by admin | Jul 12, 2024 | Sports Articles
“The wonderful thing about Tiggers,” as any parent who has read AA Milne’s Winnie The Pooh stories to his child (or watched the Disney films) will know, “is Tiggers are wonderful things”. Tigger lives with his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood and bounces...
by admin | Jul 12, 2024 | Sports Articles
Prior to the 1980s, international hockey matches were played on grass but thereafter all international matches (and subsequently all league matches) were played on the synthetic Astroturf pitches, where the ball ran smoother and players were less likely to...
by admin | Jul 12, 2024 | Sports Articles
Bill Shankly, the fanatical soccer manager who reinvented Liverpool Football Club in the late 1960s, famously said that, “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.” Had he lived to...
by admin | Jul 12, 2024 | Sports Articles
“You’re for the high jump, boy!” Those are not words that we want to hear, for sure! If we do hear them, then we are in trouble, serious trouble; we are going to be punished definitely, severely, swiftly, in which case we would be best to move away from...
by admin | Jul 12, 2024 | Sports Articles
Many newspapers delight in coming up with very catchy, memorable, clever headlines to persuade the reader to read the article that follows. One of the greatest examples must surely be one that was printed in the Sun newspaper in the UK in 2000 when...