New Zealand Produces the Best Cricket Pitches in the World
By James Rodbourn With an aging team and some ordinary recent results, New Zealand test cricket fans could be forgiven for clutching at some straws while looking for positives. Well[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :-11 December
Crap culture starts at the top. Pep knows exactly what he’s doing here. Because that’s totally normal behaviour from Haaland. Remember when we laughed at Wegner’s puffer jackets? A full-on[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :-3 December
Well done Bangladesh; celebrating their firs test victory at home against New Zealand. Galatasaray is always such a welcoming place to visit. The perfect photo of Mikel Arteta. There’s already[…]
Do They Know It’s Cricket Time Version 2.0
By Aiden McLaughlin The Alternative Commentary Collective have today launched their long awaited music video for “Do They Know It’s Cricket Time”. As welcome as it is, here at Sportsfreak,[…]
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F1. Abu Dhabi 2023 Review
By Aiden McLaughlin, Gavin Huet and Chelsea Wintle Driver of the day Aiden – Yuki Tsunoda qualified in P6 and finished in P8, yet he’s my driver of the day – confusing?[…]
Sporting pictures of the Week :-26 November
Travis Head arriving at a T20 series days after the World Cup man of the match performance. You know those days would have been great. Mitch Marsh going alpha following[…]
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Boots and Bombs
Boots and Bombs: How New Zealand football grew up in the 1960s and 70s, by Craig Stephen (2023, ISBN 978-0-473-67266-9). Not many books start with an account of a hairy[…]
F1. Las Vegas 2023 Review
By Dewi Preece, Aiden McLaughlin, Gavin Huet and Chelsea Wintle Driver of the day Dewi – Despite being pipped by Leclerc on the final lap (copy & paste Brazil…) I’m actually going[…]
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9-2 > 10-1
By Rahul Patil Is there anything worse than going through heartbreak? Yes, it’s suffering two heartbreaks within four days. First the blackcaps on Wednesday and then India on Sunday. Next[…]
Sporting pictures of the Week :-19 November
Is this the last time we will see these three in the same photo? Those four yearly photo of South Africa losing a World Cup knockout match. Let’s have[…]
