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Part of the excitement of following football is the rivalries between clubs. When your team meets a side with which it has a score to settle, then tensions are high, and victory, if it comes, is all the sweeter. Of course, club rivalries can also spill over into ugly scenes of violence between supporters, as was the case during the heyday of football hooliganism in the 1970s and 1980s. This regrettable tendency has not entirely disappeared, but today, many of...

Leicester City's captain Wes Morgan has signed a lucrative sponsorship deal with rum brand Captain Morgan, with several interesting clauses in the contract. According to the terms, Morgan can go into a bar, turn to face everyone in there, spread his arms, and shout "There's only one Captain Morgan!" and then all eligible drinkers will be entitled to the free drink. Morgan must also dress up as the Captain, in a costume of the pirate on the front of the rum bottles,...

Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter & David de Winter - TLE Sports Editor @TLE_Sport  @rgdewinter  @davidjdewinter The TLE Sports Podcast returns with Sports Editor David de Winter and Richard de Winter.  In this episode they discuss England's woes in India, Chelsea's current exceptional form, Manchester City's current blip, England Rugby's stellar 2016, and the ongoing Russian doping scandal.

On 27th March 2002 ITV Digital went bust. Despite the best efforts of Johnny Vegas and his monkey the first ever TV service to air on a digital terrestrial television network went under, with the owners blaming the cost of football league rights as one of the principal reasons for the broadcaster’s failure. The fallout of the collapse had wide-reaching ramifications. ITV Digital had bid a staggering £315 million for three years exclusive rights of Championship, League One and League...

Sport News 24/7 It would take someone earning the average UK salary of £27,600 more than three-and-a-half years to earn what Harry Kane earns in a week at Tottenham Hotspur after the England striker recently became the highest paid player in the club’s long history, putting pen to paper on a cool £100,000 per week deal that sees him contracted at White Hart Lane until 2022. Such hiked-up wages are, of course, not exclusive to Spurs. Collectively, the Premier League...

Sport News 24/7 We’re through the first week of December and Leeds United still have the same manager at the helm as they did in August – that tells you all you need to know about how well Leeds are faring under Garry Monk. The form of the side at Elland Road in recent years has been appalling, but pride is returning along with the buzz around the old stadium. It’s not quite witnessing a Revie-esque revival just yet, but...

Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter - TLE Sports Columnist @rgdewinter  @TLE_Sport I am just about of the generation that still believes in the so-called ‘magic of the cup.’  In my extreme youth, Cup Final Day was an event, one of few live football matches on the TV.  I still remember the anticipation of the build-up, the route to the final montages, and my bemusement at people crying during the singing of Abide With Me (it was only a hymn)....

Sport News 24/7 Every now and then you see a moment of brilliance on a sporting field. Temba Bavuma’s run out of Dave Warner, Ben Stokes’s catch(es), that Tony Yeboah goal against Liverpool… and Wimbledon, Ayrton Senna’s lap of Donnington in 1993. I could go on, but everyone has seen those special moments. Conversely, we see those moments when everything goes to pot – Chris Read ducking into a Chris Cairns yorker, Gareth Southgate’s penalty at Euro 96, Alastair Cook’s...

TheLondonEconomic.com Sport brings you Flats and Shanks Rugby Review. This week, the lads chat about life with Brian O’Driscoll and he ends up feeling weird about Shanks’ invite to meet up in Dubai.  So awks... http://rss.acast.com/flatsandshanks/episode13-brianodriscollandhislife/media.mp3 David Flatman and Tom Shanklin are two former professional rugby players. Having been flatmates while playing at Saracens, their friendship endured, and now they’d like to share with you bunches of views and thoughts and jokes. Flats and Shanks David Luke Flatman or 'Flats' is a...