Author: James Martin
The Sheffield United manager, Chris Wilder, has been handed a Football Association charge for his bizarre rant about a sandwich-eating linesman. Wilder was incensed when one of the referee Tony Harrington’s assistants was consuming a sandwich when the Blades manager went to see him after the 3-2 defeat at Crystal Palace last month. Wilder described it as a “complete lack of respect” and also called Harrington’s performance “ridiculous” in an interview with BBC Radio Sheffield after the game. He said: “It’s yet again another ridiculous performance from the referee. Every 50/50 or tight decision goes against us and if that’s…
Welcome to Super League 2.0: well, the latest version of it, at least. For what has felt like an eternity, rugby league has repeatedly tried to reinvent itself. Super League and the switch from winter to summer was the sport’s biggest switch, back in 1996, but since then there have been plenty of other iterations all with the aim of broadening its appeal. Somewhere at the Rugby Football League’s headquarters there is a room filled with marketing gimmicks – licencing, Super 8s, Every Minute Matters – gathering dust but this season maybe there is cautious optimism that things are changing.…
WARREN, Mich. — Wearing a lab coat, Eve Vitale asked a chemistry class at Warren Mott High School if anyone had heard anything bad about plastics. Hands shot up. It doesn’t degrade, said one student. It hurts the environment, said another. But “that’s not really the plastic’s fault,” said Vitale, chief executive of the Society of Plastics Engineers Foundation, a group of industry professionals. “That’s the fault of humanity.” After warning what a “mess” it would be in supermarkets and hospitals without plastics, Vitale instructed that the plastic pollution crisis could be addressed through stepped up personal responsibility, product innovation…
Faulty egg-freezing products which affected more than 100 women at a London fertility clinic have also affected a fertility clinic in Sheffield, the fertility regulator has said.The Human Fertilisation Embryology Authority (HFEA) confirmed that the issue was limited to Guy’s and St Thomas’ Assisted Conception Unit in London, and Jessop Fertility in Sheffield.But the fertility regulator said it was satisfied that Jessop “undertook a thorough investigation when they first became aware of the issue and contacted and supported any patient affected”.The statement follows a leading London hospital having apologised to more than 100 women after their eggs and embryos were…
Thunderbastard. A football goal scored usually from long-range with high degrees of velocity and power. Think Davie Cooper in the 1987 Scottish League Cup final. Steven Reid for Blackburn against Wigan. Roughly 93% of Tony Yeboah’s goals for Leeds. You can volley your xG into the stands. Here is a football term that should be celebrated.Helpfully the Urban Dictionary definition gives an example of a memorable goal that happens to be the subject of this piece. The word may not have been on the lips of many in April 1986, but the phrase “title-chasing West Ham” was definitely part of…
I have always hated the term “helicopter parent.”It’s used as a criticism of parents who are overly involved in their children’s lives. Sometimes it’s the look (face wrinkled in disapproval) they get when they mention an adult child is living at home.But the findings of two reports from Pew Research Center show an interdependence between parents and their young adult offspring is both welcome and needed.Millennials have found a way to buy houses: Living with mom and dadAbout a third of young adults (ages 18 to 34) are living with their parents. And here’s the kicker: “A majority of young…
A South Korean court has sentenced two former senior police officers for destroying evidence linked to Seoul’s deadly 2022 Halloween crush.Tens of thousands of people, mostly in their 20s and 30s, had been out on 29 October 2022 to enjoy the first post-pandemic holiday celebrations in the popular Itaewon nightlife district. The night turned deadly when crowds poured into a narrow, sloping alleyway between bars and clubs, leading to nearly 160 people being crushed to death.The two former police officers were found to have ordered in the aftermath of the disaster the deletion of four internal police reports that had…
In the summer of 2007, Freddy Adu had reached a crossroads.He was on his way back from the 2007 Fifa Under-20 World Cup in Canada, at which he’d played the best football of his career – a career now almost four years old, despite the fact he’d turned 18 just a month earlier, and one comprised first of immeasurable hype and latterly of disappointment.The US had reached the quarter-finals, where they were beaten by Austria. It was a modest run for a talented squad. But Adu has shone brightly throughout, captaining the side as he scored a hat-trick against Poland…
The billionaire brothers who own the Asda supermarket chain borrowed millions of pounds from their petrol forecourt company to repay the debt taken on to buy two private jets, it has emerged.Corporate filings revealed that Mohsin and Zuber Issa, who bought Asda in 2020, used their EG Group, which runs thousands of petrol stations in the UK and overseas, to lend $7m (£5.6m) to two private jet companies they owned in 2022.The filings, seen by the Financial Times, show more than $5m (£4m) handed to one Issa-owned company, which controls a Bombardier Global 6000 plane, while the remaining $2m (£1.6m)…
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureRussia’s air defence systems destroyed nine Ukraine-launched drones over Russia’s Belgorod and Voronezh regions, as well as over the Black Sea, RIA state news agency reported on Wednesday.It cited the Russian defence ministry.Opening summaryGood morning and welcome to the Ukraine live blog. We start with news that Ukrainian armed forces have destroyed the large Russian landing ship Tsezar Kunikov off occupied Crimea in the Black Sea, the Ukrainian military said on Wednesday.“The Ukrainian Armed Forces, together with the Defence Ministry’s intelligence unit, destroyed the large landing ship Tsezar Kunikov.…