Kiwi Reid crucial to West Ham hopes
New Zealand captain Winston Reid is being tipped to have a huge role to play for Premier League side West Ham this season, with the English club competing for honours[…]
Monthly Archive: July 2015
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NRL Round 21 Preview
By Stephen Gallagher FRIDAY: • Sydney Roosters v Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs – Allianz Stadium 21.45NZT Finally a good Friday night game! Two teams who are going to be chomping at the[…]
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Sporting pics of the week :- 31 July
A week ago Steve Finn was the forgotten man of English cricket. Just another player who showed promise but never really kicked on. Now he’s the toast of Birmingham. Conversely,[…]
Mud Glorious Mud
By Paul Montague A PERSONAL ODE. Winter’s grassy equivalent to summer’s freshly-mown; Awakening an earthly sense all our own; Dirty like dung, not lethal, just brown; Call yourself a Rugby player?[…]
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10 Of The Best Ashes Performances
We’re in the full swing of another exciting series of The Ashes as England host Australia for arguably cricket’s most famous trophy. It may be a tiny and unremarkable urn at[…]
RIP Clive Rice
So farewell then Clive Rice. Arguably the best all-rounder test cricket never really got to know. Gone at 66 after battling a brain tumour; too early. He did get to[…]
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NRL Review. Round 20
By Stephen Gallagher Broncos 34 Titans 0 The Broncos absolutely blitzed the Titans who offered nothing at all. The Broncos were never in doubt of winning this match. They are[…]
Part 2 : As rational as the Sky is Blue
By Bryan Perkins The Tour has come to an end – Froome predictably the winner. Although Quintana tried valiantly up the last Alpine climb up l’Alpe d’Huez to claw back[…]
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Those RWC Cringe Promotions. 2003 & 2007
The 2003 All Blacks were a PR nightmare. Deans and Mitchell did as little media as they could get away with, and Reuben Thorne was not known for his charisma.[…]
Sporting pics of the week :- 24 July
Remember that photo from a few weeks ago of Wayne Rooney with family and some pigs? Well it’s a thing; amongst English footballers anyway. Apparently there is an island in[…]
