2012 was a bumper year for sport, with Olympic Games, European Championships and Ryder Cup’s galore. At the end of last year, I wrote about my five favourite sporting moments of the year which you can access by clicking here. With 2013 lacking the marquee events of the year before, I was wary at the … Continue reading
If you have a look at what happened in 1979 in the United Kingdom, you would wonder how anybody survived the year at all. January saw strikes, from lorry drivers, grave-diggers, rail workers and pretty much every other sector of society, leading to what became known as the Winter of Discontent. February saw the … Continue reading
There has been so much written about the sheer amount of great sport in 2012, that it seems too predictable to write some more crap about how sport ‘united’ a nation, or any of that baloney, because, quite frankly, who cares what some nobody has to say about it? So here are my five favourite … Continue reading
MARTIN HINES 