Girls Who Race: Advice From the Frontline.

Something that I was left wondering after my last article was this: are women in motorcycle racing seen as someone that needs to be ‘protected’? For every successful female rider, there are hundreds of girls who are just dipping their toes into the shark infested pool of motorcycling. I have taken it upon myself to…

Girls Who Race: The Who’s Who of Female Motorcycle Racers.

Female motorcycle racers are very few and far between. Over the years there have been many successful ones, but they all fly under the radar. To date, one of the most notable female names in racing is Maria Costello. She was the first woman ever to grace the podium at the Manx GP in 2005…

Twenty Years Of Arsene Wenger

Yesterday was the twentieth anniversary of one of English football’s stalwarts. From the first successful foreign manager in England to a possible obstacle to Arsenal’s evolution, Arsene Wenger’s career has changed immensely but he will always have a legacy.   Arsene Wenger entered Highbury as a fresh new face and became the clubs most successful…

Big Sam’s Revolution?

Sam Allardyce’s reign over the English Lions has begun with, well… a 1-0 win over Slovakia. Doesn’t sound too impressive and it wasn’t. But Can we really judge him on this performance? After all, he’s only had a few weeks to get his ideas in place and get the team on board, so should we judge him…

The Most Unpredictable Title-Race Ever?

The top four is usually the easier portion of the table to predict each year. Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea and Manchester City have all been the big names up there for the past several years (excluding last year of course). But this year it seems as if there’s less of a top four and more…

Euro 2016 Review

So it’s over. The teams have all gone home, some in jubilation, some in despair. But what have we learned? We’ve learnt that Cristiano Ronaldo will probably become a manager who screams at his players and pushes them back onto the pitch when they’re injured. Iceland’s thunder-clap will become a fashion around the footballing world….

England’s Worst Defeat Ever?

So once again the curtain has fallen on another major competition for the three lions, more with a whimper than a roar. Should we have seen this coming? Perhaps, when a team manages to only win one game out of three in a group of Russia, Slovakia and Wales the alarm bells should have been…

Premier League Review Part 2

NEWCASTLE What a nightmare. A team with so much history brought down by a bitter rival. Newcastle were poor for much of the season and deserved to go down, but sadly for them it was by the hand of Sunderland. Steve McClaren had no answers at the start of the season other than pulling positives…

The Premier League Review Part 1

So it’s over, twenty teams have played all of their thirty-eight games and now there is calm. The celebrations have ended, the commiseration endured and the managers done away with. So now it’s time to reflect on a Premier League seasons that some will say has been the best in a decade. In the next parts…

Lorenzo is the man at Le Mans!

An easy victory for Jorge Lorenzo this weekend as he started and finished in first place. After a cracking start from the Mallorcan, he led the race with ease and finished ten seconds ahead of his teammate and biggest rival Valentino Rossi. Lorenzo’s win puts him five points ahead of fellow Spaniard Marc Marquez, who…