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Why Bayern could win the Champions League
It was an extremely thrilling and nail-biting start...
Why this year’s FA CUP has been the most exciting
Year after year the FA Cup was able to back its...
Gareth Bale: The Good and Bad
This season sees Tottenham Hotspur 3rd in the Premier League and...
Top 5: Why Rooney will be at Man United next season
Why will Wayne Rooney be moving over to...
Tennis introduces biological passport programme
The International Tennis Foundation (ITF) finally listened to the advice...
The Volvo Commuter Hijack!
Ferguson keeping Quiet
Up until the 58th minute of the second leg of Real Madrid...
Manchester United: Make mine a Double?
The Old Trafford faithful were certainly shaken and not...
Was Benitez right to speak out?
Things just got Better for Spurs
Profile: Danica Patrick
If you’re a female and haven’t heard of NASCAR until now...
Baines and Fellaini getting eyed up
Six Nations Review
Who Will Beat The Drop
With just eleven games left of the premier league season...
TOP 5: Why Alan Shearer is no good for MOTD
For many years Match of the Day has...
Too much hard court
Are agents the scum of the beautiful game?
In recent years a lot has been said on the subject of spending...
One Less Trophy
Premier League Spending Controls
New financial regulations will be introduced into the...
Top 5: Ways to use your Olympic status
Being an Olympian is a huge honour and is...
Oscar Pistorius: From Hero to Zero
The South African is a world renown athlete...
Dog, Cattle, Horse and what else?
What do Spanish cyclists and Tesco burgers have in...
Gooners get diced
Depression after football
The 2012/2013 Premier League Title Race
Manchester United now has a vice like grip on a...
Profile: Rebecca Adlington
As if February weather was not disheartening enough...
Sporting corruption rocks Australia
2013 is a mere 43 days old but has already encapsulated enough...
Top 5: You can’t always say what you want
In the heat of the moment, some sports stars lose their cool...
The Return of Rafa
Match-fixing in the Big Leagues
If ever a scandal was going to shake the global game...
The Dreaded Transfer Deadline Day
Sissoko the New Star of the Toon
Not a week goes by where there’s not more proof the...
Profile: Heather Watson & Laura Robson
Britain’s imprint on the female international tennis scene hasn’t...
Top 5: The difference between staying up and going down
We often see successful sides criticized as being a...
Paris is next for Becks
Over the last few years we’ve become all to familiar with David Beckham...
Chelsea’s Struggles
Aston Villa – Why they are Relegation Candidates
It has been a dismal premier league campaign for...
Was Theo Walcott being too greedy?
After the arsenal paceman recently renewed his Arsenal...
Profile: Li Na
Murray: What are his chances?
Every tennis extremist has their favourite Grand Slam...
Is Bale Worth the 55 million Big Buy?
Real Madrid boss Jose Mouriniho has expressed his...
Ballboygate
Rule Changes in the RFL
Has Murray closed the gap at the top?
Casual sports fans will no doubt claim to be unsurprised...
Top 5: January’s Best
Why Arsenal will make the top 4
Tennis: Aussie Open Final
It's the end of the Australian Open, the first grand slam of the...
Pochettino to Saints
Newcastle in the Red
When Loic Remy chose to join bottom-placed QPR over Newcastle...
Profile: Daniel Sturridge
Torres’ One-way Ticket To Madrid
Has Rafael Benitez improved Chelsea
Roberto Di Matteo won the FA Cup and the holy grail...
Why Pep Guardiola chose Bayern Munich
Bad Decisions Behind The Scenes
Profile: Rickie Lambert
When Southampton were relegated from the Premier League at...
Top 5: Premiership Divers
Unfortunately diving has become a big part in the game of...
Lionel Messi Again
If anyone can present an argument against Lionel Messi being...
Armstrong aims to repair reputation
The Lance Armstrong saga continues to keep us gripped...
What should Man City do about Mario?
Mario Balotelli. You either love him or you hate him...
Australian Open: What to look forward to
It’s the beginning of 2013 which means only one...
Profile: Robin Van Persie
WWE Raw Review
To walk or not to walk?
The New Years Honours
BBC Sports Personality of the Year
If there was a year to be nominated for BBC’s Sports Personality...
Mancini: Tactician or Cheque Book Man
This season has seen Roberto Mancini become more...
WWE: This Week
Should the Premier League introduce netting?
Recent incidents during games in the English Premier League have...
Another Empty Season?
How far will United and the Gunners go
As Manchester City and Chelsea floundered, Manchester United...
Football: Has O’Neill Lost the Plot
Premier League’s Sunderland have run themselves into a bit of...
Why Chelsea must make winning the Club World Cup a high priority?
After an emphatic 3-1 win against Sunderland in the...
