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The Irish Sun
11-07-2025
- Business
- The Irish Sun
Sheff Wednesday in advanced takeover talks with sports businessman who is Donald Trump ally and US ambassador in Italy
SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY are in advanced talks with an American sports businessman called Tilman Fertitta. The wealthy Yank is also the United States ambassador in Italy after making his fortune with various ventures. Advertisement 4 Sheffield Wednesday are in advanced talks with American sports businessman Tilman Fertitta 4 Wednesday owner Dejphon Chansiri is under significant pressure amid the club's financial crisis Fertitta, 68, has been in talks for weeks but has now made an offer to The cost of the deal is being kept secret and will be subject to the usual due diligence phase. Fertitta may lodge cash to help settle some bills in the short term as the process is bound to take weeks. But he seems a far more credible candidate than many who have chased the Yorkshire club ownership. Advertisement READ MORE IN FOOTBALL Fertitta has a basketball team in Houston, is an ally of Donald Trump and is seen as a leading expert and business and sport. Chansiri says he is willing to sell the club to 'the right individual, or group, to take it forward'. Wednesday, who finished 12th last season, are in dire straits financially. The Owls are currently restricted by a triple transfer embargo due to unpaid player wages and HMRC bills . Advertisement Most read in Football 4 Fertitta is an ally of Donald Trump CASINO SPECIAL - BEST CASINO BONUSES FROM £10 DEPOSITS The club's after six stars reportedly handed in notices , with Chansiri refusing to inject any more cash into the coffers. Manager Advertisement And unpaid Wednesday players are raging after being left out of pocket for several months. Sheffield Wednesday crisis deepens as players free to resign, club legend leaves and staff going months without pay SunSport exclusively revealed how upset stars Wednesday are now 4 Danny Rohl remains absent from the Owls' pre-season amid the ongoing transfer embargo Credit: Getty Advertisement
Scottish Sun
11-07-2025
- Business
- Scottish Sun
Sheff Wednesday in advanced takeover talks with sports businessman who is Donald Trump ally and US ambassador in Italy
Wednesday have been handed three separate embargoes OWLS EYED Sheff Wednesday in advanced takeover talks with sports businessman who is Donald Trump ally and US ambassador in Italy Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY are in advanced talks with an American sports businessman called Tilman Fertitta. The wealthy Yank is also the United States ambassador in Italy after making his fortune with various ventures. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 4 Sheffield Wednesday are in advanced talks with American sports businessman Tilman Fertitta 4 Wednesday owner Dejphon Chansiri is under significant pressure amid the club's financial crisis Fertitta, 68, has been in talks for weeks but has now made an offer to Wednesday owner Dejphon Chansiri. The cost of the deal is being kept secret and will be subject to the usual due diligence phase. Fertitta may lodge cash to help settle some bills in the short term as the process is bound to take weeks. But he seems a far more credible candidate than many who have chased the Yorkshire club ownership. READ MORE IN FOOTBALL TOP GUNN Madueke jetting home from Chelsea's Club World Cup squad just days before final Fertitta has a basketball team in Houston, is an ally of Donald Trump and is seen as a leading expert and business and sport. Chansiri says he is willing to sell the club to 'the right individual, or group, to take it forward'. Wednesday, who finished 12th last season, are in dire straits financially. The Owls are currently restricted by a triple transfer embargo due to unpaid player wages and HMRC bills. 4 Fertitta is an ally of Donald Trump CASINO SPECIAL - BEST CASINO BONUSES FROM £10 DEPOSITS The club's financial crisis deepened after six stars reportedly handed in notices, with Chansiri refusing to inject any more cash into the coffers. Manager Danny Rohl hasn't returned to pre-season training and is seeking a way out of his contract amidst interest from other clubs. And unpaid Wednesday players are raging after being left out of pocket for several months. Sheffield Wednesday crisis deepens as players free to resign, club legend leaves and staff going months without pay SunSport exclusively revealed how upset stars have asked the EFL to send them money. Wednesday are now banned from buying players until 2027.
Spectator
09-07-2025
- Sport
- Spectator
Wine to pass the cricket Test
What to drink while watching cricket? Beer or even Pimm's for the village green, but I think that a Test match on television demands wine. What a series we are having: likely to go down in the record books as a great example of the greatest of games. Cricket incites memories. The current Indian side have a claim to be world champions. In this last Test, they thumped England even though they rested Jasprit Bumrah, probably the best bowler in the world today. But I recall earlier days when they were usually easy victims in England, with one exception: Sunil Gavaskar's match. This was in 1979 at the Oval and Mike Brearley set the Indians 438 to win. That was a nominal target. In reality Skipper Brearley was giving his side plenty of time to bowl India out. Gavaskar had other ideas and the Indian total mounted. In those days, it was still possible to patronise the Indians and I was rather hoping they would win, which they might have done until Gavaskar was out for 221. But I was glad that his side held out for a draw: 429 for 8. I recently tried to explain this to an American who listened, incredulous. 'You are telling me that a match could last for five days and then end in a draw?' 'Yes,' said I, 'and that was the right result, athletically, morally and aesthetically.' 'Well,' replied the Yank, 'even if 1776 had never happened, we would've broken away if you'd made us play cricket.' Returning to the recent excitement, a friend was equipped with Sky TV and also with a lot of Quincy, a thoroughly enjoyable sauvignon blanc from the Loire, where he had just been, returning with a lot of bottles from Saget la Perrière. This was not a house I had heard of: so much the worse for me. I have drunk a lot of Quincy over the years, without ever paying much attention to the label. It is always good. I do not think that it would age well, but there is no need. A pleasant refreshment during a summer's lease; an aperitif which will last for the first course and also, as we found, for dim sum. Anyway, my host said that Saget was one of the better growers in the Loire and I saw no reason to disbelieve him. But we decided that something with more profundity would be needed for the post-mortem and to guide the England selectors in their deliberations for the next match. The girls were growing restive: it was suggested that if we wanted to talk cricket, we should move into the garden. A query was raised: 'What about the claret?' One of our number wanted to discuss an issue at least as interesting as England's bowling line-up for Lord's and this time the ladies were happy to join in: which is the finer wine, Léoville Barton or Langoa Barton? Two magnums, both '09, had been decanted. I recall a previous contest in which I awarded the prize to the Léoville, which made me think of Anthony Barton, that prince of wine-makers, now alas departed. This one was very hard to judge. Both were superb examples of claret, and I found it impossible to analyse their difference. Anthony himself tended to smile sardonically if visitors tried to describe the different layers of scents and taste. He would sometimes puncture pretentiousness by saying: 'Smells of wet dog.' It would be fun to run these two against a Lafite or Latour – they would no doubt be outgunned. On this evening, we ended up by voting and the result was three-all. Again, an aesthetically satisfying draw. This Lucullan feast finished with some 60-year-old tawny port. I always find that tawny is easier on the head than its greater rival, vintage. One can only hope than the England selectors can discover some much-needed inspiration from a good bottle or two.
