Archive for June, 2009
Betting tales – The betslip blunder
Betting isn’t always glorious. If anything, it has the potential to go horribly wrong.
An acquaintance of ours found this out when they wagered on the 2009 Masters in April this year. Said friend went to back Angel Cabrera at 100 to 1, only to mark the name beneath the Argentinian. An easy mistake to make in [...]
Glasto: a world without sport
This weekend, I have been shown a world without sport and it ain’t pretty. Glastonbury Festival may be the world’s premier contemporary performing arts festival but the greatest performing arts of them all, those produced on pitches, are not welcome upon Worthy Farm. Sport is almost a swear word amongst the somewhat pretentious music types that flock [...]
Yeah! I love Soccer!
How wonderful was it to see the USA’s remarkable march to the final of the Confederations Cup? As if the six goal turnaround in the final group game wasn’t enough, those chaps from across the pond then went and beat arguably the best team in the world, and they were worthy winners. And it was [...]
Girls too loud to be ignored
I have preached to you all before on the impressive work done by England women’s cricket team and I also stressed the need to not try and hype them up and just let them do their job. Well congratulations all round then as ‘our girls’ sealed the world Twenty20 trophy at Lord’s this weekend. However, [...]
Aussie early exit may mean England are dead meat
You can stop laughing at their ineptitude and you can stop poking fun at their self-imposed stint in Leicester. Australia’s early exit from the ICC World Twenty20 is far from a joke and quite possibly the worst possible news for England ahead of the Ashes.
Australia’s current predicament is the archetypal instance of the wounded animal. Like a battered and [...]
Sport gone mad: The summer’s craziest scenarios
There must be something in the Lucozade. The past few weeks has seen the world of sport endure more shocks than a bad electrician; English tennis players do not usually win tournaments, Rafa Nadal does not normally lose and England’s cricket team, for all their weakness, do not normally capitulate to a team more familiar with a clog [...]
Transfer rich list does not lie
Do you know what is the most frightening part about Christiano Ronaldo’s circus-style transfer to Real Madrid? No, not the astronomical wages he will earn,which peak at £500,000 a week in the sixth year of his mammoth contract. No, not that, after a gap of eight years since Zinedine Zidane’s record transfer to Madrid, Ronnie’s move [...]
7 Again
Those wanting to turn David’s Beckham’s life into a film needn’t bother. It’s already been done. 17 Again, Zac Efron’s latest offering, released last April, is effectively a cinematic biography of Goldenballs.
Efron plays Michael O’Donnell, a star athlete with much to love about life, but he might as well be the Beckham of 2004, one [...]
Fergie laughing all the way to the bank
I’ve said it before and I will say it again. Sir Alex Ferguson is a clever bloke. He is rude, arrogant and aggressive but my God is he an astute chap, and with the sale of Cristiano Ronaldo for £80 million he has proved his genius again. Forget the fact that he is the man responsible for [...]
Good riddance to sleazy Setanta
So much for the saviour of sports broadcasting. Setanta was meant to be the firm hand and fresh insight to rival the dominance of Sky Sports but the company have only managed to create a financial crisis almost a large as the ITV Digital collapse in 2002. Administration looms for the Irish broadcaster but nobody really cares.
From the horrible yellow branding to the strained [...]