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The third round of the FA Cup, in particular Exeter City’s draw at Old Trafford, inspired the media romantics to come out in force this week. The Grecians’ plucky display had the back pages purring on the subject of magic, wonderment and underdogs sticking it …

Alex’s Premiership Roundup: A weekend of Premiership fixtures. Just another staging point in a league that is rapidly rivalling Scotland’s for the title of ‘most predictable in Europe’? Or a moment of truth for every one of the teams involved, each locked in a desperate …

Not content with wreaking havoc through The Premiership, Arsenal football club are also running riot over small business folk standing between them and huge profits. As part of Arsenal Football Clubs grand plan to position themselves in the UEFA uber-club sphere (the breakaway league is …

Londonist is always keen to hear amusing tales of our more highly paid, sharper dressed fellow Londoners working over in the city, which usually involve paying out an amount equivalent to the Gross Domestic Product of Chile ($156.1 billion, 2002 estimate) on a night out. …

London’s prestigious tennis establishment, the Queens Club, home of the Lawn Tennis Association, is apparently under threat. ‘Under threat’ always sounds so promising but it doesn’t look like the threat is either aliens, Godzilla or rapid climate change, but more financial, as a move to …

Londonist hasn’t had any interest in the word of pro-wrestling since we were about eight (and we only watched it then because all our mates did). But this story of an American wrestling ‘star’ who was convicted of “causing unnecessary suffering to a 12-foot python” …

This week sees the third round of