Newcastle’s Carabao Cup win: part feelgood story, part PR triumph for dictator state ambition | Barney Ronay
Well, that’s the nice bit done. Warm feelings, heritage bonds, a cocoon of distracting noise. Wembley is such a different place on these domestic cup
Manchester United insist season-ticket price increases are ‘fair and reasonable’
Manchester United have defended their decision to raise season-ticket prices despite the club’s faltering on‑field performance. Tickets at Old Trafford will go up by 5%
Arne Slot needs Liverpool to wrest back control after chastening week | Will Unwin
It has been a chastening week for Liverpool after deserved defeats in two competitions, highlighting their flaws amid a season of Premier League domination. Paris
Next stop Champions League: Trippier insists Newcastle will not lose focus
Kieran Trippier has stressed that Newcastle’s Carabao Cup win will not distract the team from their overriding ambition this season of achieving Champions League qualification.
‘Will Freya find a lovely birthday gift for mummy?’: why the Sylvanian Families movie is the anti-Barbie
This Easter, a new movie based on Sylvanian Families will be released into cinemas. If you’ve been keeping up with films based on toys for
Playboi Carti: Music review – the most anticipated rap album this decade was worth the wait
Almost no album in rap history has been quite so anticipated as Music, the third album by Atlanta’s Playboi Carti. The harsh, extreme-bass sound of
Little Simz sues former producer Inflo over unpaid debts
Little Simz is suing her former producer Inflo – AKA Dean Cover of music collective Sault – for allegedly failing to repay a loan of
Jack Draper emerging as a talent that can compete for the biggest prizes
In the joyful aftermath of his triumph in Vienna late last year, the deep satisfaction Jack Draper felt from his rapid progress prompted him to
‘We had even more fights than they show in the film’: how we made Dig! with the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols
Ondi Timoner, director I wanted to make a documentary about 10 bands on the verge of getting signed by record companies, to see what would
Why are the most expensive Netflix movies also the worst?
The full effect of Netflix on the film industry, positive or (more likely) negative, will be reverberating for years to come. But in the short