Emdad Rahman On this side of the border, The Quality Street Gang may have a more notorious reputation – a band of criminals who operated in Manchester and who may or may not have locked horns with the Kray twins. However, ...
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Singh wonder strike ensures home point for Sporting
Sporting Bengal United 1-1 Takeley FC Emdad Rahman Honours were even after 90 minutes as Sporting Bengal United came back from a goal down to level matters in the latest Essex Senior Football League Premier Division clash at Mile End ...
Read More »Liverpool FC European Cup legends to attend Luton tour
Emdad Rahman Luton will be transformed into a footballing hotspot with a whole host of former Liverpool stars set to descend on the town. After selling out in Bristol and Liverpool, this is the third leg of the Match Day Show ...
Read More »Visiting La Scala Del Calcio – San Siro Stadium
Emdad Rahman The famous city may host fashion royalty, but for me a weekend trip to Milan means anything but shopping for designer clothes. Honestly, I’d rather watch paint peel. Two days away from London, and I planned to visit ...
Read More »Celtic’s Smiler – the Neilly Mochan story
Emdad Rahman Smiler Mochan is a Celtic legend whose name doesn’t crop up as much as it needs to, but I have seen his portrait hanging at Celtic Park. Celtic Football Club is quite simply the stuff dreams are made ...
Read More »Celtic Park: a legend built by immigrants
Emdad Rahman A club started off by Aindreas Ó Céirín, better known as Brother Walfrid, to provide food and warmth to starving street children has now become one of the most famous names in world football. In 1888, Brother Walfrid came up ...
Read More »Free fun for Tower Hamlets youngsters
As we head towards the end of the holidays, make the most of the mild spell to make sure your junior citizens get out and about instead of sitting indoors moping about. All young people in the borough aged 8-19 ...
Read More »Biggs backs Lutfur Rahman’s footie comp
Thanks to Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s initiative to introduce a “Mayor’s Cup” football competition, grants to community football groups are now available. And just before Xmas John “two jobs” Biggs found time in his busy schedule holding down two full-time jobs ...
Read More »Theatre Royal Stratford East announces 2016 programme
While the curtain goes up each night on this year’s Panto, Robin Hood, staff at East London’s Theatre Royal have found a moment to present their programme for next year. It’s also been announced that the theatre achieved 86% capacity ...
Read More »We are not the “enemy within”!
Two Muslim men sit on a train, minding their own business. A white fellow passenger starts abusing them. “I’ll defeat you,” he says, “whatever it takes.” He goes on. “Jihad bastards” – and a few more similar phrases. “Bring it ...
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