Ties That Bind Us

Last Saturday the British Horseracing’s Champion Flat Jockey contest was settled…in a tie. Seb Sanders and Jamie Spencer shared the title with 190 wins each …

Sportsmanship

The Ryder Cup is almost upon us and, regardless of the outcome, it is likely to produce another outpouring of Old World/New World bile. Both …

Yankee go home!

The wranglings over English Premier League clubs is now beginning to sound like a script from Dallas. Here is a quote from tonight’s London Evening …

Red Knights smell blood

Following on from Skip’s post a couple of weeks ago, the group of would-be Manchester United owners who call themselves the Red Knights have retained …

To win or not to win

I want to take up Skip’s blog of August 2nd about the competitive balance of the Premier League whose new season started yesterday. Pretty much …

Bookies all tied up

The start of the English Premier League season has been remarkable for one fact- the collapse in the number of tied games. Typically 25% of …

More regulatory rumblings

A few more stories on the proposed intervention to regulate European football emerged today. The Evening Standard, a London paper, carried a story that UEFA …