Sport

By Noy Shani  @NoyShani  @TLE_Sport This year is set to be a year of key sporting events.  The Cricket World Cup is lurking around the corner, England is hosting the prestigious Rugby World Cup in September and London will host the ninth and final round of the FIA Formula E 2014/2015 series on June 27th. The proposed location for the race, Battersea Park, has already managed to upset many people despite accruing a lot of supporters at the same time....

Sport News 24/7 By David Thomson  Normally at this time of year with Christmas and New Year being over the pantomime season is starting to wrap up. The biggest pantomime this season is happening in Scotland – no it is not Cinderella that stars John Barrowman and the Krankies at the Scottish Exibihition Centre in Glasgow - it is happening at Ibrox Stadium, the home of Glasgow Rangers. This pantomime is going to be a classic. You have the current...

Sport News 24/7 By Sean Simara  @Sean_FootyMad  @TLE_Sport I predicted four out of four results from a very entertaining NFL Play-off weekend.  However there's only one place to start my review. The catch that wasn’t a catch and the drama and suspense that follows the Cowboys was there for all to see at Lambeau Field as Dallas lost out to a harsh ruling.  They believe they were robbed, but where they? The play in question was on 4th and 2, a...

Sports Editor David de Winter and regular columnist Richard de Winter take a look at the Ballon d'Or result, the transfer window, England's chances at the Cricket World Cup and the first Tennis Grand Slam of the year, the Australian Open. https://soundcloud.com/the-london-economic/tle-sports-podcast-130115

Sport News 24/7 By Rob McHugh  @mchughr  @TLE_Sport Several clubs who were mainstays in the top flight at the end of the 20th Century have had a millennium to forget, and few have had a worse time than Sheffield Wednesday.  League Cup champions in 1991, and defeated League and FA Cup finalists in 1993, the Owls entered the 90's with real reasons to believe the club could challenge for top honours on a consistent basis.  But this hope fell away...

By Will Herrmann Writing about Ched Evans, his past misdemeanours and his future employment in a week that’s seen the tragic unfoldings  in Paris seems wrong.  However, the huge amount of bile that I keep being bombarded with on both mainstream and social media has driven me to try and make the most obvious point about the case. Ched Evans has been convicted as a rapist.  As a fully signed up member of the democracy that we live in and,...

Sport News 24/7 By Dan McLaughlin  @McGloogly  @gridirongents  @TLE_Sport I wasn't going to do this.  I really wasn't.  But I went and opened my big mouth on the Gridiron Gentlemen Podcast about what I believe happened.  Well I say "what I believe happened", but in actual fact I think made a bad job of putting my point across, so here I am trying to put my point across.  It’s actually a good chance to look at one of the biggest...

Sport News 24/7 By Alex Dinsdale  @dinsadelic  @TLE_Sport The managerial instability around Vicarage Road hit the headlines some months ago, with the ridiculous statistic of four head coaches in thirty-seven days making a mockery of Watford’s promising start to the season.  Having lost only twice, Watford were on course for the promotion they had only just missed out on in Gianfranco Zola’s first season. The appointment of ex-Barcelona player and Brighton boss, Oscar Garcia, was met with great optimism but...

By Jack Peat, Editor of The London Economic Fanatically 'anti' fans are making non-league clubs in London increasingly political. London is no stranger to the inexplicable mix of politics and football. Class warfare, religious differences, industrial disputes; the terraces of London’s football clubs are the people’s benches of Westminster. But of late, the once concealed relationship between football and politics has come to the fore in the shape of left-leaning Ultra fans. Ultras are typically the type of sports fans...