It’s fairly late on a Monday evening, I’ve just finished working on an essay and decide to check the news before heading off to bed. Clicking on the BBC Sport website to see the result of that night’s Premier League fixture, I am greeted by the headline that the corporation has uncovered a number of [...]
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2013 – my review of a wonderful year of sport
Whilst 2012 was dominated by the Olympic Games, British sport didn’t enjoy much success outside of those few weeks of madness in late summer and early autumn. 2013, however, provided us with many more reasons to celebrate. The year included long-awaited victories, new records, surprises, humiliations and the comeback of all comebacks. It’s fair to [...]
Team GB – the greatest ever?
Two royal weddings, a Diamond Jubilee and now the birth of Will and Kate’s child – if that isn’t enough to stir up any feelings of patriotism then I don’t know what is. But is our sport making us feel quite the same way at the moment? There is a strong argument that British sport [...]
Calling all football and rugby fans… Don’t hide away just yet!
As the domestic football and rugby seasons come to a close, there are a number of reasons why you shouldn’t put your televisions into hibernation just yet. There is still plenty of action to come between May and August, including the greatest two-team rivalry in the world, a home nations tour down under and the [...]
The year the man became a legend
2012 saw the emergence of Andy Murray as one of the true contenders in the world of tennis. He shrugged off the image that many British sportsmen and women seem to acquire of being ‘chokers’ in the big matches and proved many, many people wrong. At the start of the year many British tennis fans [...]
