Sports Diary
by Patrick O’Connor
WHO cares who won Wimbledon or the big fight in Hamburg, a far more interesting sports champion emerged last week.
Step forward Paul Beech, otherwise known as ‘Predatoe.’
Sports Diary
by Patrick O’Connor
WHO cares who won Wimbledon or the big fight in Hamburg, a far more interesting sports champion emerged last week.
Step forward Paul Beech, otherwise known as ‘Predatoe.’
Sports Diary
by Patrick O’Connor
‘WHO are ya?’ is a popular football mantra, usually followed by ‘We are super…’, depending on which particular team you support.
But the 2012 Olympics has thrown up a particular challenge for those who like to chant.
Sports Diary
by Patrick O’Connor
THERE’S a new superhero in the sporting world – and he’s a horse!
The racing world is currently marvelling about the achievements of three year old colt Frankel who last week won the St James’s Palace Stakes at Ascot and has now finished first in all of his seven races.
Sports Diary
by Patrick O’Connor
LAST week it was Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton who had a very public tantrum, this week it was the turn of England cricketer Matt Prior to throw his dummy out of the pram.
Wicketkeeper Prior has apologised to a woman spectator at Lord’s after he smashed a window during the second Test against Sri Lanka.
Sports Diary
by Patrick O’Connor
THE British media is already getting its knickers in a twist over Andy Murray.
They got wildly excited when the country’s only genuine tennis star reached the semi-finals of the French Open but then sank back into the usual frenzy of over-analysis when he succumbed to Rafael Nadal.
RUGBY Union has never been a sport I particularly warmed to, mainly because I found it too stop-start and couldn’t fathomed out its rules.
It also has a quirky side to it. Take the decision of Saracens to toss a coin to decide whether Richard Wigglesworth or Neil de Kock would start at scrum-half for last Saturday’s Premiership final against Leicester.