Less than a week to go till London’s Rockin’ Rollers clash with the Glasgow Irn Bruisers at Bethnal Green’s famous old boxing venue, York Hall. Tickets for this very first home bout for the Rockin’ Rollers are just £10 and include free half time entertainment …
If this happens, it’ll be brilliant: Hyde Park could become an official “fan park” for the 2010 World Cup. Every host city in South Africa is getting one, and the Telegraph got a tip-off from one of the organisers that London is also on the …
We’ve flirted with Roller Derby before and you can see why. It’s a fresh and fierce sport, practiced by the feistiest of women where athleticism, fitness, daring, speed and battle worn balls go hand in hand with bad ass attitude, total commitment, tattoos and, in …
Picture via wonker’s Flickrstream Being a Tottenham Hotspur fan has rarely been a passport to an easy ride, but their fans must, more than ever, be wondering what the point of their devotion really is. Had a virus not overtaken the team on the verge …
Picture via manuel | MC’s Flickrstream These days the back pages of newspapers are as likely to be full of stories about anti-doping measures, sponsorship, lottery funding, event bidding, video streaming, third party player ownership and points deductions as they are about sporting events themselves …
Image by Marty Nelson News this week from the great city of Londongrad about two of our fine Russian friends with interests in the city of a footballing nature. Firstly, Roman Abramovich, he of the perma-bemused boat race as he watches his team of misfits …
Picture via Free-ers Flickrstream We imagine when Chelsea FC’s Performance Director agreed to talk at Birkbeck Sports Business Centre’s Seminar series tonight he did not imagine that it would be only 48 hours after club manager Luiz Felipe Scolari’s dismissal. Given that Big Phil lost …
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Photo by Michael Wailes Harry Redknapp spent January as the footballing incarnation of those odd fellows at car boot sales who go around buying up other bits from rival stalls and then attempting to sell them back for a profit the next week. The capture …
This week’s interviewee, is South London legend, the Onion Bag Blog, who has been musing about all things South of the river since 2003. We caught up with him to find out what about London keeps him typing. If you had to describe your blog …
As we predicted last year, the national stadium will get to warm up for the Olympics by hosting the 2011 European Cup final. It will be London’s first such final since the Barcelona-Sampdoria game of 1992, in an era when English teams, post-Heysel, had only …
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