Premier League’s ‘poor’ clubs show flops Chelsea, Liverpool and Spurs big money can’t buy success
Brentford are the Premier League club overachieving the most while Chelsea and Liverpool are getting very little value for money, according to their wage bills in the latest accounts released for the past financial year. Top flight teams had until the end of March to file accounts for the previous...
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta confident of maximum points at Liverpool’s Ainfield ‘jungle’
Mikel Arteta has backed his Arsenal side to embrace Anfield’s “jungle” atmosphere and end their 11-year wait for a win there. Arsenal face Liverpool on Sunday looking to maintain their eight-point lead at the top of the Premier League over Manchester City. The Gunners have a miserable record at Anfield,...
Premier League’s top stars’ addiction to tobacco stirs professional body’s fears of players’ health
English Premier League aces are seeking help after becoming addicted to tobacco product snus, it has been revealed. The pouches are put in the mouth like old-fashioned chewing tobacco and are seen as less harmful than cigarettes. But with many players hooked and struggling to cope, the Professional Footballers’ Association...
Human rights activist and scion of the Kennedy family Robert F. Kennedy plots to succeed Biden
Human rights activists and a member of a prominent family in American politics Robert F Kennedy Jr is on course to seeking Democratic Party nomination to succeed President Joe Biden in 1924 elections. Kennedy, founder of Children’s Health Defense (CHD), on Wednesday moved a step closer to seeking the Democratic...
With Premier League out of reach of Liverpool and Chelsea, they can only play for pride
Liverpool and Chelsea players have more than pride to play for in the remaining weeks. Unless they buck up, the classes of 2023 will record their club’s worst seasons this century – and in Liverpool’s case since the 1960s. Jurgen Klopp’s side currently sit eighth in the Premier League table...
Hush money: Voter rating of ex-US President Trump soar as son admits he signed cheque for porn star
Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in a Manhattan court – and looked “vulnerable”, a former ambassador has said. But a pollster says the case is “helping” him electorally, and it is now “almost inevitable” he will win the Republican nomination. Donald Trump...
Republicans jittery about Trump’s felonies, as California court orders porn star Stormy Daniels’ lawyers his $122,000
The judge overseeing former President Trump’s criminal case in New York City has set the next in-person hearing for December 4, roughly two months before the official start of the 2024 Republican presidential primary calendar. Trump was arraigned in Manhattan in front of Judge Juan Merchan on Tuesday, where he...
Ex-US President Trump scoffs at 34 felony counts of tax evasion, skirt lifting and hush-money payments
Former President Donald Trump was charged on Tuesday with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a historic case over allegations he orchestrated hush-money payments to two women before the 2016 US election to suppress publication of their sexual encounters with him. Prosecutors in Manhattan accused Trump, the first...
Financing violent extremism: How terror groups in Africa prey on local businesses to deliver brutal justice
Moustapha was running out of hope. The Nigerien man had a family to feed but little means to do so. Like scores of people around the continent, he was persuaded to join and fight for a violent extremist organisation. “I joined because I felt frustrated with the conditions of everyday...
Risking democracy: Power-sharing may soon become Kenya’s default mode after every election
Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga and his coalition party, Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya called for mass protests across the country on March 20, marking the beginning of violent expression of disconcert with the government failure or inability to rein in high cost and galloping inflation. Odinga and his team have...
