Aggrieved villagers are locked in a three-way legal battle over the loss of ancient grazing rights which they say has left them with just £100 income per year while their parish council, a golf club and the National Trust carve up more than £200,000 between them. Locals claim they were left the land by an…
Deepdale was the venue of English football’s most interminable penalty shootout on Tuesday night. After playing out a 1-1 draw in normal time during their Carabao Cup third-round tie, Fulham and Preston North End took a record-breaking 34 penalties between them, with an astonishing 31 finding the net. Excluding FA Cup qualifiers, this was the…
Before Sidney Crosby’s first home opener at Pittsburgh’s now-extinct Mellon Arena in October 2005, Mario Lemieux walked past a media scrum encircling Crosby and into the players’ lounge, pouring a cup of black coffee. Smirking, he opined about soon being “forgotten.” Then, in an unusually earnest moment, Lemieux predicted Crosby would “own all my records…
Deliveroo co-founder Will Shu has sold nearly £15million of shares in his food delivery group just weeks after the company reported its first ever profit. Chief executive Shu, 44, who has previously admitted to being ‘obsessive’ about making his company a success after setting it up more than a decade ago, has sold 9.4m shares worth…
Enjoy the next three years of watching Sidney Crosby play for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Breathe it in. Cherish it. Get a little sentimental, if necessary. Never in your lifetime will you see his kind again. I’m not talking about the hockey, the backhand, the vision, the power, the tenacity — you know, all of the…