This week we have all mainly been pre-occupied with football transfer windows, apart from the Manchester United and Newcastle United management teams, of course. First of all we had the on-going saga of the worldwide football leagues’ transfer window or the “What...
After TNF (Thursday Night Football for the uninitiated) the short car journey back from Robin Park into Wigan town centre for a re-fuelling pint is usually an opportunity to mercilessly slag off someone’s earlier poor performance on the Astroturf. Usually, someone who...
Last Saturday, for the second time around, Wigan Athletic made their debut in the Championship, the second tier of English football. This bow was taken at Oakwell, the home of Barnsley FC, and was watched by over 2,500 Wiganers happy to watching proper football again...
The 2013 version of the world’s greatest golf championship has started at Muirfield in Edinburgh. It is one of my favourite television weeks of the sporting year. However, the chances of me watching The Open from the minute the first drive is struck on Thursday...
There are many who believe that the only good thing ever to come out of Australia is Qantas flight QF1 to London. Personally, I wouldn’t quite go that far, but as a Brit, there’s certainly nothing much better than getting one over the Aussies and being able to rip...