Top 5: Where Should Wenger Spend His Money?
An almost fully fit Arsenal team crashed out of the...
Why is Alastair Cook such a great captain?
WWE: The Shield
Why Balotelli Should Leave Man City?
What’s the difference between Manchester City in...
Why Lionel Messi will win the 2012 Ballon d’Or
It’s that time of the year again...
Preview: 2013 PDC World Darts Championship
Adrian “Jackpot” Lewis will start the defence of his...
Chelsea and Abramovich are running out of options
There have been nine managers step through the doors at...
Serena WTA player of the year
Serena Williams has been crowned WTA player of the year for 2012...
Football: 5 reasons on why QPR could go down
After 15 games of the season, QPR sit bottom...
WWE: RAW and SMACKDOWN Review
It was an interesting week in the WWE coming after the...
Raheem Sterling: The Rise of a Young Prodigy
It’s been said time and time again, England aren’t good...
NHL Announces Cancelled Matches
If you're still following the progress of the disastrous...
Top 5: Premiership Partnerships
Beckham to QPR: Deal or No Deal?
End of the Line for Hatton
BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2012 Part 2
On November 27 of 2012, the shortlist for this...
BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2012 Part 1
The preparations have now begun on closing...
WWE: Survivor Series Review
It was that time again on the wrestling calendar and...
F1: Brazilian GP Review
Profile: Michael Clarke
Reasons not to manage Chelsea
Champions League Review
What England Did Wrong
Chelsea’s Managerial Merry-go-Round
The saying goes that in London you are never...
The Chelsea Trio
Luis Suarez – Superstar or Loose cannon?
Since Luis Suarez’s arrival in February 2011, Suarez has...
Why Can’t They Control Their Emotions?
Emmanuel Adebayor went from hero to zero in just 8...
The Albion Bag Fourth
Profile: Nikica Jelavić
Nigel Adkins: Sack or Save?
Just over 10 games into the 2012/13 Premier League season and...
ATP World Finals: Review
AVB – The campaign so far
London Retains ATP World Tour Finals
London’s O2 Arena will hold onto its hosting rights for...
Investing in a Dying Club
Curbing Wage Demands
Olympian of the Year
DVD Review: Chelsea 70s Collection
A collection to spark the interest of any true Chelsea...
Profile: Jessica Ennis
William Shakespeare famously wrote in the ‘Twelfth Night’ “some...
Champions League: How does England fare?
The Champions League is shaping up to be another unpredictable...
Profile: Santi Cazorla
FIFA Player of the year 2012 shortlist
Last week, France football magazine and...
Is Refereeing In Britain Failing?
When has there ever been a week of Premiership football where...
The Race Row goes on
Sporting Event: NFL Stars Come To Town
ATP Tour World Finals: Story so far
The ATP World Finals commenced on Monday at the...
Sporting Event: MLB Dugout At New Era London Soho Store
Baseball is big in the US, but if you...
Formula 1: Paying to Take Part
Football: From Hero to Villain
Off-The-Ball: Dealing with a 0-0 stalemate
A boring game is a big fans worst nightmare...
Being A Hero
Fans Vs Athletes
Profile: Juan Mata
Moto GP: Is Perfection Boring?
Nine time world champion Valentino Rossi has ruffled feathers in...
Top 5: Tennis’ Greatest Rivalries
With Victoria Azarenka doing battle with Serena Williams once again...
Off-The-Ball: Smartphones Spoiled the Spectacle
With the advances of technology, smartphones have...
Football: The PFA Vs. Racism
In Saturday the 20 of October 2012 British football found itself in the...
NFL: Is there growing popularity for American Football in Britain?
American football or as I like to call it the American version of...
Athletics: What now for Radcliffe?
Off-The-Ball: Cut Loose from Sponsors
In the wake of the Lance Armstrong doping scandal it’s...
Profile: Felix Baumgartner
It is quite amusingly surreal to know that an energy drink company has...
NHL: How to solve the lockout?
HowFor those whose experiences with ice hockey are limited to...
Cricket: The Dilemma with KP
Football: Law of the FA
Ashley Cole recently highlighted why it is not only important to...
Football: Racism in Serbia
The England under 21 side successfully qualified last Tuesday for the...
MLB: A-Rod on his way out?
Top 5: Stepping Stone to Stardom
Heather Watson’s triumph in the Japan Open was the first time a...
Off-The-Ball: The Trash Talker
Off-The-Ball: Iron Men
Profile: Audley Harrison
Twelve years after he won gold at the Sydney Olympics...
Lance Armstrong: Cycling Champion Or Cheat?
Lance Armstrong’s defence team have found themselves in another...
Football: Losing Respect
For those who don't know, taking loans are forbidden for...
