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Football Soccer Formula 1 Rugby Racing Golf Blogs TennisPublished: October 13, 2011
Sorry folks, but I can’t resist it. I’ve got to have a quiet gloat at England being Frog-marched out of the Rugby World Cup—and the emergence of my beloved Wales as contenders to become world champions. Every self-respecting Taff—male and female—is a rugby union fan. And to see our boys (and most of them are little more than boys) playing so brilliantly over in New Zealand...
Published: January 29, 2011
I know you guys across the Pond will be furious—but here in Europe we have a ball game which leaves your so-called ”football” for dead. If you Yanks hadn’t disappeared from the real world into the Bushes (by George, what a clever play on words), you would realise that FOOTBALL is actually the game the rest of the world plays—the one you refer to over there...
Published: January 27, 2011
The cynics still scoff that it was “only an exhibition match”—and maybe New Zealanders would prefer to dismiss it as such, too. But everyone knows the All Blacks don’t play exhibition matches. When your reputation as the greatest team rugby has seen is on the line, every minute of every game is for real. That’s why the Barbarians’ “wonder score” against...
Published: January 21, 2011
Golf and cricket feature in a final Top 10 from my hoard of hilarious sporting anecdotes collected from colleagues during my long career in journalism. Flee of a Kind Japan’s top golfer Isao Aoki was much in demand at the Open Championship at Lytham St Annes following his World Matchplay victory the previous year. Unfortunately, his English was not quite as good as his golf,...
Published: January 18, 2011
I picked up these amusing tales from top rugby players and journalists over many years — and dedicate them to my old friend Tony ‘Charlie’ Faulkner, subject of the first anecdote. Whether the story is apocryphal rather than factual is your call, Charlie. DON’T CALL US: During their 1978 tour of Australia, the great Welsh team of that era tried all sorts...
Published: January 16, 2011
During last summer’s World Cup, I wrote a magazine article in which I described Sepp Blatter, the most powerful administrator in world soccer, as ”an ageing plonker”. I now accept that the FIFA chairman is not ageing. He’s decrepit. Indeed, he is so far past his sell-by date that I suggest his native Switzerland considers putting him out of his misery. Euthanasia is perfectly...