In the depths of the capital secluded from sight and the balmy weather, a man stretches in his private chambers ahead of a grand performance. It is a performance he has undertaken many times before in his life, and as the crowd outside throngs and gathers, he touches his toes and completes jumping jacks and if anyone was present to…
So Braun Strowman rudely interrupted an interview with the taciturn Roman Reigns this past Monday on Raw, and boy did he ever dole out the punishment! He tossed him face-first into a wall, snatched him by the throat before throwing him headlong through a table, and as Reigns lingered forlornly in the venue’s entrance way, Braun powerslammed him onto a…
It was ‘The Ultimate Thrill Ride’ on ‘The Grandest Stage of Them All’, ‘The Show of Shows’, ‘The Showcase of the Immortals’, ‘The Greatest Spectacle in Sports Entertainment’. Adding to the list on an annual basis, this year’s WrestleMania had almost as many taglines as spectators. Almost – but not quite. For WrestleMania 33, which took place at the Camping…
‘Waaaaaahhhhhhoooooohhhhhhuuurrrggghhh isn’t it all horrible!’. That’s the noise being made at the moment by Arsenal Football Club fans, the most brattish and entitled set of supporters in the country. Twenty consecutive top four finishes in the Premier League and an uninterrupted stream of appearances in the Champions League, Europe’s most prestigious club competition, two league and FA Cup doubles, three…
When the New England Patriots made the biggest comeback in Super Bowl history, treading the Atlanta Falcons’ dreams firmly into the dust, President Donald Trump knew that he was on to a winner. The dumbed-down embodiment of a coked-up Charlie Sheen even tweeted as much. Though he left his own Super Bowl party early, in a huff when the Patriots…
A peculiar physics was in operation at this year’s Australian Open, as faster courts served to roll back the clock. Thankfully the rush of serve-and-volley and the rapid gyration of fuzzy yellow balls failed to revert us to a time before tennis, for instance to a Melbourne inhabited by hunter-gatherers or during the exponential growth of the Victorian gold rush. Instead…
Under Alex Ferguson, Manchester United always spent big in the transfer market, breaking records and making statements from the bucolic days of Mark Hughes and Roy Keane. Their relentless quest for success saw them snatch up and inevitably wear down Andy Cole, Jaap Stam, Dwight Yorke, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Juan Sebastian Veron, Rio Ferdinand, and Dimitar Berbatov. And they even…
After masterminding Sunderland’s 2-2 draw at home to second-in-the-table Liverpool – a result which left the Black Cats seventeenth and still loitering with intent inside the relegation zone – manager David Moyes felt himself more than deserving of a little praise. Frolicking in the land of make believe, the usually despondent Scot said ‘I feel we weren’t too defensive today…
More than a year in the making, Ronda Rousey’s return to the Octagon was hotly anticipated, and not just in the loins when she emerged from her long hibernation looking lithe and lean and in all-round great shape. Alas it proved shockingly short-lived. Bruised and benumbed by the blistering hands of Brazilian Bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes, within just 48 seconds…
It would be wrong to affirm that nobody at all wanted to see Brock Lesnar vs. Goldberg at Survivor Series, a rematch from the pair’s only previous encounter, which took place at WrestleMania XX more than twelve long years ago. Surely there were youngsters, somehow lumbered with the current product, who were eager for a glimpse of what a quirk…
