There have often been players who have stood out as the best of a bad bunch. For many years, Steven Gerrard kept Liverpool involved in conversations around trophies seemingly by sheer force of will, whilst Wayne Rooney was easily Everton’s…

There was a time when greyhound racing was the most popular sport in the United Kingdom. At its height, millions of people would go to see the sport over the course of the year. In 1946, for example, more than…

Football is a simple enough game involving two teams of 11 players plus substitutes. The problem is, sometimes people like to try to reinvent it in order to make it more accessible for some or more exciting for others. That…

The battle for superiority between British and Irish horse racing trainers has one that has long been fought on the turf. Whilst the majority of casual pundits wouldn’t have a clue who was training the horses from one minute to…

Horse racing is a sport that those who love can become absolutely obsessed with. They will pour over the results of races for hours, looking for all sorts of information about what happened in the races that have already taken…