In spite of some of the things life has thrown at me it's hard to find me without a smile on my face.I have 2 beautiful children and now 3 lovely grandsons, I love sport and writing about it; which I do at debsknigsport.com Here I want to share with you my thoughts on life, some sadness but hopefully a lot of happiness too. To show people that life can be wonderful even after tough times.
When I took early retirement I decided that I’d be watching even more sport and getting involved in charity where I could. I’m a Trustee of a local charity working with children, I do some work for Marie Curie, I try my best to spread the word of the good work carried out by The … More Wooden Spoon & Grangewood School
European Rugby is back! There’s something special about this competition, I try to watch as much of it as I can. That meant 2 games for me over this first weekend – Harlequins v La Rochelle followed by Northampton Saints v Saracens. I’m maybe an odd sports fan, I have my teams but I have … More Champions Cup Rugby – Week 1
I’ve been thinking long and hard about this, I watched a lot of cricket in 2017, I’m going to go month by month I saw so many top performances! This could well end up being more like a novel than an article. I’m only including cricket I saw live. I have an overlap in April … More My top cricket performances in 2017 – Part 1
I watched a lot of cricket this Summer and took thousands of photos, I can’y whittle them down to 10 is so am going to share these with you, trying to add in the player, date, venue and teams playing. Staring with the Champions Trophy, where I was lucky to see 7 games including the … More My Top Cricket Photos in 2017
I’ve written about the Saracens Sports Foundation before, but the annual Patron’s Evening has given me the chance to go again, I really can’t write too much about the work carried out by this wonderful group of people. The charity was established in 2000, they work across Hertfordshire and North London and inspire communities, changing … More The Saracens Sports Foundation 2017
It was very hard to stick to those I’ve included! My favourite cricketers! … More My Favourite World Cricketers
As England managed to beat the West Indies in 3 days I’m sitting at home rather than at Lords so can get back to my mission of getting up to date with the cricket I’ve watched this summer. England started the day on 252 for 6 with work to do, Toby Roland-Jones and Jonny Bairstow … More England v South Africa Day 2 Old Trafford
I’m on catch up again with piles of photos to share and the final test of the summer due to start this week. That means I have two test matches to account for before I set off for Lords on Thursday. With that in mind I’m going down the highlights with lots of photos route. … More England v South Africa Day 1 Old Trafford
Having written Day 2 up and managed to not save, I’m going to make this more Phlog than Blog as we’re in full flow with the series against the West Indies Day 2: Highlights of the Day: Alastair Cook got close to his century having played a patient innings, he made 88 from 200 balls … More England v South Africa – Days 2 – 4 – The Oval
An Orrell RUFC Retweet on Twitter and a discussion between a friend, Colin Ratcliffe and Martin Gleeson connected me to this rugby league legend. Another of those men I watched play Super League over many years. We weren’t able to meet face to face so the wonders of the internet and FaceTime it had to … More Martin Gleeson – Life After Rugby
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