21st March 201328th September 2023football The Football League: conceived in Fleet Street, born in Manchester As well as the 150th anniversary of the Football Association, 2013 also marks the 125th anniversary of the world’s first league football […]
4th May 201228th September 2023football 140 years of FA Cup final venues The FA Cup final has been synonymous with Wembley since 1923. However, 10 venues have staged finals over the tournament’s 140 year […]
2nd May 201228th September 2023football Liverpool’s 19th Century contribution to Goal Line Technology Disputed goals are nothing new. Neither are proposals for goal line technology. In the game’s early days, goals were defined by two […]
30th September 201128th September 2023football Blue Plaques for Busby Babes A great project initiated by pupils and staff at Stretford High School led to blue commemorative plaques being placed on the digs […]
16th September 201128th September 2023swimming Captain Webb: ‘Shropshire Lad’ and the original swimming hero The public reaction to David Walliams’ marathon eight-day swim along 140 miles of the River Thames in aid of Sport Relief is […]
9th April 201128th September 2023horse racing The Grand National’s Waterloo A recurring theme in the development of sport is the role played by hoteliers and licensees in promoting new events in the […]
29th March 201128th September 2023athletics, cricket, football Arthur Wharton – the first black professional footballer Ghana becomes the 84th country to play a football international against England today. A few days ago, Henry Winter, the Telegraph’s excellent […]
26th April 201028th September 2023cycling, football, rugby FC United to put down roots in Newton Heath Great article from David Conn of the Guardian on FC United’s plans to return to the birthplace of Manchester United in the […]
24th September 200928th September 2023football, women ‘Wembley for women’ aspires to rival Goodison Park In September 2009, the Guardian reported on Nottingham Forrest’s plans for a new stadium and its vision to offer their proposed new […]