Football: Moyes the Mathmagician
It’s easy to see why Everton fans are so pleased with...
Football: Airing your Grievances in a Twitter World
Within the past few years, social media has...
Top 5: Premiership Players – September
Top 5 footballers for the month of September!
Profile: Laurent Frayssinous
While the announcement of Laurent Frayssinous as head coach of...
Football: What is the future for Frank Lampard?
What does the future hold for Frank Lampard who...
Cricket: West Indies Clinch ICC World 20/20
Despite the commotion in England from a certain...
Profile: Laura Robson
Laura Robson’s run to the final of this year’s Guangzhou Open made her...
Football: Second Season Syndrome
After a brilliant first season what has happened to Papiss Cisse?
Formula One: Hamilton’s Move to Mercedes GP
F1: Singapore GP Review
Athletics: Great North Run
The athletics season is over and few would have wanted it to...
Football: Reflecting on Hillsborough
Tennis: Revisiting Andy Murray’s Summer
Revisiting Andy Murray's brilliant yet topsy-turvy 2012 summer schedule.
Tennis: Significance of Murray’s US Victory
What is the significance of Andy Murray's victory at the US Open?
Paralympics Round-up #10
The battle for second place in the medal table intensified...
Paralympics Round-up #9
Paralympics Round-up #8
Paralympics Round-up #7
Paralympics Round-up #6
There was impressive medal success from the usual suspects...
Profile: Eden Hazard
Paralympics Round-up #5
It wasn’t quite the golden explosion of the previous day...
Paralympic: GB Events Coming Up 03/09
It’s an evening packed with medal chance...
Paralympics Round-up #4
An emphatic cluster of golds and the biggest daily medal...
Paralympics Round-up #3
Paralympics Round-up #2
Paralympics Round-up #1
Off-The-Ball: What Footballers can Learn from Olympians
Team GB not only won many medals at the Olympics, but they...
Football: Shock Moves
Robin Van Persie’s move from Arsenal to United sent a few...
Profile: Mo Farah
London 2012: Closing Ceremony Review
Seventeen days (or nineteen, if you count...
Olympics Round-up Final
BMX: Making the Jump
With the Olympic madness over and the Paralympics just around the...
Olympics Round-up #18
Olympics Round-up #17
Olympics Round-up #15
Profile: Bradley Wiggins
I had the privilege of seeing Bradley Wiggins zoom past...
Olympics Round-up #11
Olympics Round-up #10
Olympics Round-up #9
Olympics Round-up #8
London 2012: How are GB doing?
After Friday’s spectacular opening ceremony the attention...
Olympics Round-up #6
Olympics Round-up #5
Olympics Round-up #4
Olympics Round-up #3
It took seven years, £11 billion and the manufacture of more...
Olympics Round-up #1
London 2012: What to expect from the Olympics?
It started on 6 July 2005, and now...
Top 5: Summer Transfers
Once again, clubs up and down the country have been busy in the transfer market this summer...
Football: The Feud with Terry and Ferdinand
Two feuds came to an end last week...
Wimbledon: Come on Murray
The road to the Wimbledon finals hasn’t been easy for...
Top Five: Euro 2012 Players
Female Influence?
Tour de France 2012: Story So Far
It’s the beginning of July and that means it must be...
London 2012: Team GB Football
Great Britain's Olympic football squad was last week widely...
London 2012: The Winners and Losers
From ticket scandals to development blunders, the Olympics have been...
Wimbledon: So Far
Euro 2012: Three Lions Down
England suffered heartbreak yet again as the Three Lions endured penalty shoot out misery...
Football: Who benefits from Sky’s TV deal?
Last week, the Premier League sold the domestic...
F1: Infiniti and the Posterboy
Infiniti, the luxury car brand of Nissan, who previously had...
F1: The European Grand Prix
It was a tale of two halves on Sunday as Fernando Alonso...
Profile: Jo-Wilfred Tsonga
There is something of a nearly-man vibe about Jo-Wilfred Tsonga...
Tennis: What to Expect from Wimbledon
The strawberry season is underway, the weather can’t quite make its mind up and the...
London 2012: Olympic Ticket Fraud
Tickets for London 2012 have been notoriously hard to come by...
Off-The-Ball: Winning a Career Grand Slam
Two weeks ago, Maria Sharapova pounced around the red courts of...
Football: What next for Harry Redknapp?
Football continues to surprise, and the sacking of...
Euro 2012: Latest
Football: Did he mean it or was it an accident?
There are some who thought that Danny Welbeck’s deft touch...
Top 5: Euro 2012 Players to Watch
Two years on from South Africa’s Jabulani snooze fest and...
‘Born to Run’: Making your Running Playlist
Your feet seem heavier as they hit the pavement...
