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A season of flaws…

As football fans worldwide prepare themselves for the biggest competition of all, I feel myself somewhat disappointed as I reflect on the recently completed Premier League season. Though we have seen Chelsea prevent Manchester United’s fourth successive title, Tottenham Hotspur’s break into the supposed ‘Big Four’ and Fulham reach the Europa League final, as I [...]
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The World Cup – Killjoy? Only until kick-off

After months of qualifiers, rainy evenings at the Reebok and shitting ourselves every time Rooney looks a bit queasy, South Africa 2010 is all but upon us. Tickets have been booked, pubs readied and 3D-glasses dusted-off for the first time since 1984, and I, for one, am more than a little bit excited. This joyous [...]
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And the award goes to…

After a season of highs and lows from across the sports, Impact looks at the ‘alternative’ awards for 2009/10.
The ‘It wouldn’t happen in Rugby’ Award
Didier Drogba
You know the type: they always moan about how overpaid footballers are and compare their prima donna attitudes to that of their ‘gentlemen’ rugby players. You try to defend the [...]
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Shooting the High Horse

As I’ve mentioned in this writing space before, this season has been my first as a Championship football fan for over a decade, and thanks to some pretty dire results at the Riverside this season, that doesn’t look like changing for Middlesborough in the foreseeable future. To be honest, another season in the second-tier doesn’t [...]
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Time to go

Should Martin Johnson call time on his England managerial career after another fruitless Six Nations campaign?
I’m writing this article on Sunday evening, 24 hours after England’s defeat in Paris, he is still in the job… So, I am going to write it anyway secure in the knowledge that, in all likelihood, Johnson will still be [...]

Rivalries… Where would we be without them?

Rivalries, where would sport be without them? The recent varsity series saw Nottingham University pitted up against their fierce ex-polytechnic rivals, with the drama unfolding against the familiar chorus of “your Dad works for my Dad” and “I would rather be a poly than a c*nt.” Whether the swapping of (mostly) good natured [...]

January Transfer Window Report: Has the Credit Crunch Finally Reached the Premiership?

It seems that football’s version of Never-Never Land, the Promised Land for clubs far and wide, has finally felt the bite of the economic recession. While a pay cut for Wayne Rooney or Frank Lampard is unlikely, this year’s January Transfer Window saw an unmistakable trend of belt-tightening throughout the league. The £30 million spent [...]
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Beat the Cheats

Sport is in danger of losing its soul as acts of calculated cheating become more and more common.
2009 was the year when cheating finally triumphed over fair play. The greatest sporting debate was settled. Cheating seduced the sporting world and tossed fair play, honesty and sportsmanship on to the trash heap. It’s official: cheating [...]

Ignorance is not bliss: A look into racism in sport

No-one would claim that Barack Obama’s triumphant election to the White House little over a year ago represented a magical solution to finally end racism in America, and no-one assumes that when the self-proclaimed Greatest Show on Earth roles into South Africa this year, racism will suddenly vanish from sport. Don’t get me wrong, a [...]

The Other Side of Town

Let me first of all set the scene: Freshers’ week; EQ nightclub; dodgy student DJ is shouting ‘Students of Nottingham University are the heart and soul of this city!’
Well, not really. Two weeks into my first term, on being asked by a friend who was planning to visit from a city based university how to [...]
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