Photo / dullhunk Rumours outta Tinsletown suggest that Britain’s most popular Stateside export since smallpox, David Beckham and wife Victoria, are fixing to buy a property in London. Lest LA Galaxy fans fear that Becks won’t be around to put in his token 15% effort …
Why is it that royals called Charles have such a talent for winding up their lordships? Lord Rogers, the architect responsible for the Chelsea Barracks development, is furious that – by having the audacity to criticise his work – the Prince of Wales has set …
Image by Matthew Gidley Two cash-rich, patience-poor west London football clubs unveiled their sixth managers in as many years this week. Yet the new appointments at Chelsea and Queens Park Rangers couldn’t be more divergent: while the Blues’ Carlo Ancelotti brings continental class, a stackload …
Image / onenil v2 England’s top four clubs rarely sell between eachother, and players transferring to hated rivals is a typically dramatic affair, yet rumours coming out of north London this morning suggest that both may happen at once: Arsene Wenger hinted he may be …
Picture of Thierry Henry in New York via themikelee’s Flickr stream @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/themikelee/2687872472/ I don’t know if the referee was wearing a Barcelona shirt because they kicked me all over the place. If the referee did not want us to win he should have said …
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops The John Sandoe bookshop in Chelsea has been going for over 50 years and is a bit of an institution. The eponymous John Sandoe ran the shop until his retirement in 1989 when staff and customers took over, …
Image by allyzally Emboldened by his impending star turn at RIBA, Prince Charles has returned to where his fledgling career in architectural criticism began by launching another broadside against a Richard Rogers project. The Prince is piqued by the architect’s plan for Chelsea Barracks, the …
Madge isn’t the only one peeved about not having enough children: Chelsea residents are irked about the local council’s decision to turf a family out of a £1.2 million council house because they didn’t have enough offspring. Jamie Pascall, a tenant in the Billing Street …
Photo via Ethan.K’s Flickr stream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ethankan/184142304/ The Varsity Boat Race was re-enacted at Loftus Road last night as the plucky underdogs made the early running only for the favourites to put on a surge about a third of the way through which their opponents …
Photo via Nigel Wilson’s Flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cocca/2254496847/ Fry and Laurie would be working themselves up into a right old state about the opportunities available to the capital’s football watchers over the next few days. It’s not every day that you can pitch up at the …
Image by Marty Nelson News this week from the great city of Londongrad about two of our fine Russian friends with interests in the city of a footballing nature. Firstly, Roman Abramovich, he of the perma-bemused boat race as he watches his team of misfits …
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