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
Episode three of the show saw me joined by musician and spoken word artist Scroobius Pip (@ScroobiusPipyo), a man with a lot of fingers in a lot of pies. Pip has released two albums with Dan Le Sac, with a third to follow on October, and a solo record Distraction Pieces which hit the UK … Continue reading
The latest edition of Interesting People Talking Wrestling featured an interview with MMA broadcaster and journalist Brad Wharton (@MMABrad48) who joined the show to talk about all things MMA and professional wrestling. You can CLICK HERE to listen/subscribe/leave a glowing five star review on iTunes Or if you’re not a fan of iTunes, you can CLICK HERE to listen … Continue reading
Week two of my boxing betting previews, and a look back at last weeks results sees me 5-0 in terms of picking the right boxer to win. A few anomalies in the results, Martin Murray perhaps should have beaten Sergio Martinez on point, and Nate Campbell’s injury pull-out at the end of round four versus … Continue reading
Welcome to my new weekly blog, where I will preview the weekend’s boxing action, with some betting tips and predictions. I will be keeping a tally of the fights I got right, and got wrong. Saturday night has one of the most intriguing British cards of the year so far from the Motorpoint Arena in … Continue reading
In a weekend that saw the return of Ronnie O’Sullivan to the world of snooker, Rafael Nadal lose his first match in Monte Carlo since 2003, and where Luis Suarez made yet more headlines for aping Mike Tyson, it seems fitting that amidst all the news over the last couple days, that another Tyson made … Continue reading
As luck would have it, Wrestlemania 29, held at the Metlife Stadium in New Jersey was happening at the same time as my trip to New York. I’m a lifelong wrestling fan, so the chance to go to Wrestlemania, frequently referred to as ‘the grandest stage of them all’, was one that had to be … Continue reading
The latest edition of Interesting People Talking Wrestling sees me joined by NFL broadcaster and journalist Mike Carlson (@CarlsonSports) You can CLICK HERE to listen/subscribe/leave a glowing five star review on iTunes. Or if you’re not a fan of iTunes, you can CLICK HERE to listen to a stream. The interview covered a broad spectrum of wrestling chat, from … Continue reading
The latest edition of Interesting People Talking Wrestling sees me joined in the studio by football journalist and broadcaster Gabriele Marcotti (@Marcotti) You can CLICK HERE to listen/subscribe/leave a glowing five star review on iTunes. Or if you’re not a fan of iTunes, you can CLICK HERE to listen to a stream. The interview mostly centres about Marcotti’s … 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
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