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Hayes: I miss being me!0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 17th May 2024
I miss being myself, said Chelsea manager Emma Hayes at an emotion-charged press conference on Friday at the training ground as she got her squad ready for her final club game. Next week she jets out to the States to become the USA Women’s national coach, after first trying to steer her team to victory
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Glass half full 0
- Arts
- 19th April 2024
An absorbing revival of Tennessee Williams’ intense family drama The Glass Menagerie offers some strong performances as director Atri Banerjee tries to modernise a dated story. Kingston’s Rose is the venue (until May 4) of this minimalist touring production which builds in tension and focus through a powerful second half to a curiously flat ending.
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100th-minute winner for Blues 0
- Chelsea First Team, Sport
- 5th April 2024
I woke on Friday morning in a fuzzy cloud, wondering if I’d dreamt that Cole Palmer had netted a winner for Chelsea against Manchester United the night before in the 100th minute of a bizarre ding-dong game. In six decades of going to Stamford Bridge I thought I’d experienced it all; highs of European victories, lows
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Blues reach European semis 0
- Chelsea FC Women, Sport
- 28th March 2024
Chelsea manager Emma Hayes had promised that her team would not be complacent taking a 3-0 lead into Wednesday night’s Champions League clash with Ajax… and she was as good as her word. Despite wholesale personnel changes with half an eye on Easter Sunday’s League Cup final against Arsenal (on BBC2), the Blues stuck to
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Take a punt…0
- Sport
- 13th March 2024
The beautiful varnished boats are works of art in themselves, but Dittons Skiff and Punting Club, in its centenary year, is very much an active sporting enterprise. Based next to The Albany pub in Thames Ditton, its purpose-built clubhouse, gym and boathouse is the envy of other Thames outfits as a new season on the
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Macbeth’s gory reimagining 0
- Arts
- 13th March 2024
Perplexingly stark, but mesmerizingly watchable, Zinnie Harris’s reworking of Shakespeare’s Scottish play, Macbeth (An Undoing), at Kingston’s Rose (until Mar 23) puts the focus on Lady Macbeth (Nicole Cooper) in a gory exploration of guilt, madness and power shifts. By the end the cast are using mops and buckets to scrub blood from the stage,
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