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 […]
11th April 201228th September 2023Olympics, rugby, summer Olympic sports Melrose – birthplace of rugby sevens Staged annually in April, the Melrose 7s festival is a reminder that the next team sport to be added to the Olympic […]
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 […]
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 […]
27th May 201128th September 2023cricket, tennis Game, set and match… to Brum? – From BBC Radio 4’s Today Prog Today, the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 ran a story on Birmingham’s role in the development of lawn tennis. The item […]
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 […]
