Category: Sport

Getting good at baseball takes time and dedication. The tips and strategies to be successful are also necessary. The following advice will help you as you learn how to find your way onto the field as either a batter or a fielder. If you want to improve your batting average, don’t try to hit the […]

Scotland ended their 23-year wait to play in a major men’s tournament after beating Serbia on penalties in Belgrade and sealing their spot at Euro 2020. David Marshall was the hero for Scotland, who have not featured at a men’s World Cup or European Championship since 1998, when he saved brilliantly from Aleksandar Mitrovic to […]

With 25 minutes gone at Wembley Stadium, and with England and Ireland still goalless, there was a lovely moment of pure, uncut Jack Grealish. England had taken time to develop an attack on the right as Ireland fell into a low white-shirted block. Grealish, switching flanks, had been heavily involved, working hard to find the […]

There has rightly been outrage and confusion about the suspension of girls’ academies and regional talent clubs during the latest lockdown while at the same time boys in Premier League and Football League clubs’ pathways can continue to train. There should never be a situation where a young female footballer is being told she cannot […]

Ian Baraclough was at his lowest ebb but managerial duties demanded he put aside personal anguish for the greater good following Northern Ireland’s play-off final defeat to Slovakia. “They came so close to getting to the World Cup two years ago and now so close to getting to a second consecutive Euros,” he said in […]

Just two years on from their relaunch, Manchester United sit unbeaten at the top of the Women’s Super League and are arguably favourites as they head into Saturday’s Manchester derby, one of the showpiece matches of Women’s Football Weekend. The journey has been meteoric and, in many respects, the club are doing their best to […]

Meticulous coach has long been admired by some of the best managers in the game and Euro 2020 progress is well merited Rightly or wrongly, people are often judged by the friends they keep. Given that football management is frequently as much about contacts and personal connections as coaching ability, it is perhaps not entirely […]

Gareth Southgate sorely hopes to experience an England v Scotland game at next summer’s European Championship with fans inside Wembley and it will therefore please him that the Football Association is exploring creative solutions aimed at achieving just that. There are no certainties in the Covid era, not least about when supporters will be able […]