27th July 201028th September 2023rowing, water sports Portobello revives regatta days Always interested to read about efforts to re-establish long-lost sporting events – especially when the event in question is linked to the […]
11th March 201028th September 2023athletics, cricket, cycling, football, rugby, tennis The Six Nations and the origins international rugby Each spring, Murrayfield, Twickenham, the Aviva Stadium on Dublin’s Lansdowne Road and the Millennium Stadium become places of pilgrimage for rugby enthusiasts. […]
4th February 201028th September 2023Olympics, summer Olympic sports, tennis Scotland’s first winner of a tennis major On the morning that Andy Murray unsuccessfully contested his second tennis major final in Melbourne in 2010, the Independent on Sunday ran […]
11th January 201027th November 2023rugby, women Enniskillen – birthplace of women’s rugby Hot on the heels of my post on the origins of sevens rugby, Simon Barnes wrote about a landmark for women’s rugby […]