tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77578862255588663262011-11-27T21:41:01.514ZA blog about SportTerrynoreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7757886225558866326.post-11051032836661514052010-03-16T15:37:00.002Z2010-03-16T15:39:26.824Z

But I'm afraid I'm going to have to call time on this blog. It was a nice idea but I have too many and don't know enough about other stuff for me to offer anything new. Ah well. It's a shame too because I really like the title. May bring it back at some point.

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As I type, Ronnie O Sullivan and Mark Selby are locked in an intense battle for the World Masters Final is taking place in front of a packed house at Wembley Arena. This tournament is already being regarded as a turning point for a sport that has, for many years, rested on its laurels.Back in the Seventies and Eighties, Snooker commanded audiences of tens of millions. Dennis Taylor’s famous black

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With the exception of a little vignette, you'll note that things have been a little quiet on this Blog. But that's OK since there are only two or three of you who can claim to be remotely regular readers and my comments section is hardly awash with impassioned pleas to be back with more barely insightful sports nonsense.Nevertheless, even in the face of pubic indifference and with my personal

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Hop!Angola v Mali - Opening match of the Africa Cup Of NationsTwo goals by Flavio in the first half sends the home fans into rapture. The Africa Cup of Nations is underway and we can start talking about matters on the pitch.Hop!Dave Chisnall v Martin Adams - 2010 BDO World Darts Championship FinalAdams nervously takes out a double six to go 6-4 up in sets against the outsider Chisnall. He only

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7757886225558866326.post-62627300128110766632009-09-29T17:22:00.005+01:002009-09-29T17:37:34.671+01:00

So ice hockey then... hockey on ice. Like Holiday On Ice only its not a holiday. Come to that Holiday On Ice is not like a holiday either. It's a cavalcade of nauseating street theatre by failed ice dancers. So in fact, hockey on ice (or ice hockey if you will) is nothing like watching a bunch of washed up skaters indulging third rate performance art. At least I'd never tell that to an ice hockey

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7757886225558866326.post-89330323560614457452009-08-27T16:08:00.000+01:002009-08-27T16:08:37.697+01:00

I frequently find myself defending cycling to people I know who don't follow the sport. Common gripes are "it's too long", "it's confusing" and "I hate men in Lycra". To be honest, as a relatively new cycling fan, I don't always have that much of an argument to make against this sort of criticism aside from simply shrugging my shoulders and saying "It works for me." However, on the issue of

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7757886225558866326.post-57657955397751775542009-08-16T23:37:00.006+01:002009-08-24T16:11:04.690+01:00

My apologies for not updating this blog recently. I've been understandably caught up with the start of the football season. Briefly however, let us pause to acknowledge the extraordinary achievement of Usain Bolt this evening at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin. Rarely has an athlete forced that World to look on in astonishment as Bolt has this night. His 100 metre dash smashed the

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7757886225558866326.post-18035182107672572082009-08-03T15:15:00.004+01:002009-08-24T13:27:32.304+01:00

The city of Jyvaskyla lies 270 kilometres north of Helsinki. Every year it holds the WRC Rally Finland and unlike most other World Rally venues, gives itself to the Rally lock stock and barrel. Rallying is a national past time in Finland and Rally Finland is probably the biggest event in the WRC calender. Perhaps it does not have the prestige of Monte Carlo (which has now moved over to the rival

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7757886225558866326.post-75021032721794677492009-07-26T20:09:00.014+01:002009-07-26T21:56:12.570+01:00

Before tonight's PDC World Matchplay Darts Final, Phil "The Power" Taylor predicted that he would score two nine dart finishes during the game. The idea is statistically ludicrous. Rarely does a nine darter take place throughout the course of an entire tournament let alone two in one game and indeed, there were no nine darters. Nevertheless, Taylor beat his opponent Terry Jenkins comfortably.

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7757886225558866326.post-11629460723884374252009-07-25T16:57:00.004+01:002009-07-26T23:03:03.039+01:00

Tomorrow, the sprinters take the limelight in the final stage to Paris. While all eyes will be on Mark Cavendish to see if he can take that sixth Tour stage win and realise his dream to be the first to cross the line at the Champs-Élysées.However it was today's penultimate stage that effectively settled the General Classification on the steep inclines of the highest mountain stage of the Tour,

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7757886225558866326.post-46156955345368751142009-07-19T14:49:00.015+01:002009-07-19T16:12:57.734+01:00

Earlier in the year Bob Mills, while appearing on the excellent BBC Radio 5 panel show Fighting Talk, referred to attending a PDC Darts match as like "intruding on a Romany Gypsy's wedding party". He was of course referring to the crowd and having been to a couple of matches myself I had to laugh in spite of the extremely crude stereotype. The crowd at Darts matches, are rowdy, drunken, coarse

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7757886225558866326.post-8671853283570187512009-07-15T23:28:00.009+01:002009-07-18T18:53:43.863+01:00

Andrew Flintoff's retirement from test cricket was perhaps not the biggest surprise to those close to him or for those who like to consider themselves in the know. There were certainly enough pundits willing to stroke their chins in front of the Sky Sports News cameras calmly stating that this was on the cards and if anything was a surprise it was the timing. If it did come as a shock, they did

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7757886225558866326.post-9322563573124166012009-07-10T00:01:00.003+01:002009-07-25T16:10:23.644+01:00

The crucial thing is not to look back. Keep pushing. Try to ignore the lactic acid building up in your legs. Refuse to acknowledge the sweat dripping from your brow, and the pounding heart as your lungs desperately suck up as much air to keep going. Fight back the rising panic as you feeling lungs burning into nothingness. Push. Push hard and keep going 'till you see the end in sight then put

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7757886225558866326.post-18992167216219711352009-07-07T21:10:00.006+01:002009-07-07T21:33:50.552+01:00

Top Gear is a polarizing TV show on the BBC. Many people object to Jeremy Clarkson with his gung ho anti-environmentalism, mawkish gurning facade and unadulterated middle-Englishness. Others believe that the programme is not public service broadcasting as it is unrealistic un-aspirational car porn. Some just think it is a colossal waste of money (the budget is £400,000 per episode).However,

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So the Tennis loving nation can get back in its box. Andy Murray is out of Wimbledon and the pandemonium can finally come to and end.I, like probably most people from the British Isles, only really equate Tennis with Wimbledon. The game over here has become an upper middle class ghetto with private clubs where the Tennis is as much a social activity as it is a sport. If you travel through the

Terrynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7757886225558866326.post-71023944801201888152009-07-01T22:35:00.008+01:002009-07-02T00:26:28.462+01:00

I consider myself to be a sporting liberal. That is I don't take any issue with any sports that are dangerous to the point of foolhardiness. As long as people are not exploited and as long as no innocents are harmed (including animals) people can do unto themselves and others pretty much whatever they wish in the name of sport. It was this attitude that drew me to Mixed Marshall Arts or MMA on

Terrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7757886225558866326.post-1663519079203825992009-06-30T22:31:00.005+01:002009-08-03T13:27:10.215+01:00

to my new Sports blog.The purpose of this site is to celebrate the weird and wonderful world of sport. It's diversity, intensity and absurdity. You may be familiar with my work on SPAOTP and The Onion Bag. I hope to provide some expression of my passion for other sports besides Football. The sports I love, the sports I hate, the sports I find weird and strange.On this blog you can expect to read

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