by admin | Jul 24, 2024 | Sports Articles
Professional tennis comes up with some astonishing statistics. Many will know that the longest match took place in the first round of Wimbledon in 2010 when John Isner eventually beat Nicholas Mahut in five sets after eleven hours and five minutes, closing...
by admin | Jul 24, 2024 | Sports Articles
There is a very old song by a man called Harry Belafonte, that came in the form of a conversation between a husband and wife, entitled, ‘There’s a hole in my bucket’. The husband advises his wife (as only husbands can do) that there is a hole in his...
by admin | Jul 24, 2024 | Sports Articles
‘The Professionals’ was a popular, American western film, released in 1966, that followed the story, of four men hired by a rich land baron to rescue his young wife, who had been kidnapped by a violent bandit. Each man had specific talents that they could...
by admin | Jul 24, 2024 | Sports Articles
“Houston, we have a problem!” Those words from the dramatic 1995 award-winning film ‘Apollo 13’ may not have been the actual words spoken by the Apollo 13 crew but they have become a catchphrase used to underline with ironic understatement the reality of a...
by admin | Jul 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
It may appear to be a silly question but let us consider it for a moment: in any sporting fixture, who is in charge? The obvious answer is that the referee or umpire is, although, at higher levels, there are also assistant referees (as linesman are...
