By Nick Harris 26 April 2010 Wayne Rooney won the PFA Footballer of the Year award last night after being voted the outstanding player of the 2009-10 season in England by his peers. After the 24-year-old striker was handed his award by Jimmy Greaves, he said he would be fit and ready to play in […]

By Paul Marshall and Nick Harris 21 March 2010 The exploits of the British runner William Sichel and his competitors in the current 1,000-mile race in Athens are extraordinary, but these “long distance” athletes are not products of the modern age alone. There was a time in the Victorian era when such races were staged […]

. SALLY ARSCOTT is a self-confessed “horsey girl” who’s ridden at Badminton, organised the Olympia International Horse Show and counts equestrian sports, racing in particular, as her abiding passion. But in the absence of a horse, then tennis, rugby and more recently ski cross fill the void. Sally lives in Gloucestershire, which is fantastic if […]

By Brian Sears 19 February 2010 Occasionally in this life as a statistician, you unearth a statistical gem so lovely that you want to pop it into your anorak pocket, go for a stroll around town in the splendid late-winter sunshine, and share it with everyone you meet. Today, dear readers, is such a day. […]

Tweet, tweet (most recent first) . . . . 29 April, 2pm UK time: Teenage tennis player Laura Robson gives her views on ‘bigot-gate’: “What a rookie error from Gordon Brown. HaHaa ;).” . 25 March, 5.15am UK time (evening US time, 24 March): Super star tennis player Andy Roddick’s wife – top model Brooklyn […]

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22 December 2009 It wasn’t so many decades ago (about five) that teams in the English football league would routinely play matches on Christmas Day, and then play the reverse match on Boxing Day. Whatever one thinks of packed modern schedules, they’re not like that now, although elsewhere in the world, the festive day has […]