Category: News

‘Death Star’ towers over Sin City skyline

Article posted by Coliseum, September 24^th, 2020

A National Football League (NFL) team in the gambling mecca Las Vegas (US) was something unimaginable till a few years back. The NFL was most averse to gambling and never allowed its players to enter a casino. In fact, the league avoided gambling like the plague. But, lo and behold, few years later... » Read more

‘Big D’ greeted with record fans’ presence

Article posted by Coliseum, September 24^th, 2020

The professional American football team Dallas Cowboys managed to pull in a crowd of 21,708 to the 80,000-capacity AT&T Stadium in Texas, United States, on September 20th (Sunday) – its smallest attendance for a Dallas regular season home game in 57 years but the biggest attendance so far... » Read more

Club Brugge Stadion hit residents’ roadblock

Article posted by Coliseum, September 24^th, 2020

The Belgian professional football club – Club Brugge’s long-awaited new stadium project – Club Brugge Stadion – has hit the community speedbreaker i.e., where the stadium will sit, the local residents who reside in and around the planned stadium site are sulking over the development... » Read more

Rio for football with fans despite COVID rise

Article posted by Coliseum, September 24^th, 2020

Despite a rise in the seven-day rolling average of new daily deaths in Brazil due to the deadly COVID-19 which continues to batter the world, the City Council of the Brazilian metropolis of Rio de Janeiro is keen on allowing football spectators back into the famous Maracanã Stadium – which sits... » Read more

German Grand Prix likely with spectators

Article posted by Coliseum, September 23^rd, 2020

The Formula 1 German Grand Prix is likely to be held in front of 20,000 spectators on October 11th, 2020, in compliance with health rules in place for the grim COVID-19 scenario, local authorities announced on Monday. The Formula 1 German Grand Prix is a motor race that is held most years since... » Read more

Fans back in Bundesliga fixtures

Article posted by Coliseum, September 23^rd, 2020

For the first time since March, fans graced Italy’s Serie A and Germany’s Bundesliga matches during the weekend after the top-tier football leagues got their 2020-21 seasons underway. In Germany, fans were present at a number of Bundesliga matches after politicians recently reached an agreement... » Read more

COVID ‘killjoy’ in fans’ return to UK events

Article posted by Coliseum, September 23^rd, 2020

Much to the consternation of fans, UK Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove has said that spectators will not be able to return to sports events in England next month as initially planned, with tighter restrictions set to be imposed amid re-emergence of COVID-19 cases in the United Kingdom. The... » Read more