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For the first time since Tottenham Hotspur dashed Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough’s dreams of FA Cup glory in 1991 the final is being contested without a representative from English football’s current Big Four. Just before 3pm on Saturday the fans of Portsmouth and Cardiff …

Everyone always says that there’s not many acts out there that can play Wembley, but I don’t necessarily buy that. I reckon at any one point there’s probably about fifty acts that could. It just depends how many tour. That’s the opinion of Wembley Stadium’s …

As we supped a coffee in a Wembley Stadium cafe with the landmark venue’s Head of Music and New Events, Jim Frayling, we admired a large photo of the May 1975 attempt by daredevil motorcycle ace Evel Knievel to launch himself over thirteen single-deck AEC …

“Everything is better with a bit of humour.” So said Roberto Donadoni, as Italian football manager the incumbent of one of the most pressurised posts in the world, last Monday night in a special seminar organised by Birkbeck College Sport Business Centre. A healthy dose …

The NFL are coming back, the Rugby League Challenge Cup final is a permanent fixture and last week’s announcement of a December 3rd clash at Wembley Stadium between Australia and the Barbarians added Rugby Union to the portfolio of sports staged there since it was …

In football, as everywhere else in 21st century life, the issue of “local versus global” is coming increasingly to the fore. This week the Birkbeck College Sport Business Centre in Bloomsbury, renowned for its research into the business of sport in general and football in …

There may not be a London Grand Prix just yet, but for the second time in five years the capital is playing host to some of the world’s most glamorous pieces of motor sport hardware. If Formula 1 is the Champions League of single-seater car …

A Premiership title decided well before the final day and an FA Cup final between Portsmouth and Cardiff City are not likely to enchant English football’s television paymasters around the world. Many football fans are delighted at Wembley’s unexpected May guests, but a predictable league …

Having proved last summer that their fusion of imaginative rock and up-to-the-minute visual pyrotechnics can light up a sold-out Wembley Stadium, Muse last night reminded everyone that they are equally compelling in the raw as they harnessed the unique surroundings of the Royal Albert Hall …

If you go down to the Cutty Sark tomorrow you’re sure of a big surprise. Or two. The 138 year-old tea clipper, one of the most recognisable landmarks on the London Marathon course over its previous twenty-six runnings, was engulfed by a fire last May, …