On Saturday I took my youngest daughter swimming for the first time since March. She’s a bright and loving child but quite nervous and lacks the confidence of her older sister. As such, swimming has been something of an uphill struggle and though she made progress over eighteen months of lessons, these gains naturally fell […]
Sometimes the left hand doesn’t know what the extreme left hand is doing. Any serious sports fan knows that women’s sport is being massively pushed at the moment. Take women’s cricket, for example. A couple of years ago cricket sites like Cricinfo suddenly started giving a lot of prominence to women’s matches, reporting them like […]
So Peter Crouch, former England player, renowned for his humour, full of funny tales about life as a football star, gets interviewed by the Telegraph. This being the modern Telegraph, full of woke younger writers — not woke at the level of the Guardian, obs, but still sensitive to the pressing trendy issues of the […]
How We Can Be A Better Cricket Team, by Trevor Bayliss: Exclusively revealed: Trevor Bayliss shares his blueprint for English cricket to make the Test team more successful One of his ideas is: Banning touring players from playing county cricket before a Test series That is, stop the opposition players getting some practice in in […]
Telegraph football writer Paul Hayward can always be relied upon to pen a nauseating article, and he hasn’t let us down. He notes the awful behaviour of some England football fans abroad: Dozens of fans stopped the cars of local residents trying to drive home to mock them; at least one supporter jumped on the […]
The Telegraph thinks it is news that the producer of BBC’s Match of the Day thinks Match of the Day is wonderful. “It would sometimes get frustrating when you would get complaints that were simply factually wrong: for instance, there was this idea around that the commentators were not at the matches. I tried to […]
The Guardian gets the tennis world’s reaction to Serena Williams’ antics at the US Open 180 degrees arse-backwards, as usual: Tennis players past and present have rallied behind Serena Williams after she claimed the sport was riddled by sexism following an extraordinary on-court tirade at an umpire during the US Open women’s final. But the […]
Some born-again runner called Helen Croydon is acting like most born-again types do: It might seem like an odd coupling: the glamorous, glossy, raunchy Rita Ora, rarely seen in a photograph without brows, lashes and lips painted to perfection; and… football. The singer and TV talent show judge is backing a campaign with UEFA to get more […]