• ECB Face Battle to Make England’s Faceless Cricketers Household Names

    Scrolling through news about the England cricket team the other week, I stumbled across an article by The Sun entitled ‘Who is Play to the Whistle Guest James Anderson?’ Well he’s only England’s all-time leading wicket taker and probably best ever bowler. Play to the Whistle is a light-hearted...
  • Trent hold on to win Women’s Football Varsity fixture

    The University of Nottingham (UoN) Women’s Football Team could not find a way past a stoic Nottingham Trent University defence as they lost their Varsity 2017 fixture 1-0. Trent’s Mallory Isley grabbed the only goal of the game with a 25-yard strike with 10 minutes to go in the...
  • Joy for UoN Canoe Polo as They Win Varsity Match in Style on Super Wednesday

    University of Nottingham’s (UoN) Canoe Polo team made it successive Varsity wins with a comprehensive 9-2 demolition of Nottingham Trent (NTU) at the pool during Super Wednesday. Poolside, it was clear that UoN were a class apart from start to finish; their finishing was notably deadly. Trent huffed and...
  • Varsity 2017 Preview: Canoe Polo

    University of Nottingham’s Canoe Polo team are eagerly anticipating Wednesday 29th March’s match, looking to replicate last year’s double-Varsity success that culminated with both the men’s and women’s teams coming out on top versus NTU. UoN have been warming up Varsity with some fantastic performances, as recently as last...
  • Obscene wages and wealth are killing lower league football

    English football’s lower league clubs are dying a slow death, but could soon be put out of their misery if television rights and wages continue to inflate. Take a walk down Sheepfoot Lane, in the once Victorian industrial powerhouse but now dejected and run down town of Oldham in...
  • Depression in Cricket: Symptomatic of its environment?

    As cricket fans, we all remember hearing the chilling news in late 2013 of Jonathan Trott’s mental struggles which had come to a head during the Ashes tour in Australia with him being sent home. Before him, one of the most talented batsman this country has ever produced, Marcus...
  • Kolpak exodus runs deep

    Concern over the future of South African cricket is growing in the midst of a shallowing of their player pool as a result of the mass exodus by fringe players, who have retired from international cricket in order to earn a lucrative Kolpak deal in the English county game....