Tennis: French Open Review
With Wimbledon and the Olympics just round the corner...
Football: Why England won’t win Euro 2012
England manager Roy Hodgson may hope for a glorious international tournament...
Tennis: The French Open So Far
Paris – and a world of tennis fans have been absorbing the pinnacle of the clay-court season...
Boxing: Haye V Chisora
Football: Champions of Europe
Before last Saturday’s Champions league Final, the match between...
Off-The-Ball: Winning the title in the last 60 seconds
And so the Premier League season came down to 60 seconds of pure sporting theatre...
Football: Premier League Review
In the nineteen seasons previous there had been four champions of England...
Top 5: Surprise Packages – Part 2
Here is the conclusion of our Top 5 Surprise Packages:
Top 5: Surprise Packages – Part 1
Timothy Poole looks at some of the recent surprise goings on in the world of sport.
Profile: Floyd Mayweather
The best pound-for-pound boxer in the world; the best boxer the world has ever seen?
Off-The-Ball: Revisiting Chelsea’s Historic Victory
When the draw for the quarter-finals and semi-finals for the UEFA Champions League...
Football: England hire Roy
After months of journalists and fans pondering, speculating, and anxiety, over who would fill the England manager...
Football: Manchester Derby sees City in good Kompany
Strong leadership wins titles and on Monday night, Manchester City captain...
Tennis: Do the British really make good pundits?
In a country with no Grand Slam winner (male or female) since the 1970s...
Football: Here Cometh the Toon Army
As the Premier League season draws to a close, the biggest and most unlikely success...
F1: The Bahrain Grand Prix
In the desert of Bahrain, a political sandstorm has been brewing...
Ronaldo v Messi: A Record-breaking Season
At a time of financial hysteria, mass political corruption and a seeming shift toward the worse of humanity’s moral compass...
Football: PFA Player of the Year Nominees
As the season comes to a close the football award season kicks into gear with...
Snapshot: do the bigger clubs get the decisions?
As Ashley Young unceremoniously plunged to the turf against QPR last Sunday...
Top 5: Summer Sporting Events
Many might consider the summer of 2012 as the apotheosis...
Profile: Stilian Petrov
Coming so soon after Fabrice Muamba’s collapse, the world of football...
Football: Who is the man for England?
The wait for the appointment of the next England manager continues...
Profile: Fabrice Muamba
The game between Tottenham Hotspur and Bolton a few weeks ago reminded supporters around the UK of a simple truth that...
Off-The-Ball: A Committed Football Fan
Recent events in football—despite their dark nature—have managed to unite all supporters under one roof.
F1: Australian GP
With the smoke having cleared and the teams regrouping, collecting data and planning ahead it is time to...
Football: The Title Race – Part 2
The other side of the title race involves Manchester city and now I will look at their potential as Premier League title
Football: The Title Race – Part 1
When Sir Alex Ferguson set out to overhaul Liverpool’s record of 18 league titles, few would have considered the outcome to be
Football: Chelsea’s Managerial Mess
Profile: Robin Van Persie
Arsenal threatened to pull off the greatest comeback in...
Profile: Victoria Azarenka
Current World No.1 and reigning Australian Open champion, Victoria Azarenka’s rise to the...
F1: The New Season – Part 3
Football: Homophobia in the game
In the news, Federico Macheda became the latest professional footballer to be fined by the authorities for homophobic language on Twitter.
F1: The New Season – Part 2
F1: The New Season – Part 1
With less than a week to go before the 2012 F1 season gets underway in Australia it is time to have a
Football: Gary Speed RIP
Pin It The Welsh nation stood alongside Gary Speed’s family, friends and former colleagues last night to play tribute to their national
Off-The-Ball: What were they thinking?
The main talking point in the sports pages last week was the extraordinary out-of-ring...
Football: Dealing with Administration – Part 2
Again, a case of overspending has cased the downfall of one of Britain’s biggest...
Football: Dealing with Administration – Part 1
The announcement that Rangers had gone into administration was sure...
Top 5: Fighting Movies
Warrior is out this week and if you didn’t see it in cinemas you...
Profile: Derek Chisora & David Haye – Part 2
I believe this is an isolated incident for Haye. He was desperate to...
Profile: Derek Chisora & David Haye – Part 1
British boxing is in turmoil this week after the needless antics of former...
Football: Morgan takes the Mick
On 13 February, the Premier League saw its third managerial victim of the...
Off-The-Ball: Celebrity Following
Football teams are global brands; cults that are followed by millions in every walk...
Football: Can a Handshake Cure Racism?
In two separate interviews in November last year, FIFA President Sepp Blatter...
Top 5: Innovative Models
The importance of innovative models or ideas for every sport cannot be undermined. It is important for...
