FURIOUS Barcelona fans called for Clement Lenglet’s contract to be ripped up as he was seen laughing with Robert Lewandowski after the Catalans crashed out the Champions League. Barca were walloped 3-0 in Germany on Wednesday and ended up finishing third in Group E – their earliest Champions League exitContinue Reading
Dukedom, a John Gosden-trained ‘left-over’ from the 2021 turf season, which concluded last month, races for the first time on an all-weather course when he attempts to make it fifth time lucky and go one better in a thirteen-runner Novice Stakes over six furlongs of Chelmsford polytrack today. It’s 55Continue Reading
FORMER Real Madrid hardman Pepe revealed he slept in bed with his mum until he was 17 – much to the annoyance of his dad. The Portuguese centre-back, 38, now captains Porto but grew up in Brazil before leaving for Europe when he turned 18. 1 Veteran Porto defender PepeContinue Reading
Asean Legend meets median time-handicap requirement in division one of a Novice Stakes over seven furlongs of Kempton tonight when the obligatory lavish eight-race Winter ‘Wednesday-nighter’ affords a couple of half-decent wagers for two-year-old aficionados like myself. Weather conditions are grim and so the usual sparse crowd might be cuddledContinue Reading
NICOLAS PEPE’S future at Arsenal is looking increasingly uncertain after the latest snub by boss Mikel Arteta. The Gunners’ £72million record signing was an unused substitute for the 2-1 defeat at Everton on Monday night. 3 Arsenal winger Nicolas Pepe has been an unused substitute in the last five PremierContinue Reading
Royal Rustle wasn’t able to fend off heavily-backed favourite Kavanaghs Cross in a Maiden Hurdle over two miles of ‘soft’ ground Kelso on Sunday but this was THE race of a tremendous week for me and I’d relish owning Lucinda Russell’s charge, definitely my kind of racehorse; unfortunately it can’tContinue Reading
MAX VERSTAPPEN will “do everything” to beat Lewis Hamilton in this weekend’s Formula One title decider in Abu Dhabi. That is according to Verstappen‘s father Jos, who is a former F1 driver himself and believes his son will leave it all out on the track as his rivalry with HamiltonContinue Reading
LEWIS HAMILTON and Max Verstappen’s EPIC F1 title race is going right to the wire, as the defending champ branded his rival “f****** crazy.” The pair finished first and second in Saudi Arabia and are now level on points going into a nail-biting final weekend of fast track action. ThereContinue Reading
Last Ammo (5/2) was a dramatic last stride winner on Wolverhampton tapeta and enabled ‘Super-Saturday’ to be profitable with a 6/1 double into Ree Okka, my 11/10 nap; James Doyle was simply magnificent and deserves tremendous praise for persistence because it looked a lost cause when John Gosden-trained Yummylicious forgedContinue Reading
MAN UTD 0-0 CRYSTAL PALACE 2 And another quick reminder: Crystal Palace manager Patrick Vieira appears to have opted for a 4-3-3 formation with two changes to the team that lost at Leeds on Tuesday. Vicente Guaita starts in goal with Nathaniel Clyne replacing Joel Ward at right-back and TyrickContinue Reading
