Rugby vs. Football: What Football Could Learn From Rugby

Well I’m hoping all you rugby fans are enjoying the World Cup so far?  Good.  I’m happy, although England went out against France, I’m happy to see the best rugby-playing team in the final and surely, at last, will be World Champions.  New Zealand not only play rugby the way it’s supposed to be played [...]

My Google Reader Feeds: Sport Sites

With these posts I’m basically looking for new suggestions for feeds to follow. The list below is what I currently follow in Google Reader for my sport fix, just a few: BBC Football Blog: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/football/atom.xml The BBC’s footie blog BBC F1 Blog: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/formula1/atom.xml The BBC’s Formula One blog BBC Rugby Blog: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/rugbyunion/atom.xml The BBC’s rugby [...]

Formula One Live Chat: 28th August 2011 – Belgian GP

    Feel free to join in teh Google+ live chat going on right now for today’s F1 race.  The link is: https://plus.google.com/104405539079062799451/posts/9TCSURBvFhK Related articles Belgian GP qualifying: drama aplenty as Vettel shines (sundayafternoonclub.blogs.topgear.com) Vettel takes pole position for Belgian GP (seattletimes.nwsource.com) Live – Belgian GP practice (news.bbc.co.uk)

Roy Hodgson and Liverpool part company – BBC Sport

Thank goodness. 5 points from bottom, 20+ points from top. About bloody time he went! Amplify’d from news.bbc.co.uk Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson has left the club by mutual consent. Hodgson, 63, had won only seven of their 20 Premier League games since he took over from Rafael Benitez in July 2010 with the club 12th [...]

Man Utd 3-2 Liverpool :-(

It looks like a good match from the scoreline but sad we have been beaten and now sit all the way down in 16th!! Amplify’d from news.bbc.co.uk Dimitar Berbatov’s rejuvenation continued as his brilliant hat-trick gave Manchester United a fully deserved win against Liverpool at Old Trafford.Read more at news.bbc.co.uk See this Amp at http://bit.ly/9hduAU

New Zealand beat England in women’s World Cup final

Ahh. this is a real shame. Happy they did so well though! Amplify’d from news.bbc.co.uk New Zealand’s women broke English hearts as they retained their World Cup crown in a nail-biting and hard-fought contest.Read more at news.bbc.co.uk   See this Amp at http://bit.ly/aOM1lk

South Downs Stages Rally

My brother, his girl friend and myself went down to Goodwood, Chicester on 2nd February 2008 for the Towncross Engineering South Downs Stages rally car event. It was a 5am get-up and we were off at about 6:30am. Nice and early to avoid the traffic and we arrived about 8:15am. As we had never been to a [...]

Red Bull Air Race 2007

My brother and I enjoyed the Red Bull Air Race on Sunday 29th July 2007. We were up at the crack of dawn, missed the first train out of Edenbridge so drove to Redhill to get up to London. Tube was fine and we found it to be fairly quiet when we first got there [...]

Festival of Speed 2007

My brother and I went down to Goodwood Festival of Speed 2007 near Chicester for the middle day (Saturday 23rd June 2007). We were up early as we thought we’d either get lost like we normally do or we’d get stuck in major traffic. But the journey down was a doddle (apart from a little [...]

Day at the Wimbledon 2007 championships

My brother and I went on the first Friday of the Wimbledon tennis championships (6th July 2007). We’ve never been before but it was great and we’re hoping to go next year (centre court here we come ). I train’ed it up from Thatcham while Neal travelled from Croydon – guess which one of us [...]