Spectator
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Spectator
A meeting of misfits: Seascraper, by Benjamin Wood, reviewed
The sea, as you might expect, looms large in Benjamin Wood's finely tuned novella Seascraper. Thomas Flett – one of the most touching protagonists I've encountered in recent years – is barely out of his teens, but he's already battered by toil. His days are spent shanking – gathering shrimps on the beach – with only a horse and cart for company. The setting, gorgeously evoked, is Longferry, a grim coastal town in 1950s Britain. Tom himself appears as if he's been transplanted from the 19th century. The sea, though, brings change, when hidebound past comes crashing against thrusting future. Tom has a stifling oedipal relationship with his mother, who gave birth, aged 16, after an affair with her history teacher. He escapes drudgery by playing the guitar, though hides this from his mum. He is an innocent, yearning for something better, but not knowing how to reach it. Even the bankteller he fancies seems a distant dream. When an American film-maker, Edgar Acheson, offers him a job, it seems like a springboard out. Edgar is a misfit in the materialistic world of cinema, as he only wants to make arty films. In the blossoming friendship between the fast-talking Yank and the taciturn Brit you hope Tom won't get hurt. Relationships between parents and children and our psychological, artistic and intellectual inheritances are among Wood's themes. Tom is haunted by his dead father; Edgar's relationship with his own mother, a novelist whose book he wants to adapt (to win her love), is strained, and he hardly sees his daughter. Tom finds in Edgar the father figure he's always wanted – erudite, articulate and able to subsist on his own talents; and Edgar finds someone who can, perhaps, like him for what he is. There is much about art and its making as Tom struggles to write songs that aren't borrowed 'from a hundred other tunes', and as Edgar powers on with his monomaniacal drive to make a movie. Questions of deception and trickery also abound. Whether we can trust Edgar or not provides a forceful impetus to the plot. Seascraper shimmers, salt-flecked and rippling. It swells with tense, memorable moments, as when Edgar and Tom venture on to the shore at night and meet danger. The long beaches, full of hidden traps and shrouded by fog, are a metaphor for Tom's complex state of mind. In the end, his music guides him out of the mire. You can listen to one of Tom's songs on Wood's website. Look it up. Like this novella, it's poignant, authentic and hopeful.
Daily Mirror
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Oasis fans who missed out on tickets can watch reunion action for free
Noel and Liam Gallagher are finally reuniting on stage after 16 years as their tour kicks off tonight in Cardiff - and even fans at home can get in on the rock action It's a big day for Oasis fans, with Noel and Liam Gallagher taking to the stage together after 16 years for the first stop on the band's highly-anticipated tour. However, those who couldn't get tickets shouldn't Look Back in Anger - you can get involved in the Champagne Supernova from the comfort of your own home. The BBC will be covering all things Oasis ahead of the band's gig at Cardiff's Principality Stadium tonight, covering the build-up to the big moment. Hosted by Jason Mohammad and Tina Daheley, the live stream will be speaking to fans across the city as well as special guests about the historic performance. The livestream will begin at 1pm and will only be available on BBC iPlayer - however, it won't feature any of the gig itself. We'll see the BBC team at the Principality Stadium deliver on-the-ground reports before the gig, while after, the livestream will continue as fans give live reviews and instant reactions. Oasis announced last August that they would be finally reuniting, with fans desperate to get their hands on tickets ever since. Over 74,000 fans will be descending on Cardiff tonight for the huge show - and the first fans have even had their tickets checked in what's become a 24-hour queue. One family revealed on Good Morning Britain today that they spent the equivalent of £22,000 to fly from California to Cardiff for tonight's show - and some viewers couldn't relate. "The old saying, 'a fool and his money are easily parted,' comes to mind," one said, while another wrote: "To the Yank that spent $30,000 for him and his family to see Oasis you are a mug!" Some ticket-holders have been camping out overnight at the Principality Stadium to grab a good spot by the stage - efforts noticed by Liam and Noel. Lorraine's Nick Dixon revealed on the ITV show that some fans were given upgraded tickets by the band after being spotted queueing up at the stadium. "Security rounded up the fans and moved them. We were at first wondering, 'I hope they're not being turfed out, they've got tickets,' but actually security told me that the band spotted them and they've been moved to a different area - a VIP area. They've had a massive upgrade on their tickets which is fantastic for them. They've left here deliriously happy."
