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 April 201028th September 2023athletics, Olympics London’s historic marathons The London Marathon is now established as one of the world’s premiere elite marathons. It is also probably one of the biggest […]
15th April 201028th September 2023boxing Heenan v Sayers: Boxing’s first ever world title fight Updated 1 June 2018: Frank Keating of the Guardian has written about an important anniversary for boxing on 17 April – the […]
6th April 201028th September 2023boxing, horse racing St Albans, the Grand National and a fatal fist fight Updated 23 July 2014 Thomas Coleman (c 1796-1877) a noted racehorse trainer moved to St Albans around 1820 and became licensee of […]
27th March 201028th September 2023canoeing, rowing, sailing, water sports The Tideway: a Mecca for rowing Before the Redgrave era, the Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race was virtually the only rowing ever seen on British television. First contested […]
17th March 201028th September 2023rugby What do the last three Six Nations Grand Slams have in common? This post is slightly off the topic of sporting landmarks, but topical as Rugby’s 2010 Six Nations reaches its climax. Chapter 1 […]
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 […]
15th January 201025th January 2024ice hockey, Olympics, skating, winter Olympic sports Prince’s, Knightsbridge: the first Olympic ice-sport venue This week’s tragic earthquake in Haiti appears to have prompted a tweet from London 2012 linking to a web page that reminds […]
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 […]
