Looking Back: Barcelona
By Scott Maclean “And Solskjær has won it!!!” Twenty-one years on, those five words from commentator Clive Tyldesley still send a shiver for Manchester United fans even today. The 1999[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 22 May
Much has been made during the global pandemic of people’s backgrounds when doing Zoom calls. Pretty hard to beat Merv Hughes’s set-up. Welcome back to training / playing corner. Ardie[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 13 May
Sport is almost back, with fans with a difference. Borussia Mönchengladbach fans coughing up to be part of this. That’s what true fans look like. Let’s not overlook the NC[…]
Looking Back – 2019 UEFA Champions League semifinals
By Ryan Nixon “Just pump sport into my veins.” On occasion, the unscripted nature of sport can deliver an adrenaline surge like no other. It sets the heart galloping, while[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 29 April
Your 2020 big name football signing. Alphonso Davies extending his Bayern Munich contract; under guidelines running on time. There is some strange photo shopping thing going on where current NBA[…]
All about (saving) the money…
By Andrew McGoff As the COVID-19 pandemic went global, our favourite sporting codes slowly started to suspend their leagues. Whilst sport is considered a religion to some, or more important[…]
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Looking Back: Fergie Time
By Aiden McLaughlin 10th April 1993, Old Trafford. Sheffield Wednesday were the visitors for a 3pm Easter Saturday fixture. Back then, the demands of live television didn’t dominate the fixture[…]
Lockdown Recommendations: Read
A Lucky Man, Keith Quinn – @pm_spotter My kind old dad sent it to me when I was working in Japan around 2000/2001, and it’s brilliant. And it’s Kiwi too.[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 5 April
This is Armstrong Stadium in Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre. Other parts of the facility will become a hospital. This stadium is a food prep & distribution centre where[…]
Sporting pictures of the Week :- 29 March
Yes sport goes on, and it adapts. Will Davison itching for his E-series practice. You can’t say the NRL didn’t try with its self-distancing protocols. And Wayne Bennett probably didn’t[…]
