The festive season always creates a natural time to reflect on what has happened...
It's very much felt like the end of an era stepping away from a...
An unfortunate incident in a non-league football match reported on by me blew up...
Phoenix clubs are an unfortunate necessity of modern day football, but rarely do they...
Over the last few weeks, I’ve seen a few members of my family. A couple of them, play junior football. I love discussing all the memories I have from when...
Yesterday saw Newcastle and Middlesbrough join West Brom in the Championship next season. It’s quite a fall from grace for Newcastle, who were not so long ago battling it out...
Some might say posting a video is a lazy way to blog, because one cannot be bothered to write words. In a sense, this is sometimes true. But in this...
While on my rounds as a part time delivery driver, I found myself in the middle of an estate in Leigh, faced by a rather large field littered, not with...
The penalty shoot-out is a lottery of football. It’s even more so in rugby. Last week saw the Heineken Cup Semi Final between Cardiff and Leicester decided by a rarity...
All the talk at this end of the season is the big four. Who is going for the title, who is still in with a hunt in Europe. But spare...
Rugby league has had its fair share of missed opportunities, and maybe the table-top game Subbuteo was one of them. Subbuteo Rugby was a game of complexities and confusion. There...
With ice hockey being a minority sport in the UK, there are a number of ways the Elite League and the clubs try to make extra money. One is by...
Many years before I discovered the wonders of blogging, I started writing a short story about the memories I had from playing football as a junior. I played junior football...
Formula 1 just gets more extraordinary. Jenson Button made it two wins out of two in Malaysia after a fascinating race which was ended after 31 laps due to extreme...

James Gordon is a sports media professional, commentator and football club director. MD of JDG Media, providing media management services to sports organisations, and founder/former editor of Love Rugby League. Read more...