Month: July 2019

Glorious Goodwood (officially called the Qatar Goodwood Festival) is a top class flat racing meeting held every year in mid-summer. Many of the very best horses, jockeys and trainers will make their way to the West Sussex course for the five day meeting. Racing fans are always promised excellent action at Glorious Goodwood whilst punters […]

Phil Taylor achieved an incredible amount during his darting career. He won pretty much everything there was to win but saved his very best for the biggest events of all. Taylor was widely known as the 16-time champion of the world but he had an equally impressive record in the World Matchplay. For many darts […]

After 68 years of touring some of the very best links golf courses in England and Scotland, the Open Championship finally returns to Northern Ireland this week. The 2019 edition of this most famous of golf tournaments is taking place at a rejuvenated Royal Portrush. Set on the North Atlantic coast, the Dunluce Course has […]

The British Grand Prix is one of the country’s premier sporting events. After initially switching between various race tracks, the race eventually found its long term and exclusive home in Silverstone. This year’s British Grand Prix is the 70th edition on the Formula 1 schedule. For a long time it looked as though celebrations for […]

Australia knew that they were facing a derby match in the Cricket World Cup semi-final whatever happened in their final group stage match. Win against South Africa and they’d top the group to set up a match with New Zealand. Lose and they’d face England. As it turned out, South Africa won the last group […]

For the second year in a row, an English World Cup adventure ended in heartbreak at the semi-final stage. Phil Neville said that he could not fault the effort of his players as they attempted to reach the Women’s World Cup final for the first time and the Lionesses did come close to knocking out […]

The British summer has begun at just the right time. The temperature approached 34o in South West London over the weekend as the world’s best tennis players converged on Wimbledon for the third Grand Slam of the year. Centre Court at Wimbledon is arguably the grandest stage in all of tennis. The winner of both […]