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Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport  @davidjdewinter The Old Spotted Dog Ground in Forest Gate - home to Clapton FC since 1888.  This dilapidated ground is real grassroots football with only the most basic facilities.  You won’t find any prawn sandwiches or executive boxes here.  This is a football experience for the purist.  Despite being only a mile away from West Ham’s Boleyn Ground the two clubs couldn’t be further apart.  In recent seasons, Clapton,...

Sport News 24/7 By Rob McHugh  @mchughr  @TLE_Sport On the 10th of October 2015, Manchester will officially become a Rugby city, with the Etihad Stadium playing host to England and Uruguay in the 2015 Rugby World Cup, and Old Trafford welcoming the best two teams in English Rugby League for the First Utility Super League Grand Final.  Leeds Rhinos are on course for a historic treble, having vanquished Hull KR 50-0 in the Challenge Cup final at Wembley in August,...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter  @TLE_Sport It’s an international weekend so most football fans (myself included) will be watching England face the might of Estonia at Wembley on Friday night.  But what are football fans to do on Saturday?  There are no Premier League or Championship fixtures this weekend and Wales’ trip to Bosnia & Herzegovina doesn’t kick-off until 7.45pm.  That’s a whole Saturday afternoon without football, right?  Wrong.  It’s national non-league day this...

Sport News 24/7 By Jack Peat, TLE Editor  Non-League Day has rolled around again giving you the chance to invest the crumpled ten bob note lying in your pocket on something more worthwhile than two pints of Fosters and a packet of pork scratchings in your local battle cruiser while watching mediocre celebrity wannabes prance around a pitch. And this year there’s an added incentive: All other sport is positively shit right now. The England Rugby Team have been unceremoniously...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter  @TLE_Sport It was a tame draw in the Merseyside derby at the weekend that finally convinced JW Henry to dispense with Brendan Rodgers’ services as Liverpool manager.  Derbies can define a manager’s reign and despite having a fairly good record against Everton, there was not enough on show at Goodison Park for Liverpool’s owners to continue with Rodgers at the helm.  In truth, the writing was always on the...

Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter It wasn’t supposed to end like that.  On Saturday morning most experts suggested that a combination of superior forward play, home advantage and sheer desperation would see England defeat Australia.  The Guardian asked 6 of its columnists, including Eddie Butler and Graham Henry, for their prediction.  Every single one, rather embarrassingly, picked England to win, a ratio that looked questionable at the time, and bizarre with hindsight. There will be consequences, I am...

By Joe Peat It’s one of those times of year when I eagerly await the postman. It’s not my birthday and it certainly isn't Christmas, but the week the Virgin London Marathon ballot magazines are sent out. The six month wait is finally over and my hopes to run arguably the most iconic marathon in the World are at their peak. Unfortunately, once again, I am disappointed. This shouldn't come as a surprise. This year 247,069 people applied for the...

Sport News 24/7 By Sean Simara  @Sean_FootyMad  @TLE_Sport This Sunday Wembley Stadium hosts the first of the 2015 International Series NFL games as the Miami Dolphins take on the New York Jets.  This is an AFC East divisional battle which will see the two Ryans, Tannehill (Dolphins QB) and Fitzpatrick (Jets QB) go head to head. View image | gettyimages.com Miami are 1-2 and come into the game off the back of a defeat to the Buffalo Bills 41-14.  The...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport  @davidjdewinter World Cups.  They’re meant to be festivals of sport, celebrating all that is good about top-level competition.  Sometimes they’re dreadfully disappointing (Italia 90 was rubbish as a spectacle) and sometimes they exceed everyone’s wildest dreams (RWC 2003, if just for the New Zealand v Wales match). So how is England 2015 faring? Pretty good.  On the whole, the rugby has been entertaining, with some compelling fixtures (England v...