365 Sporting Days
Sharing a passion for Sport!
An opportunity to watch county cricket at one of my favourite international grounds was too good not to take, cue 3 days at Trent Bridge! It seems crazy that it’s only Mid-May and we’re into the 6th match fro most teams, Round 7 on my watch as not all teams have played each time, it’s all very confusing! There were […]
The final home game of the Premiership season, Semi-Final not withstanding, saw London Irish as Saracens opposition. Saracens had lost 4 games this season and London Irish were one of the winning teams. They had Adam Coleman red carded after 15 minutes then Saracens lost Ben Earl to a red card on 29 minutes. Earl’s red card was overturned by […]
A much needed visit to Scotland to visit family means I’m watching this round from afar, and in fact on a train as I start to write. Disappointed to be missing Jimmy v Sir Alastair but hoping for an Essex win, any photos will be Essex focused without the ability to take more. The weather hasn’t been as kind for […]
I’m not too sure how I feel about the fact that there was a power cut at my house today; so no replay to watch! Annoying really! And no easy catch up option as it was on BT Sport. Oh well, from a few highlights and memory it will be! As I was walking the ground I overheard 2 women […]
My live sports watching started in the late 70’s at White Hart Lane where I stood on the Shelf, the new Spurs Stadium is pretty much on the same site, but is now probably the best stadium in this country if not the whole of Europe. My seat was close to the action and virtually on the half way line, […]
The fall out from the Owen Farrell tackle in Gloucester kept many busy on social media as far too many chose to throw hate both his and, by way of a change, Saracens way. All Disciplinary Hearings Findings are available online and several snippets were shared on social media. I thought it might be interesting to share the ‘Findings of […]
I had planned to write up every Saracens match this season, but I just couldn’t bring myself to re-watch their match against London Irish, they got exactly what they deserved from that match, NOTHING. Irish were deserved winners as Saracens failed to score with a 2 man advantage at one point. The only good news to have come post match […]
What could be better than a sunny day, A Premiership Semi-Final and a local derby at that! It was definitely cricket weather for this match up. Quins fans travelled across London in numbers, it was great to catch up with some of my avid Quins fan friends. Harlequins had proved the naysayers wrong and backed up their Premiership Final win […]
An article I wrote in 2020, I thought it needed a refresh on the weekend Italy went to Cardiff and beat Wales, the 2021 Champions, in the dying moments. After so many calls over this 2022 tournament to exclude Italy, one of the shareholders in the company that is the Six Nations, there is unbridled joy at this win, their […]
It’s been a torrid few weeks to be an England and Saracens fan, a time that started with such hope saw a crowd of us rock up at Allianz Park at 8am on a Saturday morning to watch England win the World Cup. That didn’t quite go to plan as South Africa pretty much did to us what we did to the All Blacks, perhaps Warren Gatland was right and England had put in their all in that astonishing semi-final. Losing Kyle Sinckler after 2 minutes didn’t help. But the match literally personified the rugby saying – The forwards decide who’s going to win the match, the backs by how much – England were out muscled from minute one. Although […]
This was one I couldn’t write while I was watching, the long awaited match between Pakistan and India. I drove up from Taunton through torrential rain, heading to Manchester a place renowned for rain at the best of times! Saturday evening was spent with some of my Stani Army friends at a restaurant in Wilmslow, Lal Qila followed by ice […]
After 20 matches were played Saracens had won 15 and Sale Sharks 14, to finish top and second respectively. It feels right that they contested the showpiece final. This would be the best attack against the best defence, Saracens scored 622 points (conceding 513) Sales Sharks conceded 35 (scored 576). The idea that Saracens still play boring rugby is proven […]
Wheelchair Premiership Launches This weekend sees the inaugural Wheelchair Premiership kick off on Sunday 28th May at The University of Edinburgh’s Sport & Exercise Pleasance Sports Complex & Gym. The season will be made up of four rounds with each team playing two fixtures across each round with rounds being hosted by each club. Dundee Dragons will be joined by […]