Profile: Craig Fallon
Craig Fallon, the former World and European Judo champion, retired last week just five months before his...
Football: Terry, Capello and the Mess
It began on the 23rd of October when John Terry was alleged to have racially abused...
Football: January Transfer Window
In what has been a relatively dull month as far as Premier League spending sprees and big...
London 2012: Beckham’s Olympic Goal
David Beckham has had to make a number of difficult decisions over the last few weeks.
Football: The Ginger Ninja
At the ripe old age of 37, Paul Scholes decided to don his boots once again and come out of...
Off-The-Ball: Sport’s Nice Guys – Part 2
Golf’s Darren Clarke is another sporting ambassador...
Off-The-Ball: Sport’s Nice Guys – Part 1
In the wake of arguably the greatest Australian Open final in history, it is...
Superbowl XLVI: Review
Coming to you live from Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis! The biggest, most unbelievable...
Profile: Kenny Dalglish
"Brought in to stabilise the club" were the words used by Liverpool owner John Henry when Dalglish...
Tennis: Murray and the Aussie Open
With a grand total of five out of six Brits eliminated on Day One of the Australian Open, British hopes...
Cricket: England come back Down to Earth
When you’re the best test Cricket side in the world, everyone is looking to dethrone you...
F1: Who will lead Williams?
The 2011 season was a torrid one for the Williams team, they never had a fast enough...
Football: Joey Barton – The Mouthpiece
Six months after he was allowed to leave Newcastle on a free, and now during a...
Top 5: Sport’s Flops
After the nightmare for English women’s tennis in the Australian Open, where all...
Off-The-Ball: Senna
I fear that the biggest danger for the Senna documentary is that people will not give it a chance.
Football: Return of the Golden Oldies
In the last two weeks Paul Scholes and Thierry Henry made their competitive returns for...
Preview: Australian Open – Part Two
In the women’s draw, the WTA tour has seen 12 different Grand Slam winners over the past decade...
Preview: Australian Open – Part One
Fact: only in three of 24 Grand Slams since 2004 have we had a male champion...
Winter Round-Up
In the midst of January transfers talks, potential targets and the spending power...
Profile: Wayne Rooney
Sir Alex Ferguson said recently that Wayne Rooney attracts media attention in a similar manner that...
Boxing: Khan V The Mystery Man
Amir Khan the carrier of the hope of a nation. A young fighter who promised so much...
Top 5: Sporting Comebacks
In recent days we’ve seen two great footballers return to English football...
Stars of 2011: Novak Djokovic
If you’re stuck on a subject, not knowing where or how to start then the...
Sinners of 2011: Carlos Tevez
As focus once again turns to Carlos Tevez in this...
Stars of 2011: Jenson Button
Jenson Button has been in Formula 1 racing for a long time, he made his...
2011 Review: Top 10 Sporting Moments Part 2
Here is the top 5 sporting moments of 2011.
2011 Review: Top 10 Sporting Moments – Part 1
Here are top 10 sporting moments of 2011...
Stars of 2011: Robin Van Persie
With twenty nine goals in twenty eight games, Robin Van Persie has made his...
Stars of 2011: Barcelona FC
The achievements of Barcelona in 2011 mean that we may have to look at this team in a...
Sinners of 2011: Sepp Blatter
2011 has been a year of sporting prowess; but such is human nature that every...
2011 Review: Top Sporting Partnerships
2011 was a year to savour. The world witnessed the dominance of...
Tennis: British Tennis in the dump
Much like the case of other sports in this country, there is a...
Football: Surviving on limited funds
Modern-day football is a financial beast unlike anything most supporters have seen.
Top 5: Biggest Dilemmas in 2011
Here are the biggest sporting dilemmas in 2011...
Profile: Fernando Torres
Here’s the scenario: you are playing FIFA 12; you are Chelsea. You are deciding which strike force...
Rugby: Hansen new New Zealand Boss
As the New Zealand Herald puts it, ‘Keeping an open mind was the key to...
Off-The-Ball: What’s a Real Sport?
I’m not very good at snooker, I find it hard to even place the cue stick right, let alone hit...
Top 5: Unexpected Sporting Exits in 2011 – Part 2
The conclusion of the Top 5 unexpected sporting exits!
F1: Assembling Lotus Renault GP
The 2011 F1 season was really dominated by one team – Red Bull – with Mclaren and...
Top 5: Unexpected Sporting Exits in 2011 Part 1
On Wednesday night last week the footballing world was sent into shock after...
Profile: Phil Jones
Manchester United may well have been sent crashing out of Europe last week, but...
Football: Neville vs Villas-Boas
Gary Neville achieved everything during his glittering playing career. Holding down a regular place in...
London 2012: GB Football team?
There has been a lot of consternation over the inclusion of a Great British football team in next summer’s...
