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Adventures around George Best: Waggy, Thin Lizzy, Parky, 10cc, Bernard...
* JOHN ROBERTS wrote for the Daily Express, The Guardian, the Daily Mail and The Independent, where he was the tennis correspondent for 20 years. He collaborated with Bill Shankly on the Liverpool...
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Bobby Davro’s dad: ‘Austerity Olympics? In 1948 we bulked up on sherry and...
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 5 December 2011 Bill Nankeville is perched on the edge of his chair, explaining the ‘austerity’ tag routinely attached to the 1948 London Olympics,...
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Sportsmen of the Titanic: tales of loss, love and a 21st century bust-up over...
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 25 March 2012 THERE were five sportsmen on board the Titanic when it sank on 15 April 1912, although their stories are unlikely to be given much if...
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‘Ed Weston lived life a little differently from most of us, on a separate key...
* By Helen Harris 28 March 2012 Ed Weston was an ‘endurance athlete’ and a ‘sporting superstar’ many decades before either of those phrases was coined. If he’d been alive today, his athletic...
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Thirty years on from the Falklands: Sport, war and playing in the Cup for...
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 2 April 2012 Today marks the 30th anniversary of the start of the Falklands War. As Sportingintelligence contributor Matthew Barrett, a specialist...
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‘Finney would no more have tripped an opponent, or pretended to have been...
* JOHN ROBERTS wrote for the Daily Express, The Guardian, the Daily Mail and The Independent, where he was the tennis correspondent for 20 years. He collaborated with Bill Shankly on the Liverpool...
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Wales, Bale, Giggs & Co: from historic outcasts to the heart of Team GB
By Steve Menary 22 May 2012 It seems almost certain now that the number of Welshman ever to have played Olympic football for Great Britain will double or treble this summer – from two in total at...
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125 years ago this Saturday, a Scottish draper from Aston Villa wrote a...
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 26 February 2013 It was 125 years ago on Saturday, or 2 March 1888, that William McGregor, then the president of Aston Villa, wrote a letter to a...
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’11 goals, two hat-tricks, three pens, one red and several punch-ups … it was...
* Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber recently announced plans to extend his organisation’s geographic reach by adding five new franchises by 2020. The new entrants will boost MLS to 24 teams –...
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“Catterick: ruthless, demanding, never courted popularity. Mr Success”
REVIEW By John Roberts 31 October 2014 During Everton’s celebratory dinner after winning the League title in 1963, Harry Catterick, the club’s manager, mentioned to Roy Vernon, one of his stellar...
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