Professional whiner and sometime Arsenal football manager, Arsene Wenger, had cause to actually smile today (and not one of those wry smiles he does when he implies that another team cheated with what he probably thinks is some kind of Gallic charm, but an actual …
40 lucky people got to see a building site today. Not just any old building site though. It was that magical (for football fans) place called Wembley Stadium. The £757m stadium is almost two-thirds complete with just another year of work left (making the possibly …
As it’s Friday we feel we’re justified in reporting this little bit of non-news which turned up in the press today. Just two days after Pedro Mendes’ now infamous ‘goal’ against Man’ United (which, as everyone now knows, crossed the line by a good few …
Arsenal are currently second in the Premiership 7 points off the pace after a draw with Man City. Shaun Wright-Phillips hit home a spectacular shot for City and if his footballing career hits the heights it should do we will hopefully be spared the possibility …
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 …
It’s London derby day, and Sky Sports begin by alternating their coverage between badly photo-shopped Terminator imagery and what appears to be some kind of D-Day commemorative style coverage, before Richard “Wolfman” Keyes builds the game up to an unreachable level of expectation. The gist …
Did you know that softball is an Olympic Sport? Londonist had no idea. We must have missed the coverage of the nail biting US v Australia final in Athens earlier this year (America won 5-1 apparently). And if it’s an Olympic sport you can bet …
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. …
Question: which major worldwide brand opened a flagship store in central London this month? Answer: Adidas. Maybe not the best scheduling decision the world has ever seen. After all, we don’t recall seeing people queueing days in advance just to catch a glimpse of David …
We haven’t posted much about the Olympic bid recently. Mainly because you can read about it just about everywhere, but also because we’re sick to the back teeth of it. When it gets to the point where they’re using the DLR as a promotional tool …
Any attempt to bring the noble sport of darts to the Olympics was probably set back eight years this morning through the publication of this Bloomberg report. BSkyB plans to charge viewers £9.95 to watch the two darts world champions — Andy Fordham of the …
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