Its been a long time coming, 24 years to be precise, but the England cricket team can say that they have truly arrived on the world stage.
No one, not even the Australian fanatics could deny England this crushing series win, an emphatic result which saw them consign Australia to three innings defeats in a home [...]
So I awake this morning to news that I already feared before I tucked myself in for the night, the Aussies won a test match.
Firstly well done, you cannot take that performance away from them. They out played England in every department and our two innings scores of 187 and 123 were not good enough [...]
Perth is quite simply one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and holds a special place in my heart as it was my home for 12 years. During that time, albeit my later years at high school and university I was always subjected to the ridicule of being a pom, and our poor [...]
I had high hopes of staying up to watch the all important coin toss and the momentous first delivery as England headed down under to enemy territory looking to win the Ashes on Australian soil for the first time in over 20-years.
However the need of sleep beat me and I had to retreat to the [...]
During 2010 there have been a number of high profile sporting scandals. First, there was ‘Bloodgate‘ where players and staff of Harlequins RFC were involved in fabricating an on field blood injury, secondly we’ve seen a whole raft of alleged match fixing and betting scams involving the Pakistani Cricket team, thirdly was the claim that [...]
It was a dour summer of football for any Englishmen, but don’t worry that’s all behind us now! We can all look forward to the new Premiership season which kicks off this weekend.
There is no doubt that it will be another exciting campaign, but who is going to come out on top. Will Manchester United [...]
The Parliament of Catalonia has become the first mainland region in Spain (the Canary Islands banned it in 1991), to move to ban the traditional bull fight on the grounds that it is “barbaric and outdated”.
Is it a cruel sport, is it even a sport?
You decide.
“Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is [...]
David Beckham is a highly filmed and photographed sports star and it will probably not have escaped you that he has a penchant for tattoo’s.
As far as we can tell he has nine:
Beck of neck – winged cross
Lower back – “Brooklyn” 1
Down the spine – guardian angel
Between the shoulders – “Romeo” 2
Left forearm – “Victoria” [...]
Recent research by Dr Costas Karageorghis and Professor Peter Terry, sports psychologists from Brunel University West London and the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, would suggest that exercising whilst listening to music, can have a positive effect on physical performance.
One reason they cite, is that it makes exercising more interesting for people, and [...]
The first time England finally reclaimed the Ashes back after an absence of 18 years was seen by many as equal to England’s 1966 World Cup triumph against Germany.
What followed that event was pure mass hysteria, even those who’d never even played the game let alone watched it were dancing in the streets. An open [...]
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