An opportunity to watch county cricket at one of my favourite international grounds was too good not to take, cue 3 days at Trent Bridge! It seems crazy that it’s only Mid-May and we’re into the 6th match fro most teams, Round 7 on my watch as not all teams have played each time, it’s all very confusing! There were […]
Round 6 saw some semi-decent weather, but there were still plenty of drawn games, I was due to go to Edgbaston in Day 1 but drove through torrential rain so didn’t see my team bowled out for cheap. Day 1 was in general a good day to bowl! That was a some on the weather. With the Ashes now only […]
Results between these 2 teams had been mixed this season to say there least. The October game was a Premiership Rugby Cup game, the first Premeirship match an absolute thriller, Saracens scored a 1st minute penalty then were behind until the 77th minute, scoring 4 tries in the last 20 minutes. One of several ‘daylight robbery’ matches at Stonex this […]
The second of three bank holidays in May saw the round of county cricket starting on the Thursday, when the sensible option would have been to start on the Friday and continue into the Monday. The same thing happened on Bank Holiday 1 and we have no County Cricket over weekend 3. That, in my mind is a bit daft! […]
What a difference decent weather makes! This week saw just 2 games in Division 1 and 3 in Division 2, with 3 of those 5 games being won on Day 3 of the 4 days. As I’m starting to write this at 4:30 on Day 4, the match in Bristol is rain affected. I considered last week that the teams […]
The final home game of the Premiership season, Semi-Final not withstanding, saw London Irish as Saracens opposition. Saracens had lost 4 games this season and London Irish were one of the winning teams. They had Adam Coleman red carded after 15 minutes then Saracens lost Ben Earl to a red card on 29 minutes. Earl’s red card was overturned by […]
A stupidly busy Thursday, with a play in London and a show in Southend means I’m coming to this at the end of Day 2 – Friday was a busy one too! Most games were rain affected on Day 1 and indeed some on Day 2 as well. THE performer of the round did his thing on Day 1 however! […]
A much needed visit to Scotland to visit family means I’m watching this round from afar, and in fact on a train as I start to write. Disappointed to be missing Jimmy v Sir Alastair but hoping for an Essex win, any photos will be Essex focused without the ability to take more. The weather hasn’t been as kind for […]
After what felt like a long Winter the new County Cricket season is finally here! Coinciding with the Easter holidays the timing along with the weather from Day 2 at least, around the country was pretty good. I sat in 4 layers at the first game last season and was still cold. Sun Cream wouldn’t have gone amiss at Lord’s […]
I’m not too sure how I feel about the fact that there was a power cut at my house today; so no replay to watch! Annoying really! And no easy catch up option as it was on BT Sport. Oh well, from a few highlights and memory it will be! As I was walking the ground I overheard 2 women […]
My daughter’s lived in Paris for over 10 years now and somehow there’s often a rugby match on when I visit. The first year she was there I went to the Top 14 Final on my own, that was 2013 and I saw Castres beat Toulon, In 2014 I went on my own again to watch England play, Gael Fickou […]
My live sports watching started in the late 70’s at White Hart Lane where I stood on the Shelf, the new Spurs Stadium is pretty much on the same site, but is now probably the best stadium in this country if not the whole of Europe. My seat was close to the action and virtually on the half way line, […]
It’s been a while since I’ve watched Saracens Women live and wow, what a difference having the World Cup players back makes! Early season home results had a couple of disappointments as well as some high scores! That all added up to 3rd place for Saracens, with Exeter Chiefs topping the table and Gloucester Hartpury sitting in second. Saracens play DMP Sharks away on March 11th, the competition then takes a break for the 6 Nations; before a hugely important game for Saracens on May 13th when they play Exeter at home. There are 10 teams in the league and no European games at present, the Top 4 teams will play off on June 10th/11th with the Final to be […]
I’ve had a strange relationship with this England Rugby team since I saw them lift the trophy for the Grand Slam in Paris in 2016, I was ecstatic then, as I was when they beat the mighty All Blacks in the World Cup semi-final in 2019. I was in a bar in Reims in France funnily enough and it was […]
365 Sporting Days 