Month: October 2020

Organisers of this weekend’s Portuguese Grand Prix have been forced to reduce the number of fans that will be allowed into the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve in Portimao this weekend. Up to 46,000 tickets had been on sale for race day, approximately half the venue’s total capacity. A similar number of spectators had also been…

Southampton manager Ralph Hasenhuttl believes Project Big Picture would have made the Premier League “boring” and prevented a repeat of Leicester’s shock 2016 title triumph. Hasenhuttl was unsurprised to see the revolutionary proposals – which would have given greater power to the division’s so-called ‘big six’ sides – unanimously rejected by top-flight clubs. The Austrian…

Former Liverpool chairman Sir Martin Broughton believes fan activism played an important part in the sale of the club 10 years ago. The dysfunctional management of Tom Hicks and George Gillett, who owned the club for just over three years from 2007, provoked great unrest among supporters. It prompted the formation of the Spirit of…

Wout Weghorst has admitted that “it was serious with Tottenham” this summer. Weghorst has long been linked with a move to the Premier League, often talking up his desire to join Liverpool, while attracting interest from Arsenal and Newcastle. But the Wolfsburg striker has suggested that Tottenham also approached him over a deal this past…

Jurgen Klopp has explained why Liverpool’s 7-2 loss to Aston Villa was “more useful” than a minor defeat would have been. Liverpool’s stars departed for the international break immediately after their humiliating defeat to Villa and come back with the Merseyside derby on Saturday. And Klopp says it was important that his players didn’t allow…

Manchester United reportedly have Donny van de Beek on a rigorous strength programme to prepare him for the extra physicality of the Premier League. Click Here: Cardiff Blues Store The Sun claim United are impressed by the Dutch midfielder’s ‘core fitness’ but want to ‘beef him up’. There is no more detail than that, but…

The U.S. and Philippine governments have agreed on a 10-year pact to open this southeast Asian country to more U.S. troops, warships, and fighter planes, flouting the people’s movements that booted the U.S. military from its permanent Philippine bases over twenty years ago. “We have lost too much because of the U.S. military presence in…

Champions of organic food brought the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) meeting to a halt on Tuesday as they raised their voices against what they see as the takeover of the organic standards by the corporate food industry. The NOSB—an advisory board to the USDA  and designed to represent farmers, consumers and other advocates of…

Climate defenders in Canada have stopped work on a section of Enbridge’s controversial ‘Line 9’ pipeline in Burlington, Ontario Tuesday morning, as part of a rising tide of resistance against the proliferation of tar sands oil—dubbed “the dirtiest fuel in the world.” The group—which is comprised of environmentalists, local residents, and members of First Nations—arrived…

Military strikes with the goal of targeting “terrorists” appear to have once again resulted in civilian casualties. Air strikes conducted early Wednesday by the Pakistani military pounded North Waziristan and were touted as killing scores of people described as militants and terrorists. “Confirmed militant hide-outs were targeted early morning today in North Waziristan through precision…