The manager of Manchester City, Pep Guardiola once said: “That’s the beauty of sport. Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry.”Manchester City bids a fond farewell to 93-year-old Rose Woolrich, who for 50 years has been the matriarch of “Rose’s Photographer’s Room”. When she hangs up her teapot at the end of this season there will not be a dry eye in the stadium. There were tears for Arsenal and joy for Paris Saint-Germain in the second leg of of their Champions League semi-final in Paris, and there was much laughter when Harpenden Town FC won the West Hertforshire FA St Mary’s Challenge Cup, a prestigious 137 year-old competition first played in 1888 — almost as long as long as Rose has been at Manchester

Source: The Times May 13, 2025 08:31 UTC