Top 5: Unexpected Managerial Appointments – Part 2
Here is the final 3 unexpected managerial appointments.
BBC Sports Personality of the year: Nominees – Part 2
This year’s top ten is characterised by a huge sporting diversity. To the nation’s shock horror, there are no...
BBC Sports Personality of the year: Nominees – Part 1
It’s that time of the year again - the time for glamour, prestige and celebration. The 22nd of December will see...
Top 5: Unexpected Managerial Appointments – Part 1
In light of Sunderland’s recent acquiring of Martin O‘Neil to succeed Steve Bruce as manager, it is interesting to look back at...
Profile: Scott Parker
Despite the muffled moans that whisper Robin Van Persie’s name there is little doubt in my mind that...
Football: Dark Clouds hang over Part 2
When one's life has revolved around a sport for so long, the prospect of punditry or retirement must...
Football: Dark Clouds hang over Part 1
With the recent death of former footballer and Wale's manager Gary Speed, we have been...
Off-The-Ball: A Question of Sport Vs. A League of Their Own
There aren’t many days when I’d think about the BBC TV show A Question of Sport but when handed this...
Football: Time running out for Villas Boas?
Under the unnerving gaze of constant media speculation, Andre Villas Boas’s fledgling Chelsea career looks...
Top 5: Sport Moguls Part 2
Top 5: Sport Moguls – Part 1
In recent years, rich businessmen have taken to investing in sports teams and...
Profile: David Beckham – Part 2
Yet never far from controversy, Beckham’s relationship with United manager Alex Ferguson began...
Profile: David Beckham – Part 1
In a week in which ‘Becks’ won his first title for LA Galaxy, speculation has...
Obituary: Gary Speed
On Sunday the footballing world stopped. The game we all love ceased to matter.
Goal-line Technology: Yay or Nay?
With the FA hinting at the possible introduction of goal-line technology to the Premier League as early as...
Football: Foreign Influence in the Big League
With the excitement and ever-increasing trend of foreign...
Off-The-Ball: Evolution of Virtual Soccer Part 2
Nothing could be sweeter than being elevated to the top of the gaming...
Off-The-Ball: Evolution of Virtual Soccer – Part 1
Yes! A new high score! Beat you, mate! Sorry I am getting carried away…just been...
Tennis: ATP World Finals
In a grand opening ceremony Roger Federer strode onto the court with fans cheering and...
Off-The-Ball: Signs of a Petrolhead
Flashes of irritation at non-believers: a true devotee will feel a real...
Top 5 Sports Movies – Part 2
Here is the completion of our Top 5 Sports movies...
Top 5 Sports Movies – Part 1
As the upcoming release of the widely-tipped Oscar hopeful, Moneyball, sees Brad Pitt play the...
Cricket: Tendulkar Inspires Hope
It seems somewhat odd, disconcerting even, to be writing an article celebrating any...
Profile: Basil D’Oliveira
There are days on the sporting agenda that transcend the frivolous and...
Off-The-Ball: Are Autobiographies a Good Idea?
With the arrival of Twitter, a medium through which the modern day athlete can...
Football: Calls for Blatter’s Resignation
FIFA president Sepp Blatter has apologised after claiming racism on the...
The Weekly Round-up
The big story of the week: I found out I was living in a cuckoo land, where...
Off-The-Ball: Creating the Fortress
What makes a sports stadium a modern day fortress? We have that...
F1: Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Review
The Abu Dhabi grand prix started predictably – Vettel stole pole position in the...
Top 5: Sports Star to TV Personality
It seems to be a natural progression – have a successful sports career and...
Profile: Smokin’ Joe Frazier
The world continues to pay tribute to the former heavyweight boxing...
Tennis: A Feminine Void
In 1977, a certain Virginia Wade triumphed at Wimbledon, defeating a certain Sue Barker in the...
The Weekly Round-up
I have to confess something: I get really bored of International games, in fact I don’t...
Off-The-Ball: Sport’s Lamest Excuses
We’ve all had that feeling where we couldn’t be bothered to...
NHL: Ice Hockey or Fist Fight? Part 2
Bone-crunching body checks, open-ice collisions and, of course, the referee’s willingness...
NHL: Ice Hockey or Fist Fight? Part 1
For the neutral viewer it can become quite obvious why the sport of ice hockey is perceived as...
Top 5: Sporting Scandals Part 2
F1: Signs of a Reckless Driver
Just what has been going on with Lewis Hamilton this season? With the...
Top 5: Sporting Scandals Part 1
As Pakistani cricketers Mohammed Asif, Mohammad Amir and Salman Butt find...
Off-The-Ball: Are Footballers Morons?
With the multitude of tabloid headlines, shocking scandals and...
