Have the teams in the Euros been trying to make England
feel good about themselves?Opening games of tournaments have become increasingly cagey affairs, teams scared of getting off to a bad start, leading to some dire football and said teams ending up on the...
View ArticleThe beautiful game
returns in time.As I posted the other day I fancied Italy to do something in the Euros, in a way I’m glad they didn’t go on to win it and not just because I didn’t have the courage to back ’em.Well for...
View ArticleA pair of grand
tours.The Vuelta a Espana and the Tour of Britain finished at the weekend both in their own way were grand.The Vuelta turned out the be the Tour de France that wasn’t, with two of the favourites for...
View ArticleBeware the quiet man, he’ll dull
you into submission.It, unfortunately, looks like not even England’s clutching of a draw from the jaws of victory against Spain in his final audition will prevent the F.A. hiring Gareth...
View ArticleThe latest victory for Chris Froome puts him on the top step
of British sporting achievement.His four Tour Dr France victories already had him up there but adding a second Grand Tour in year with la Vuelta really seals it.With the help of some injury Chris...
View ArticleEngland don’t lose football game
shocker.Gareth Southgate luckily managed to not become the first England manager to lose four games in a row as his side squeaked a friendly victory over Switzerland.After England’s first outing in the...
View ArticleAnother Grand Tour, another British
victory.For the fifth time running a Grand Tour ended with a Brit stood on the top step of the podium, as Simon Yates triumphed in this year’s Vuelta a Espana.Of the last 20 Grand Tours that have taken...
View ArticleThe shame in Spain falls mainly
on the football team.Spain thought they’d hit rock bottom during the World Cup, when they insipidly passed their way out of the tournament, little did they know just a few months later they’d find out...
View ArticleCan England win the international Carabao
Cup?After defeating Croatia in their final Nations League game, England topped the group so head to Portugal next summer to play a semi-final, can they finally win something, no matter how small it...
View ArticleIt’s some way to win your seventh Grand Tour and your first Grand Tour
in intensive care.After Chris Froome’s horrific crash during a recce for the Criterium du Dauphine time trial comes the news that JJ Cobo, winner of the 2011 Vuelta has been retrospectively banned,...
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