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In discussing his passion for Boxing, Andy Murray explained: “There are similarities with tennis: taking time away from your opponent, neutralising their strengths, finding their weaknesses. When someone watches a tennis match they say stuff like, ‘Why doesn’t he just play …
The 4 Kings and The Big 4: 2 era’s dominated by greatness Read More »
After leaving his native Argentina for Catalonia aged 13 in order to go on receiving the growth hormone treatment he needed to achieve his dream of becoming a professional footballer, Lionel Andres Messi began life in Barcelona youth teams in …
Highs and Lows with La Albiceleste: Lionel Messi’s Argentina story Read More »
Muhammad Ali fought 548 Professional Rounds against 50 different men across a span of 61 fights, 13 countries, four continents and 21 years. 27 of Muhammad’s fights were scheduled for the 15 round Championship distance, so in this blog, I …
squeaky bum time in British English. NOUN. the tense final matches in the race to a league championship, especially from the point of view of the leaders. Word origin circa 2003: coined by Sir Alex Ferguson in an attempt to …
Waiting on the shoulder & squeaky bum time: Ferguson in the title race Read More »
For all of my Football watching life, England have been a disappointment. I was born several days before Football came home with the opening of Euro 96, when England reached the Semi-Finals. They would not reach another for 22 years. …
Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic are the three greatest male tennis players of all time, of which there can be no doubt. In which order you rank those three depends on an almost endless list of variables but …
Since the Club World Cup replaced the Intercontinental Cup in 2005, there has been 14 winners from Europe and just 3 from South America, 2 of those coming in the first two editions. Only Corinthians have broken the monopoly back …
When you talk of English football’s most dominant dynasties, only 2 sides can come to mind. The two Northern Powerhouses of Liverpool and Manchester United. Liverpool ruled the 1970′s and 80′s, and Manchester United “knocked them off their perch” in the …
There was barely a scattering of lukewarm applause from the Santiago Bernabeu faithful behind the goal as Ferlaine Mendy miraculously cleared Grealish’s effort off the line, his desperate last-ditch defending somehow merely brushing against, rather than rebounding in off an …
On Top of Their Perch As Sir Alex Ferguson left the Hawthorns’ turf after one final farewell to the travelling faithful, his 1,500th and final match in charge of Manchester United, the sleeping giant he inherited in 1986 were now …
