Title holders Manchester City and five-time winners Barcelona have maintained their perfect start to the Champions League. City prevailed 3-1 at Switzerland’s Young Boys thanks to a double from goal-machine Erling Haaland after Manuel Akanji’s opener. They top Group G ahead of RB Leipzig who beat Crvena Zvezda by the same score. Barca won 2-1 […]
Top 5 Mexican Grand Prix classics: Thrilling finishes, epic duels but a trophy-free zone for Aussie drivers
It’s time to once again go back in the Formula 1 vault and go over five classic races ahead of the next round of the championship. This weekend we head to Mexico, for the 23rd running of the Mexican Grand Prix. First held as a World Championship race in 1963, the race has appeared and […]
The Roar’s A-League Men tips and predictions: Round 2
The opening round of A-League tips I submitted to the Roar were abysmal. However, my level of tipping hopelessness to start the season was easily conquered by the utterly disgraceful performances put forward by the other panel members, and the flailing voice of the people. Only the Reds’ triumph at Coopers on Friday registered a […]
SPIRO ZAVOS: England’s bully boy, no rugby display against Boks is the game they play in hell. Now for the salvation
The Rugby World Cup trophy commemorates William Webb Ellis, the Rugby school lad who was supposed to have picked up the ball and run with it during a game on the Big Field in 1823. The point of World Rugby iconising Webb Ellis is to establish the truth that rugby must be a running and […]
World Rugby just shafted Samoa and Tonga – now is the time for the NRL to strike
Rugby league, as the much-quoted saying has it, has never missed an opportunity to to miss an opportunity. The sport’s history is littered with could-have-beens, and from the time that the nascent Rugby Football Union decided to waive their stringent anti-professionalism rules to keep Wales and Leicester in their sport onwards, the beneficiary has generally […]