The politics of global sport and their major event hosting are so murky you feel they’d make a Bond villain look positively kindergarten. We seem to have hit an epoch where each big flagship tournament has only one bidder. Such are reputations for irrecoupable costs, citizen disapproval and years
Sir Clive Woodward knows a great deal about preparing both championship teams and individual superstars. Recently he ‘chaired [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040zf09]‘ a BBC broadcast hour with a tearaway footballer. One that doesn’t necessarily fit the stereotype and is currently undertaking a degree in philosophy. (26mb
[https://twitter.com/CO3updates/status/835071891740164097] What a Series from the Land of the Long White Cloud. Rugby – sport – at its compelling best. In the aftermath of the strangely anticlimactic – and now perhaps never to be repeated – shared spoils, many words are spilled of vincible double world champions and Legend
bangers and smash, surely not Andy Murray’s “race words”? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wimbledon Fortnight. Pimms, strawberries and bendy deadlines. As an Englishmen whom appreciates tennis but laments the inordinate time commitment it commands, like my compatriots I couldn’t help but be aware of tabloid editor catnip, wild card Katie Boulter
What a series. The mouth-watering decider comes Saturday. The combined British & Irish Lions are in New Zealand. Where rugby is life. Building up to this toughest of tours, once again fans hear about that wonderfully triumphant trip against another team of imposing World Champs, S Africa, from twenty years