In the way of the Olympics, football (or if you rather association football/soccer) has taken a bit of a battering both from fans, non-fans and the media. It’s unsurprising; football, …
Just to be clear; this isn’t a blog about that programme, the biggest loser, where in some sort of reality tv bullying (come self-help), a load of overweight people go …
So the Daily Express came out with this front page yesterday. Spot the mistake? Well yes, it does claim the Daily Express is the “World’s Greatest Newspaper”; a bizarrely optimistic …
Here’s a piece I wrote about the ticketing and empty seat fiasco of London 2012, how Locog are partly to blame and it will tarnish the games’ legacy if it …
On the day of the Italy-England game, a major Italian sports newspaper – La Gazzetta dello Sport - published a cartoon displaying Italian Striker Mario Balotelli as a King Kong, …
So as Euro 2012 reaches the later stages and the footballing masses of Europe have to look forward to a summer without any more football – but luckily, not without …
I have to say its difficult to be claim to be a socialist or left-wing and then be against strikes or Union action. Most people, from both sides of the …
To my eternal dismay, I have only just watched the BBC’s Panorama episode on the racism, anti-semitism and violence within the Euro 2012 hosts of Poland and Ukraine. All I …
For those of you interested in the Olympics, you have probably heard recently of the debate in GB Taekwondo over its nomination of Lutalo Muhammad ahead of Aaron Cook. The …
According to the BBC; two Australian Olympic swimmers – Nick D’Arcy and Kenrick Monk -have been ordered to remove from Facebook a photo of themselves posing with guns. A week can’t go …
