“It is the story of a vast superiority, sacrificed through stupidity, shortsightedness, and wanton insularity. It is a story of shamefully wasted talent, extraordinary complacency, and infinite self-deception.”

Pope Francis is, or rather was, well known as a football man and, in particular, as a committed supporter of the San Lorenzo club in his native Argentina, so it rather came as a shock when he recently confessed that he had never seen his fellow countryman Lionel Messi in action.

THERE’S only so many times you can paper over the cracks before the walls start collapsing under the weight.

Hurricane Flossie strengthened to a Category 4 storm today as it spun more than a 1,000 miles south of Hawaii.

A newspaper which called Sir Alan Sugar miserly in his stewardship of Tottenham Hotspur FC was an honestly expressed view based on fact, the High Court has heard.