Category: Sport

An update on Wembley again. One thing that I forgot to talk about was the hand-dryers in the bathrooms. As everybody picked up upon by The Londonist noted, the dryers are rocket powered. Normally they’re half-hearted affairs that blow out mildly warm air, failing to dry your hands, yet running up the premises’ electricity bill…

Back in 2000/2001 I went to the old Wembley Stadium for a lunch there. The stadium had closed and Sports.com (who at the time were trying to create a proper sports portal rather than today’s gambling-fixated effort) had invited a group of us to meet the 1966 England team. I wasn’t due to go, but…

OK. Not quite. But I have signed up for the British Cyclosportive which follows the route of Stage 1 of the Tour De France from London to Canterbury. We ride the route a week before the main event. It’s 187 km (120 miles) and your’re expected to ride at a minimum average speed of 20…

Up bright and early to head off to Cardiff to see Arsenal v Chelsea in the Carling Cup Final at the Millennium Stadium. The traffic was awful, and it took far longer to get there than it did a few years back when we drove up for the FA Cup Final (also against Chelsea). Leaving…

He live blogs 24 each week, and boy is he a prolific blogger by the way… But there’s a great quote from him about the Superbowl which is being held in Miami this Sunday: “[The Superbowl is] the biggest sporting event in the world, unless you include other parts of the world.” (via Mediaguardian)

We went to watch this epic third round FA Cup tie yesterday afternoon. I’d not been to Selhurst Park before. It’s obviously a ground (and a club) that’s seen better days. When we got to the visiting fans ticket booth there was a largish queue and not a lot happening. It seemed that there was…

I see that I’m not alone in thinking that perhaps putting gambling sponsors on football shirts mightn’t be the smartest idea. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, Aston Villa, Blackburn, Middlesborough and Spurs all feature gambling advertisers on their shirts. I’m not the only person to notice that gambling appeals enormously to kids, and…

The shortlist for this year’s Sports Personality of the Year is in, with the winner to be decided by a phone and text vote on Sunday night, live during the programme. First things first: David Walliams isn’t on the list. It was thought that he might make it for his charity swim across the English…

A disappointing 0-0 draw. But I did take my camera…

Five Live had a report today about how gambling, and to a lesser extent porn, are becoming quite serious addictions amongst some young footballers. You can listen to the report here. It’s ironic, then, that so many shirt sponsors in the British leagues are now tacky internet gambling companies. Step forward Aston Villa, Blackburn, Middlesborough…

Following on from my moan the other day about the ridiculousness of football managers “banning” the BBC from their press conferences or making any comments to them, it was pleasing to hear Chief Sports Writer of The Mirror, Oliver Holt, saying the same thing on Sportsweek this morning. He said it was a bit of…

So following last week’s Panorama into football bungs, Sam Alladyce, the “embattled” Bolton manager has imposed a ban on the BBC at all his press conferences. He now joins Sir Alex Ferguson in refusing to talk to the BBC (Fergie is unhappy at the way his son was treated in a previous BBC documentary). Now if…