With the new football season now just a week away, and the Premier League a fortnight away, it’s that time of the year where you need to finalise those all important Fantasy Football teams ahead of the opening weekend.
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Carling Cup Predictor Challenge
To celebrate the new 2009/10 Carling Cup tournament and new official competition website www.carlingcup.com, Carling is inviting football fans to take part in the Carling Cup Predictor Challenge, which lets fans show off their football knowledge for the chance to win Carling prizes and tickets to the Carling Cup Final.
Toulouse Diary: Day Four
Monday 27th July. Hometime. The last day of any sort of holiday is always depressing, regardless of whether you want to come home (as in this case) or not. Mainly because it means work in the morning. But also because it takes ages to get back. We said bye to our hippodrome setting with a […]
Toulouse Diary: Day Three
Sunday 26th July. Well today pretty much confirmed that Toulouse is not a tourist destination. Surely there are better places for a future Super League franchise?! A late start saw us up in time for lunch and we headed to the tried and tested McDonald’s to fill our boots for the day. And what a […]
Toulouse Diary: Day Two
Saturday 25th July. Matchday. Many Widnes fans over for the weekend were probably looking to have a good time and a nice break away from their hectic lifestyles. But to me, only one thing matters, and that’s the result. If Widnes win, it’s a good weekend. If Widnes lose, it’s not. Simples. Unfortunately, the shutters […]
Toulouse Diary: Day One
At 3.30am on Friday July 24th I set off on the longest trip I’ve ever made for an away game, some 39 hours before Widnes kick off their league match against Toulouse. Thanks to the RFL, we now have a French team in the second tier of the “UK” rugby league structure, and my trip […]
The injury jinx
What is it that makes English sport stars synonymous with injury? Go back to 1998. Young English striker Michael Owen announced himself on the world stage with that goal against Argentina in the World Cup, in a game that also saw David Beckham famously red-carded, and Sol Campbell inexplicably have a goal disallowed that cost […]
A cricketing tradition
I see England somehow salvaged a draw in the first Ashes test against Australia. I say see, I didn’t, thanks to the fact that Sky Sports has the rights to all the cricket these days, and they have done ever since that fantastic Ashes triumph in 2005 that gripped the nation and apparently meant cricket […]
