SPRING has sprung in the real world – but for millions of Game Of Thrones viewers, winter is here. The final season of the gripping TV series — known for its “winter is coming” warning — hits our screens on Monday. Not surprisingly, retailers are stocking up with lots of tie-in products to mark the […]
EVERY week that Aaron Ramsey’s move to Juventus draws closer, the more baffling Arsenal’s decision to let him leave becomes. Even Unai Emery has given up pretending that the Welsh international is just a small cog in a giant Emirates machine. For every time the Gunners need a big performance to keep their season on […]
ARSENAL got the win they desperately needed if they stand any chance of reaching the Europa League semi-finals. That man Aaron Ramsey made it two goals in as many home matches when he put the Gunners in front with 14 minutes on the clock. Lucas Torreira added a second – via a huge deflection ten […]
KATIE Price has come under fire AGAIN, this time being accused of ripping off fans by selling overpriced clothes from her new children’s range. The mum-of-five has launched a clothing line named after her children – but it’s now being claimed she has hiked up the prices. Katie launched two kids ranges named after her […]
IT IS NOT often that a group of young men from England arrive in Prague hungover. That’s usually how they head home. But the way that Chelsea shuffled and trudged through a dreary night out in Europe’s stag party capital suggests boss Maurizio Sarri’s moans about fixture congestion may be right. Despite seven changes to […]
MARCOS ALONSO was Chelsea’s unexpected saviour on a night when boss Maurizio Sarri was given more questions than answers. Wing-back Alonso hit the only goal late in a dour Europa League quarter-final first leg at Slavia Prague – but few of the Blues’ fringe men impressed. Here’s how they fared. KEPA ARRIZABALAGA Two poor kicks […]
SANTI CAZORLA saw his hopes of an emotional Arsenal reunion quashed as Valencia scored twice in stoppage time against Villarreal. The victor of Arsenal vs Napoli will play the winner of the all-Spanish clash in the Europa League semi-finals. Former Gunners playmaker Cazorla, 34, smashed home a penalty to equalise for Villarreal in the first […]
THE boss of Disney has blasted social media by saying Nazi leader Adolf Hitler would have been a fan of it. Bob Iger, 68, warned that “hate and anger are dragging us toward the abyss” as he urged people to be nicer online. He said: “Hitler would have loved social media. It’s the most powerful […]
CHELSEA travel to Czech Republic to face Slavia Prague in the Europa League quarter-final first leg. The Blues will be expected to cruise into the next round as one of the favourites to win the tournament – but their last eight opponents will not go quietly after knocking out Sevilla in the previous stage.
TIGER WOODS ended a six-year wait to lead the Masters – before a late stumble dropped him back. The four-time Masters winner took a share of the lead on three under midway through day one after a birdie on the 14th. But a bogey on the par-4 17th slipped him back to two under before […]
A CRUEL couple kept victims of trafficking as slaves and forced them to work at farms supplying The Happy Egg Company. Darrell Houghton and Jackie Judge, in their 50s, paid the group of Lithuanians a pittance. The men claim they were punched and threatened with Rottweilers and kept in poor conditions. The couple’s firm, DJ […]
GEMMA Collins threw a cup of tea in a Celebrity Juice crew member’s face to prove that she is a bigger diva than Michelle Visage. In shock scenes that will air in tonight’s episode of the ITV2 game show, 38-year-old Gemma proves that there is nothing that she will not do to secure her diva […]
A TEEN mum used 20 fake social media accounts to bombard her ex with messages after their break-up. Amy Stafford, 19, even conjured up a made-up story that their baby was rushed into hospital — in an attempt to lure James Southby into contacting her. On another occasion, she posed as a girl looking for […]
ANSWERING the call of nature in your posh wedding dress, when you’re wearing layers of tulle, taffeta and netting, can be nigh-on impossible. But a clever bride has invented a genius IKEA bag hack to hold up wedding dresses while going to the toilet. The big, sturdy blue bags, which sometimes double up as laundry […]
THESE nightmarish pictures show a man’s collapsed iris after he was struck in his left eye by a bungee cord. The 48-year-old had been trying to secure goods onto his motorbike when the elastic cordage came loose and whipped him in the eyeball. Straight away the man was left in agonising pain but for the […]
KALIDOU KOULIBALY left Manchester United fans sceptical over a world record bid for the Napoli defender as he struggled to keep out Arsenal. The Senegal centre-back could smash the highest fee ever paid for a defender – but spent some of tonight shattering his reputation, judging by social media reaction. After Aaron Ramsey capped a […]
ANT McPartlin used to sneak off to booze when he was performing with Declan Donnelly as PJ & Duncan, his former tour manager has revealed. Mike Faux says in an explosive documentary to air on Friday that the Britain’s Got Talent presenter turned to boozing in the 1990s to deal with his newfound fame. The […]
RAK-SU won The X Factor in 2017 but almost 18 months later it’s time for Simon Cowell to face the music. The four-piece have hit out at the mogul’s record label Syco, saying their time there had been “frustrating” and “confusing” because they struggled to get their songs released. Last October a row erupted between […]
MANCHESTER CITY are running the rule over Serbia striker Luka Jovic tonight. City director of football Txiki Begiristain is on the guestlist at Estadio da Luz to watch Jovic play for Eintracht Frankfurt against parent club Benfica in the Europa League. And the reports are bound to be positive – the 21-year-old scored against his […]
THREE Chelsea fans were banned from Slavia Prague’s stadium after being caught on video chanting vile racist abuse towards Mo Salah. The clip shows a group of Blues supporters in a Prague bar singing “Salah is a bomber” to the tune of September by Earth, Wind and Fire. But they were denied entry to the […]
CHELSEA were branded “embarrassing” by their own fans after struggling to perform against Slavia Prague. The Blues were second-best in all areas during the first half in the Czech Republic. And Maurizio Sarri’s side will need to up their game dramatically if they want to progress past the Europa League quarter-final tie. Chelsea struggled to […]
THE first privately funded mission to the Moon has crashed on the lunar surface after the apparent failure of its main engine. The Israeli spacecraft Beresheet reached the moon on but its planned controlled, or “soft”, landing was unsuccessful, the support team said. It had a number of technical problems during its final descent to […]
LUCAS TORREIRA appeared to dedicate his third Arsenal goal to a friend – and could have evaded a Uefa rap. The midfielder, 23, scored the Gunners’ second against Napoli tonight, dispossessing Fabian Ruiz, turning him inside out and then seeing his effort deflect off Kalidou Koulibaly. But immediately after the ball hit Alex Meret’s net, […]
NIGEL Farage is returning to frontline politics in a new political guise called The Brexit Party. He is on a mission to rectify what he sees as the ‘establishment’s failure to deliver Brexit. What is The Brexit Party? The Brexit Party is a new right-wing party with a populist outlook. In a Twitter message it […]
A QUEEN’S Guard soldier engaged in sexual activity with a girl of 14, a court heard on Thursday. Alleged paedophile Jordan Davies, 19, met the child on April 6 last year, it’s claimed. He also faces a charge of meeting a girl three weeks later after grooming. Davies, of the First Battalion Coldstream Guards, based […]