1) In 1992 professional footballers would race 100m down the side of the Wembley pitch in their respective club’s full kit and boots before the League Cup final, for the not-inconsiderable prize of £10,000. Back then the final was known as the Rumbelows Cup, and so the Rumbelows Sprint Challenge […]
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Brendan Rodgers’ men were drawn in Group B and face glamour ties with European heavyweights Bayern Munich, big-spending French cracks Paris Saint-Germain and Belgian champions Anderlecht. Davies knows the financial power of PSG – who smashed the transfer record to land Brazilian superstar Neymar from Barcelona for £198m – and […]
With Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain reported to be meeting with the Arsenal hierarchy this afternoon, Wenger refused even to confirm the appointment let alone the subject matter. “We all have our agendas that are quite busy but we do not publish them,” he said. “Some people look better informed than I am! […]
1) It might look like one of those adverts where a member of the public is chucked into a professional game for some reason, but the results of mounting a camera on the ref’s head for the game between MLS All-Stars and Real Madrid are all kinds of excellent. Warning […]
A curious factor occurred in our nook of south east London final month. Normally quiet facet streets have been rammed with double parked vehicles, the babble of excited younger followers with accents from across the nation stuffed the air and the bought out indicators went up at The Valley for […]
If we’ve realized something from the previous couple of Olympics, it’s that the Games are going by an id disaster. Rocked by a doping scandal and with an older viewers than ever, the International Olympic Committee is trying to rehabilitate its picture by interesting to a uninterested youth. With sports […]
If you had been away from the planet for the previous quarter of a century, one of many few belongings you may discover comfortingly acquainted in your return is the world of sport. While the digital revolution has remodeled the way in which we store, chat, date, do politics and […]
What precisely are eSports and simply how briskly are they rising? In our last Sport 2.zero movie, we ask why 1000’s of individuals have begun to attend eSport occasions throughout the globe and have a look at how issues reminiscent of corruption and dishonest might have an effect on sport’s […]