Category: Sport

It seems that the ticket agency in Piccadilly Circus tube station doesn’t now offer tickets to matches. It’s actually illegal in the UK to resell tickets to football matches due to crowd control issues, but giving out “information” isn’t. They even put the word in inverted commas.

Wow. Isn’t Ashley Cole a bitter man? I think we’re getting a very biased and one-sided view in the first extract of his book – a book, incidentally, I certainly won’t be reading. It’s called My Defence. He bemoans the fact that fans were still singing Henry’s name and not his at the end of…

So I took some photos of the Tour of Britain last week, including the one above which I thought would make a nice picture of the cyclists crossing Tower Bridge. Then I picked up this week’s Cycling Weekly to see the picture below (by Mark Lees of Empics) in nearly the same position. And who’s…

Today saw the Tour of Britain arrive in London and I set out unneccessarily early to see the Tour cross Tower Bridge. It was a good opportunity to give my camera a decent work out. Some of the photos are OK, but others aren’t. Have a look below, and also my Flickr stream (Why does…

You just know we’re entering silly season when you read stories like this. Ken Livingstone apparently believes that getting cyclists to fit licence plates so that they could be fined for infractions like jumping red lights or cycling on the pavement would be a good idea. I suspect that as this comment came during a…

So what to make of the drug charges that newly crowned Tour de France winner Floyd Landis is chasing? I was amazed to read that it was Landis who’d been charged. At some point yesterday I heard a vague radio report that one of the riders in this year’s Tour had been found positive for…

Yesterday’s stage in the Tour de France was spectacular with Floyd Landis cracking badly on the final climb, rueing the day that he decided to let Oscar Pereiro get half an hour on the field and get into yellow.

I’m completely with Martin Kelner on the various merits of Sport Relief. Kelner mentions Chris Evans high-fiving some tsunami survivors, while I was unfortunate enough to be there at the end when all the participants starting hugging one another congratulating themselves on a job well done. The most truthful comment came from a showstopping Peter…

Not everything is going completely wrong in sport this summer, well not quite all anyway. England maybe out of the World Cup, but Andy Murray’s still in Wimbledon, and the 2006 edition of Le Tour has started. OK, not everything’s beautiful in the world of cycling with a massive fallout from an ongoing to Spanish…

I know we’re still in the midst of the trials and tribulations that are watching England progress through a major football tournament, but things just get busier. As well as Wimbledon starting today, next weekend sees the return of my sporting highlight of the summer – the Tour de France. When ITV4 started last autumn,…

I know I should be talking about England 1 Ecuador 0, but I got fed up of listening to the loons on 606 to bother with that (and I include Alan Green amongst their number). But I’ve just witnessed a match that saw more cards than…, than…, Clinton’s! So who exactly are Portugal going to…

Last night the BBC chose to show Brazil v Japan rather than the simultaneous Australia v Croatia. This was pretty disappointing because even though Japan took an unlikely early lead, it was obvious that Japan needed to rely on the other result and then score a hatful against Brazil to get through. I was watching…

A very unfortunate ad from the Northern Rock building society at the foot of the front page of The Guardian’s sports section today. Five months is how long Owen looks like he’s going to be out for. [UPDATE] Northern Rock are pulling the ads.