Maccarenhas Faced with sweltering heat and a typically flat Rajkot wicket, England would once leave the first day chattering about the few marginal lbw decisions that went against them. Instead, England cannot even console themselves by complaining about the referee: they only have themselves to… Read More »

Mikaela Shiffrin interview: ‘You can’t get into a fight with a mountain and expect to win’

Shiffrin aims for 100 World Cup wins – Getty Images/Ezra Shaw There’s a perverse irony in the fact that three days after talking to Mikaela Shiffrin about her career, her goals, and, of course, the current plethora of high-profile accidents in elite skiing, she herself suffered a bad fall in a downhill race. He threatens… Read More »

Immanuel Feyi-Waboso: Cardiff Uni rejection put me on the England path

England win bid for Immanuel Feyi-Waboso’s international commitments – Getty Images/David Rodgers England last wing Immanuel Feyi-Waboso, who was born in Wales, has revealed that he never wondered which path he would have taken if he had been accepted to study medicine at Cardiff University. Feyi-Waboso was denied a place at Cardiff despite achieving three… Read More »

France is starting to look like the rabble it was five years ago

Fabien Galthie has problems to solve for France – Getty Images/Andy Buchanan Who are you and what have you done to the children in Bleu? A renewed France that does away with traditional Gallic clichés; dazzling France; France that allows fans to dream of the daring and daring with the ball in hand. Following an… Read More »

Colin Graves’ return marks an end to Yorkshire’s toxic £500,000 battle with ‘sacked’ medical chief

Colin Graves returns to Yorkshire board – Allan McKenzie/PA Colin Graves’ return to Yorkshire has seen them finally end their toxic £500,000 legal battle with ‘sacked’ medical chiefs, which led to horrific accusations over the Azeem Rafiq racism scandal. The club can be revealed to have reached an out-of-court settlement with England’s former physiotherapist Wayne… Read More »

Worcester Women’s death: ‘They passed two financial checks, then decided they couldn’t afford us’

Worcester Warriors Women withdraw from PWR in October – Shutterstock/Ashley Crowden When Worcester Warriors Women abruptly withdrew from Premiership Women’s Rugby last October, Stef Evans made a promise to herself. The Canadian forward had a modest contract at Sixways but was no longer ready to play for free when he started trying out for a… Read More »