14th May 20223rd March 2026boxing, cricket, football, J.G. Chambers, rowing, rugby John Graham Chambers & the FA Cup Final conundrum In the 150 year history of the world’s oldest still-contested association football tournament, the second FA Cup final in 1873 was unusual […]
30th March 202229th February 2024athletics, boxing, J.G. Chambers, rowing, swimming John Graham Chambers: the lifeboat conundrum The Royal National Lifeboat Institution was the official charity partner for the 2022 Boat Race. The Chiswick Lifeboat station, one of the […]
19th February 202228th September 2023athletics, J.G. Chambers, Olympics, rowing Conundrums in the search for John Graham Chambers Since I first posted on my research into the life of Queensberry Rules author John Graham Chambers, I have accumulated more than […]
24th March 201828th September 2023rowing Boat Races for all Mass participation on the Tideway While the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race grabs all the attention there are four other, much bigger, […]
7th December 201728th September 2023athletics, boxing, football, J.G. Chambers, rowing, rugby, shooting, swimming, wrestling Fleet Street’s sporting administrators And a Sporting Landmark destroyed in the Blitz Many people bemoan what they see as the excessive influence television wields over sport, […]
17th July 201728th September 2023archery, athletics, boxing, cricket, cycling, football, Olympics, Paralympics, rugby, wrestling Para Sport in 1870 London The London Stadium, perhaps still better known as the London 2012 Olympic Stadium, hosted the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships between 14 […]
15th March 201728th September 2023boxing, fencing, judo, Olympics, polo, table tennis, taekwondo, weightlifting, wrestling Stumbling upon sporting landmarks in London’s docklands Visitors arriving at London’s Excel Centre by the Dockland Light Railway from the City usually alight at the Custom House station. For the […]
26th June 201628th September 2023rowing They did not grow old from Henley-on-Thames to the Somme The start of the Battle of the Somme is the most significant First World War anniversary that […]
10th February 201628th September 2023athletics, boxing, cricket, cycling, J.G. Chambers, rowing In search of John Graham Chambers Sport’s serial law maker On 10 February 1866, an article appeared in a new weekly newspaper welcoming the establishment of a new […]
17th May 201416th August 2024boxing, football Silversmiths and FA Cups First published 17 May 2011, Updated: 5 November 2012; 17 May 2014; 30 September 2020 & 10 January 2021. The FA Cup […]
