Our clubs are playthings of US wealth funds and billionaire Arabs who don’t care, says ex-Chelsea owner Ken Bates

[ad_1] FEW people played a greater role than Ken Bates in revolutionising and globalising English football. During his controversial 21-year reign as chairman, Chelsea fielded England’s first all-foreign starting XI, appointed a string of overseas managers and eventually sold to Roman Abramovich — the first foreigner to buy a Premier League club. 4 Ken Bates […]

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom visits the Democratic Republic of the Congo as violence against children reaching ‘staggering scale’

[ad_1] UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom visited the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for the first time this week, as escalating violence and mass displacement in the eastern part of the country pushes the number of grave violations against children towards a peak. “The staggering scale of the conflict in eastern DRC, the horrific […]

Is This the New Direction ‘Star Wars’ Needs?

[ad_1] Star Wars is charting a new course with the Disney+ series The Acolyte, which is set 100 years before the events of the Star Wars prequels, and features a group of Jedi we’ve never met onscreen before investigating a series of murders during a period where they stand totally unopposed by the Sith. The Acolyte is something different for Star […]