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21st December 201128th September 2023athletics, boxing, football, golf, Olympics, rowing, rugby, summer Olympic sports, swimming

Will London 2012 give Britain’s sporting heritage its Moment to Shine?

The ‘towns on route’ have been announced and 6800 torch bearers have been unveiled. The complex planning process for the 2012 London […]

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 […]

7th April 201115th December 2023camogie, Folk, football, gaelic football, handball, hurling, museums, rounders, rugby, women

Royal visitor for Irish sporting landmark?

Speculation that the first state visit by a British monarch to the Republic of Ireland will take in Croke Park prompted this […]

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 […]

4th March 201128th September 2023Folk, football, rugby

Shrovetide commemorations of the origins of football and rugby

The International Football Association Board, the guardian of the laws of association football, meets in the spring of each year. The 2011 […]

25th June 201028th September 2023cricket, football, golf, rugby

Charles W Alcock: the Mackem who created the FA Cup & international football

Update: 19 November 2010 – Good to hear that Alcock’s birthplace has now been commemorated with a Blue Plaque.  The Sunderland Echo […]

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 […]

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.  […]

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 […]

15th September 200928th September 2023football, rowing, summer Olympic sports

Looking for Busby’s birthplace in Lanarkshire

On 6 September 2009, Motherwell defeated Manchester United’s reserves to win the Sir Matt Busby Shield.  The charity match was organised to […]

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