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Will you be my mate, Jimmy Bullard?
Sport News 24/7 By Lars Thomesen @LarsHT @TLE_Sport Footballers today get their fair share of bad press. Tabloids feast on their tiniest mistakes and as soon as something is a little bit edgy, it will be on the back pages the next morning. Innocent stories such as Raheem Sterling’s alleged five kids at the age of 19 (he really just has one kid) and a track-suited-up Adnan Januzaj taking a WAG wannabe to Nando’s on their first date both created...
Autumn Internationals Review
Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport @davidjdewinter The curtain has come down on a very entertaining month of Autumn Internationals and the Northern hemisphere nations acquitted themselves surprisingly well against their southern counterparts. Now admittedly there were a lot of tired bodies amongst the SANZAR nations who were coming off the end of a long season whilst the home nations are bang in the middle of theirs, but nevertheless, victories against these giants of rugby...
Should Chess be considered a sport?
Sport News 24/7 By Lars Thomesen @LarsHT @TLE_Sport This November the World Chess Championship was held in Sochi, Russia. For the second year running Norwegian Magnus Carlsen was crowned World Champion, but on home soil, the 23-year-old’s achievements are debatable on a sporting level. In Norway, chess is not recognised as a sport by the official federation. It has become an undefined game, even if Norwegian sports journalists voted Carlsen as Norway’s 2013 Sportsman of the Year. That was the...
Who’s the Regular Season MVP so far?
Sport News 24/7 By Sean Simara @Sean_FootyMad @TLE_Sport As we enter week 13 of the NFL season here’s a look at the contenders for the regular season MVP award. Tom Brady - QB New England Patriots Brady may not have as good targets as other elite QB’s in the NFL but he’s showing why he’s a winner this season; top of the AFC East, 24 Touchdown passes with only 5 interceptions. Things are going well in Foxborough. Aaron Rodgers -...
Raising Arizona
Sport News 24/7 By Dan McLaughlin @McGloogly @gridirongents @TLE_Sport Whilst it feels like every week there’s a different team that could be a potential Super Bowl contenders, one team is constantly overlooked. Despite constant chatter about how good the Broncos are or how likely a Patriots vs Packers Super Bowl is, there is only one team that is sitting on a 9-1 record this Season and in doing so are defying nearly everyone's rankings, despite a ridiculous injury list. So...
Aaron Rodgers – the best QB in the NFL?
Sport News 24/7 By Sean Simara @Sean_FootyMad @TLE_Sport The quarterback role in the NFL is the marquee position. He is the heartbeat of the team, the talisman. All the players and fans look towards him. This NFL season hasn’t been a great one for quarterbacks but the man from Green Bay, Aaron Rodgers, has been a shining light thus far. The Packers are currently 7-3 and are tied at the top of the NFC North with Detroit Lions. The Packers...
FIFA’s Latest Corruption the Final Straw
Sport News 24/7 By Matthew Biggin @MatthewBiggin @TLE_Sport So, it’s been almost a week since Michael Garcia, the gentleman assigned to examine the report clearing FIFA of any wrong doing surrounding the 2018 Russia World Cup and the farcical Qatar 2022 World Cup bids has found out, how to put this delicately…. The whole thing was a total crock. Well, colour me shocked. Seriously though, did anyone on the planet actually believe that report when it came out? FIFA have...
Has Formula One brought itself into disrepute?
Sport News 24/7 By Charles Briscoe-Knight @TLE_Sport Imagine this situation: We come to the last lap of the last race in an excruciatingly long Grand Prix season, and Nico Rosberg leads Lewis Hamilton by the length of spark plug. Suddenly Rosberg jinks to the left and Hamilton does the opposite. Rosberg locks up in a blue cloud of Pirelli rubber and spins off, Hamilton clips his rear wing, knocks off his own nose/wing combination which locks underneath his car rendering...
Why isn’t Lewis Hamilton a national hero?
Sport News 24/7 By Ronan George Seven days from today Britain could have a new world champion. Someone acclaimed in their field and demonstrably better than their rivals. But beyond fans of the minority though wealthy sport, the nation will probably shrug and carry on. Barring human error or technological failure, Britain’s Lewis Hamilton should finish in the first or second place he requires at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday, to claim a second Formula One world title....