News archive from Monday, 07 May 2012, page 12
Folk review: Shetland Folk Festival
IT'S fair to say that Admiral Fallow are one of the hottest (and/or coolest) bands in Scotland right now. Already this year they’ve opened for Snow Patrol at the SECC and sold out their own Celtic Connections show; their feverishly anticipated second...
Diamond unapologetic over Sale's 'weakened' all-English selection
There is quite a cabaret going on at Sale these days: Steve Diamond, their head cook and bottlewasher, has been serving a touchline ban since February after giving the international referee Wayne Barnes too large a piece of his mind; the brutal...
Tim Cornwell: The future for books makes gloomy reading
IN EVELYN Waugh's classic satirical novel Decline and Fall, the headmaster of a fictional Welsh boys' boarding school, Llanaba Castle, makes sure to invite the local newspaper to a school sports day where things are certain to go calamitously wrong....
Kean's Rovers enter last-chance saloon
The Blackburn manager, Steve Kean, feels any nerves his players take into tonight's home game against Wigan Athletic could give them an extra edge in what will be a genuine relegation battle. Blackburn are 19th in the Premier League with two games to...
O'Brien pulls off Classic double – but Maybe not the one punters expected
As widely anticipated, Aidan O'Brien completed a Classic double here yesterday when adding the Qipco 1,000 Guineas to the colts' equivalent, won by Camelot the previous afternoon. But not even O'Brien could have entertained quite so bewildering a role...
DVD reviews: War Horse | Four
The Scotsman film critic Alistair Harkness gives us his take on the recent films making it to DVD War Horse Walt Disney, £19.99 WHEN War Horse trotted into cinemas this year, it was disconcerting to hear so many commentators refer to it as a return to...
Newcastle left to sweat it out after heroics
If only every week was a relegation decider. The final-day meeting of the Premiership's bottom two clubs attracted Wasps' first sell-out crowd of the season and if some of the rugby was as attractive as a bulldog chewing a wasp, you cannot have...
TV preview: Homeland | Planet Earth Live
ANDREA MULLANEY It’s probably not the best time to start watching Homeland, which concludes its first series this week, but for those that have been with it all the way, it’s been a hell of a ride (and for the rest, there’s always the DVD). At times...
Slack Arsenal deliver 'massive blow' to Wenger
In May, it is impossible to hide your competitive character. Arsenal were playing for Champions League qualification on Saturday but they wilted, delivering one of their poorest performances of the season. Norwich City were playing for nothing but...
Radio listener with Jim Gilchrist
jim gilchrist But does he mean it? He turns his Victor Meldrew catchphrase “I don’t believe it!” on its head in his four-part “celebrity radiography” BELIEVE IT!, in which he laces alleged reminiscences with unlikely tales and a certain surreal...
James Lawton: Touré displays the character that decides championships
For the briefest time there was a wild set of allegations made against Yaya Touré. They could be pared down easily enough. He was overpriced, overweight and over here. He has been ridiculing such sacrilege for quite some time, of course, but yesterday...
Janet Christie: Mum’s the Word
I HAVEN'T had parents for more than 25 years so I generally regard myself as an adult, but as far as my aunty and uncle are concerned I'm still about ten. I’m not saying I don’t love it when people parent me, I’m just not used to it. We’re staying in...
Ferguson clutches at straws as title slips away
As he stood before the Stretford End and promised those who had stayed behind "the celebration of our lives" on Sunday, you wondered how much of Sir Alex Ferguson really believed it. There have been few victories at Old Trafford that have...
Interiors: When furnishing their Borders B&B one couple took inspiration from exotic trips to Phuket and Bali
JOHN Tomnay once had the kind of relationship with DIY that found him calling on professional help to hang a picture. These days he wouldn't think twice about clambering on to a roof or under a floor. Life has certainly changed for John and his wife...
United relying on favours as City have 'two hands on prize'
This is the afternoon which, in recent years, has generally involved the manager seizing the microphone and indulging in one of his silly jigs and a few years ago had Cristiano Ronaldo interviewing Anderson in the dressing room for the cameras, before...
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