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British swimming’s latest conveyor belt blonde
British Swimming, as the national governing body for swimming, is responsible internationally for the the high performance representation of the sport in major competitions. To ensure that they maintain a high level of success, they have a factory somewhere in Britain, reportedly in the Midlands area, which produces swimmers. Over the past five years, the British Swimming [...]
How to keep up to date with Pope and Swift’s 2010 World Cup coverage
So your favourite sports commentary duo are going out to South Africa for the 2010 World Cup but what can you expect to see from messrs Pope ans Swift? Well, there are several ways to follow the happenings of this fair blog as over the next month, with our very own World Cup challenge, a Twitter feed and even a swanky new Facebook page. [...]
Betting tales – Money for Swift, misery for Pope
As readers of this fine blog will know, both myself and Pope enjoy the odd gamble and we have revelled in telling you of our glorious wins and depressing losses. Rarely though does the result of one game tip the scales in the favour of one of us, whilst leaving the other empty handed, or [...]
McCoy’s handshakes tell their own story
Handshakes are a big deal in sport. Not many people realise but the humble clasping of hands holds a great deal of significance. Offer one and you extend warm appreciation to your opponent, an acknowledgment of their skill. The failure to do so implies quite the opposite. Just look at Wayne Bridge’s unwillingness to touch palms with John Terry and, back in 2005, [...]
Win or lose, Ruiz fight leaves Haye in ruins
David Haye should enjoy these next few days before his WBA title defence against John Ruiz in Manchester. Not because he will get the beating of a life time against the 39-year-old American but because things will not get any better from this point. That’s right, Haye can leave Ruiz in a bloody mess after [...]
Betting tales – Ronald Zubar, my saviour
Sometimes in life, when your struggling or have lost your way, you need someone to give you lift, someone to drag you out of the doldrums of the rut you are in, someone to reaffirm your faith in what you thought you knew. For one half of Pope and Swift, that saviour descended last night in the form [...]
Betting tales: So near and yet so far
They say the best things in life are free and there cannot be many things better for a young man who enjoys sport, than winning a free bet. There have indeed been many an occasion when we have waxed lyrical about the joys of making money simply from correctly predicting that certain teams will win [...]
Eco-martyr Neville shows PR has gone mad
Last week, Pope and Swift stumbled across a sentence that they never thought they would bear witness to. ‘Footballer Gary Neville has applied to build a flower-shaped eco-friendly house in Greater Manchester’ it read. Cue bemusement. Surely it was some sort of a joke, some sort of premature April Fool’s gag, Rio Ferdinand murking the Manchester [...]
What do you get when you take two fat blokes and lots of alcohol?
Darts. Well essentially, that is the stigma which the game has thanks to it’s marmite like qualities. But despite the phenomenal dedication and skill displayed by men and women professionals in the sport, darts will, in some quarters, never be recognised as a sport. The conflicting attitudes mean that it doesn’t matter how many world [...]
Betting tales – ‘You don’t win anything with midweek bets’
Alan Hansen was wrong, you actually can win quite a lot with kids. What Alan should have told us all, to save him the ridicule and me the cash, is ‘You don’t win anything with midweek bets’.
I’m speaking from experience, of course. Monday night’s football was meant to be the last hurrah of 2009, an opportunity of a final flurry that would leave [...]