WAR CRIES AND WAR CRIMES  

WAR CRIES AND WAR CRIMES  

George Orwell, the author of ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’, famously wrote in 1945 that,  “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness,  disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in...
WITHOUT MORALS YOU ARE WORTHLESS

WITHOUT MORALS YOU ARE WORTHLESS

Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, commonly known as Ronaldinho, is a Brazilian ex-professional footballer,  often regarded as one of the best players of his generation, even one of the greatest of all time. He  won the World Cup as well as the Champions League and...
DISCIPLINED OR DISQUALIFIED 

DISCIPLINED OR DISQUALIFIED 

‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ was a farcical comedy written in the last years of the nineteenth  century by Oscar Wilde, in which “the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape  burdensome social obligations” while the play’s major themes...
HOW GOOD ARE WE ON OUR BAD DAYS?  

HOW GOOD ARE WE ON OUR BAD DAYS?  

As a twenty-year old, Tom Lewis shot to prominence in the 2011 British Open golf championship  when as an amateur he shared the lead after the first round (scoring the lowest single-round score  by an amateur in Open Championship history) and ultimately...
NO BOOKINGS NECESSARY  

NO BOOKINGS NECESSARY  

There is one award in team sport that not many people can claim. Gary Lineker, the former England  international striker (now a sports commentator and television personality) is one famous example,  a lesser-known Algerian by the name of Abdelhamid Salhi,...