There was a time, not so long ago, when football clubs were the heart of the community. Places where local people escaped to on a Saturday afternoon to support their heroes. Places where the aim was to win trophies and make the city proud and places ...
The sporting hero is an ambiguous being. Sometimes they are thrust into the popular conscience of the nation on the back of a fantastic sporting triumph, only later to be cast aside. Who can forget the great swell of support for Audley Harrison ...
December draws ever nearer and with it comes a chance for people to review the year that was. We all love lists and in sport one of the lists the public can influence is the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. And with the national football team ...
Booing reverberated around the stadiums of England’s Premier League clubs this weekend, as the true 'supporters' of English football expressed their considered and intelligent response to Wednesday’s debacle. The IQ of these people is bare;y higher ...
The Football Association could solve all the problems facing English football in two hours 15 minutes. With the journey time between central London - home of the football men in suits - and Paris, quicker than ever thanks to Eurostar’s new services ...
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. These were the words of Aristotle, and on a day when England have so obviously been proved inferior, a ...
As tabloid newspapers reveal scandalous stories about superstar footballers, the positive effect of sport in our communities is being overlooked. Every week thousands of young children are benefiting from schemes designed to get them involved in sport, ...
It’s a week since the Rugby World Cup Final brought and end to the sport's greatest competition. England against South Africa and, as in all sporting finals, there could only be one winner. Or could there? The difference this time, following South ...
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