Profile: Sir Alex Ferguson
There are perhaps ever fewer days in the stylish, sleek and ruthless phenomenon of...
Football: Magpies March On
Who would have thought, a year after promotion back into the top-flight...
The Weekly Round-up
In the same week that I finally got round to seeing Quentin Tarantino’s epic crime...
Off-The-Ball: Sport’s Power Couples
Sporting couples represent what us normal people would love to be: rich, young and...
F1: Indian GP Round-up
The first ever Indian Grand Prix contained all of the pomp and circumstance of a historic...
Profile: Robin Van Persie
Every year, as the enigma that is the Premier League unfolds to reveal the...
Top 5: Champions League Hit-men
Football this season is completely unpredictable. Not only is there...
Football: Champions League Preview
This week's Champions League fixtures prove to be interesting match-ups, all hugely...
Football: Arsenal on the rocks
As Arsenal lined up in the Stade Valdedrome last Wednesday night for...
Profile: Wheldon and Simoncelli
In motorsport it is easy to get taken up by the spectacle, the sport and...
Tennis: Murray clinches No.3
It’s been a frustrating year for Andy Murray, he hasn’t been able to...
Top 5: England One Day Cricketers
In the hazy and somewhat disappointing light of day it is time to consider the...
Rugby: The scrum-half
All Blacks are Rugby Kings
And so the story was written, that in a land far far away, the...
Profile: Leo Messi
Glancing at Lionel Messi’s list of achievements and you’ll soon...
RWC Semi-Finals Round-up Part 2
The All Blacks overcame their bitter rivals Australia to reach the Rugby...
RWC Semi-Finals Round-up Part 1
In the end inexperience, or what some might say is known as the ‘Napoleon Complex’, can be...
Premier League round-up
There are always those unfortunate days on the football calendar which can...
Top 5 F1 Drivers
Sebastian Vettel has raced away (quite literally) with the F1 Driver’s Championship. Such...
Rest of the Rugby World Cup Round-up
The Australia v South Africa match was not the classic I...
Karl Henry deserves more respect
It’s been a grim start to the season for Wolverhampton Wanderers midfield...
I think it’s time to go now…
If you have ever had the exhilarating pleasure of bungee jumping, as some of...
Player Profile: David Silva
Silva reduces football down to its essence giving credence to why football is often...
Ferdinand’s Future in Doubt
Former England captain Rio Ferdinand has been left out of the England squad to play Montenegro in...
Rugby World Cup Marches On
So it’s goodbye to those plucky minnows who have fought hard, and with a...
England Scrape Past Scotland into the Quarter Finals
England playing Scotland is the oldest rivalry in...
Lampard No Longer Mr Chelsea?
Last week according to some media outlets, Frank Lampard stormed off down the...
England maintains Perennial Unpredictability
As sure as the autumnal breeze that sweeps past as September comes to a close is...
Disappointment drives the Troupe
It is remarkable how well English sport matches the...
Fernando Torres: Coming out?
Fernando Torres seemed to come out of the game against Manchester United this past...
Young Reds Impress
Surrey shatter Somerset’s cup hopes
Traditionally one of the major players in English cricket, Surrey put Somerset to the...
Premier Bliss
England’s Rain Dance secures Victory
As dawn broke on Monday, England’s cricket team awoke...
Grand Prix Mayhem at Monza
In the Formula 1 season, the Italian grand prix at Monza is always a...
England Stumble Towards Euro 2012
Although England took six points from their latest qualifiers against...
Sebastian Vettel – Young Gun Old Victor Part 2
The 2010 season is the most indicative of Vettel’s performance and...
Sebastian Vettel – Young Gun Old Victor Part 1
In two blistering years as Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel has transformed himself from...
The Champions League Returns
32 teams start the 2011/2012 UEFA Champions League campaign, hoping to...
The Final Grand Slam of 2011 Part 2
What adds more uncertainty in the Women’s singles will be the crop of...
The Final Grand Slam of 2011 Part 1
In what has been a competitive year in the men and women’s tour, the tennis season heads to...
Arsene Wenger’s Position at AFC Part 2
Admittedly, Wenger doesn’t do much to appease the restlessness of fans. Trying to...
Arsene Wenger’s Position at AFC Part 1
For the first time in 15 years, Arsene Wenger finds his position as Arsenal manager seemingly...
English Test Cricket: The best in the world
English test cricket is, once again, the best in...
Preview: Silva Vs Okami
This Saturday the UFC returns to Brazil after thirteen years, with arguably one of...
Let the Title Race commence
Rejoice! Football is back! The summer of endless speculation is dying down as...
Premier League Season Gets Underway
The 2011-2012 Barclays Premier league season is under way with Manchester City, Bolton...
