A police investigation is underway after the body of a man was found near Selhurst Park stadium yesterday evening. The victim, in his thirties or forties, was discovered in White Horse Lane with multiple stab wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The body …
The FT ad – see a bigger version here For sale: stricken south London football club, recently gone into administration. One not-too careful, permatanned owner. Club is £30 million in the hole. Buyer would come into possession of: a loyal if slightly deluded fanbase; the …
2.30pm update: A website called, appropriately enough, Sky 3D, has posted what it purports is the list of pubs that will be showing the game. Note: purports is the key word here, people — we’ve got no real idea if the list is legit or …
You can hear the cries from Croydon across the city (and maybe the gloats and cheers from Charlton to Millwall to Brighton): Crystal Palace have gone into administration, according to administrators P&A Partnership. Fans can’t say they haven’t been warned. The signs have been there …
New Hammers head honcho David Sullivan has wasted no time in mapping out his plans for the club: he wants Champions League action within seven years, and a move from the Boleyn ground to the Olympic stadium, just two miles away, after the 2012 Games …
Photo / Egghead06 A statement is expected imminently to confirm that businessmen David Gold and David Sullivan have taken a 50% controlling stake in West Ham United, as part of a £105 million deal. The pair have courted the club for months, and emerged victorious …
Just five games after he took the job, Queens Park Rangers boss Paul Hart has left the club “by mutual consent”, in the cliched nomenclature of football management, and will be temporarily replaced by assistant Mick Harford. Relations between the manager and certain of the …
Conservation groups in Tottenham (no giggling at the back, please) are vexed by the local club’s plans for a 56,000-seater stadium. The ground’s footprint would squash a nearby row of Victorian shops, thee Red House building, an Edwardian distillery, and the now-defunct White Hart pub, …
Welcome to the den of iniquity that is Bar Kick in Shoreditch – renowned for its laid-back atmosphere, killer caipirinhas, and proliferation of Baby-Foot tables. Yet on the last Tuesday of each month a level of passion over and above that of the game in …
Photo / Ari Levinson The best gift Barack Obama will get this Christmas is a successful healthcare reform vote, but second in the list is surely the special edition West Ham United shirt that was presented to him (via a White House official) at the …
Photo / Paul Blank A sting by the News of the World apparently shows England and Chelsea captain John Terry accepting £10,000 in return for a behind-the-scenes tour of Chelsea’s training facilities in Cobham. In a video on the red-top’s website, Terry, accompanied by ticket …
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