365 Sporting Days
Sharing a passion for Sport!
Having seen Australia ‘rained off’ at Edgbaston I was hoping for a better day at The Oval. The fact I didn’t get soaked did I suppose mean it was better, but the result for the cricket was to be the same. I was sitting in the new Peter May Stand which meant I was amongst the very passionate and vocal […]
Having watched England kick off their Champions Trophy campaign with a win I headed back to my car in Hampstead to drive up to Birmingham for Game 2 between two Southern Hemisphere rivals. The forecast wasn’t the best and it’s accuracy will make this account more of a Phlog than a Blog. I woke up to the sound of rain […]
Having been at Lords to see England’s horror show against South Africa I was looking forward to a good game of cricket at the Oval in the opening Champions Trophy match. I’d only received 2 tickets through the ICC ballot, including the final, but access as a Surrey and England member and persistence with the site meant I’ve ended up […]
Where to start after the fact? On May 13th 2017 Saracens joined good company in retaining the Champions Cup, they did so in one of the best finals for a few years. I’ve been a Saracens season ticket holder since 2009, and no, I’m not the only one as so many other Premiership rugby fans like to throw out there. […]
Days 5 and 6 include rugby so they’ll need to be posted later. Day 7 sees us heading back to the South. We again decided to go map book style and we again got lost! We aimed for the A68 rather than the A1 and that ended up with us taking an amazing road across some incredible scenery. The day […]
A decent nights sleep was had in spite of a room that was on the hot side, we went out of the hotel for breakfast, to the Hoxton North, next door to the White Hart Hotel. What a great place to spend time, the restaurant was full and the food sublime. Harrogate was an exceptional culinary experience overall! Northumberland was […]
Those who know me well will notice a change in my standard accommodation pick, it’s hard to find twin rooms in the chains I usually frequent, our first night in a ‘hotel’ was actually a B & B in Lincoln, The Gables came highly recommended. We had a good nights sleep in a comfortable bedroom, followed by a very tasty […]
Day 2 of our road trip saw us waking in Great Gransden, we’d stayed with my lovely cousin Kate and her other half Giles. We were spoilt rotten, and had our ‘no cake’ rule broken with the warm Lemon Drizzle cake she’d baked when she got home from work. I have no concept of that, but the cake was delightful! […]
With the European Rugby Finals in Edinburgh the temptation to take a road trip with my good friend Monica was too strong! Lots of laughter and some beautiful sights with a long playlist to sing-along to, what more could you want? Day 1 has taken us to Cambridge, we jumped too quickly on the food front and went to Tatties; […]
With a busy week full of cricket this is going to be more about the photos than the words. The final home game of the ‘standard’ season saw Bristol visiting Allianz Park, they’d battled for several years to get into the Premiership, finishing top of the league only to fail in the play offs. That was put right in the […]
I was lucky enough to meet Daisy Hodgson in 2015, she is one amazing young woman! She’s just about to take part in a 100km walk aiming to complete it within 30 hours – you can sponsor Daisy and her team Here Now then, why am I writing about an Auctioneer on a Sports website you may well ask; take a look at Daisy’s surname and you may twig that the wife part of her persona sees her married to non other than Charlie Hodgson. I was lucky enough to meet Daisy at the pre-season Barbecue at Allianz Park in 2013, at that time she and Charlie were accompanied by their 3 lovely children Henry, Anastasia and Jack. And as is […]
Halfway through writing this I’ve come back to the start, it’s going to be more an account of a great weekend than a match report – you have been warned! As my Saracens friends have found out I’m not a fan of flying, the only times of late I’ve been on a plane have been to watch Saracens play Munster […]
Wood Green isn’t the most likely place to find a rugby league player, but that’s where London Skolars man Dion Chapman hails from. He went to Broomfield School in Arnos Grove and like many he started out with football. A school tournament put on by the Skolars brought him to their attention, he was with his Uncle, a man who’s […]
And so the squad has been announced, well, officially announced that is. The biggest shock this week has been the fact that a few notable exclusions were announced days before those picked were. Neil Jenkins tweeted this morning “Here comes the English outrage…. as predictable as leap year” I’m not outraged by any of the selections or exclusions, I am […]
As my Good Friday went on so the conditions for taking photos deteriorated, so only a handful here. Leaving Tottenham slightly early I took off back along the A406, I saw far too much of that road for my liking! But, I arrived in plenty of time and was able to touch base with my lovely Quins friends Sue and […]
A good day at the office for the Skolars