Adrenaline Seekers Turn To Horse Power
This year’s X-games may have passed by in a haze of skateboards and exhaust fumes, but those...
England Vs India: Third Test Review
England demolished India in the third test to take over from the visitors as...
Premier League Returns with Rising Ticket Prices
It seems Premier League clubs are increasingly losing touch with their fans as...
UFC 133, Part 3
UFC 133, Part 2
UFC 133, Part 1
UFC:133, was a really good night of fights that would have left...
England Fixture Off as London Burns
London burns. The capital is shaken. The people of this great city are...
Mike Modano – retire or resume?
Mike Modano spent a pretty rough season in Detroit following his...
London 2012 – Yes or No?
If, by any chance, you’ve neglected to listen to the radio, read the...
England Vs India: Second Test Review
Tim Bresnan displayed a master class with bat and ball to...
The Complete Martial Art
Despite the Ultimate Fighting Champion being a pay-per-view giant, and...
Champagne Win for Button in Hungary
Sport has a brilliant way of creating dramatic coincidence which...
The Tevez Transfer Saga
Will he go or will he stay? It seems the focus has temporarily shifted to...
Say Goodbye To Live Formula 1
To read reports and hear interviews you could be excused for thinking that...
Gore is Stereo Pro!
Ben Gore has officially been promoted. The Florida native has achieved the skateboarder’s...
From Hogwarts To Harvard: The Rise of ‘Muggle Quidditch’
From the depths of JK Rowling’s imagination to the playing fields of America, Quidditch has...
England V India: First Test Review
England celebrated victory in the first test against...
It’s Not Fair!
As I was watching the 50-meter butterfly final at the World Swimming Championships in...
Hamilton Victorious in Germany
The theme of Sunday's German Grand Prix was uncertainty but it was...
Khan Unifies Light Welterweight Belts
As Amir Khan sauntered into the Las Vegas ring for...
Do Test Cricket Fans Dream of Electric Sun?
Last weekend saw England put on a brilliant display for the Lords faithful as both the...
Who said “Old Guns” can’t putt it?
Golf is a sport like no other. For some it ruins a nice walk whereas for...
Arsenal’s Summer Dilemma
It seems Arsenal fans are forever hearing the same tune, that same hit playing out every...
The Never Ending Transfer Story
Between the end of the Premier League season and the beginning of the next, the...
Japan Overcomes USA To Capture 2011 Women’s World Cup
The references to 1999 hung dauntingly over the USA team as they entered last...
Webber vs Red Bull
Formula One is an ultra-competitive sport; there is competition between designers...
The Rise of American Football in Britain
Every year there is a little dose of America at Wembley and the brash, money...
Lionhearts v Wolfhounds
Following an electrifying victory against Scotland in June, England Lionhearts will be...
Fernando Alonso takes Silverstone
What better place to win your first race of 2011 than at the home of British motorsport, Silverstone...
Haye Considers Future
After losing to Wladimir Klitschko in the highly anticipated heavyweight unification clash David Haye will need to...
One Day at the All England Club
Everyone on the underground was going to Wimbledon. Perhaps it would have been wiser to take the over ground or...
Nadal ends Murray
Another year goes by and we have another Wimbledon final without a British player competing in it. As expected...
Villas-Boas named Manager of Chelsea
This week Chelsea announced the appointment of their new manager Andre Villas-Boas, after the blues paid his former club...
Manchester United snap up Young
Winger Ashley Young has signed for Manchester United from Aston Villa for around £17m after...
The Wimbledon Championships Return!
Strawberries and fresh cream priced at £2.25. The green green grass where I like to bathe in the...
Lewis Hamliton apologises for Race Incident
Lewis Hamilton is focused on Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix and thinks he can put the “Ali G” controversy...
Liverpool on the Verge of Jordan Henderson
The transfer window is in full swing and this morning it was announced Liverpool had agreed a deal with...
Rafael Nadal wins in Paris, again
The Spaniard didn’t give much chance to his rival, Roger Federer, at the French Open on Sunday. The 5th time...
Preview: Champions League Final
On the eve of the biggest game in the club football calendar, we have to ponder how Sir Alex Ferguson's...
FIFA: Bribery Allegations
FIFA has been put under increasing pressure to investigate bribery claims...
Review: The Pool
As we drove through the industrial sector of East London it dawned on me that...
Preview: Nike – The Pool
Nike has done something pretty amazing... a project that transforms an ex-local...
Europe’s biggest waste Plant
North London Waste Authority (NLWA) is planning to build Europe's biggest waste plant near...
FA Cup Final Ticket Prices Soar
The world is still recovering from a financial crisis and it seems the only solution governments, organizations...
Football Talents of the Future
As the long countdown to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil begins, I’ll be taking a look at...