365 Sporting Days
Sharing a passion for Sport!
I’m coming to this late after being out all day watching my county team Essex play for the last 3 days, they beat Warwickshire by an innings and 164 runs! I have to confess my allegiance as far as the Champions trophy final is concerned, I am English and England are my team, but Pakistan come a very close second […]
I’m having to watch this one again to get my thoughts on it in order – my initial headline would be – Italy play within the laws but not the spirit of the game to outsmart England for 40 minutes! Unlike many I wasn’t expecting Italy to lie down for England, they’ll have been smarting after a battering at the […]
Guest Blogger Monica explains how a passion for Sport comes about!
With the Rugby World Cup in England this year the usual season curtain raiser at Twickenham was delayed until late November. So, we saw a different date, but also a different team with Worcester Warriors joining the party in lieu of Harlequins. A wonderful opportunity for the club to bring both their players and fans to the home of English […]
Having had a day in the sun at the Anniversary Games it was back to summer rugby – rugby league. The only snag is no one had told the weather, a cold, wet, blustery afternoon was the scene for the visit of the Sheffield Eagles to The Hive. With lots of sports gallivanting I don’t have the time to write […]
When I collected my tickets for Australia’s visit to the County Ground I was very hopeful that I’d be able to spend a good part of my Saturday watching them in action. Some of me thought it might be done and dusted by then, but Essex made a good competition of the game and the day started with Essex needing […]
A morning at the Premiership Rugby Fixtures Release gave me a small quandary – Essex were playing Australia in Chelmsford and Surrey were playing T20 against Middlesex at the Oval. In reality I didn’t have to think too much – I rushed back to Chelmsford after having a great morning. A chance to see the Australians play was a no […]
Rugby Union had to feature in one of my multi-sport weekends, cricket on Friday followed by Saracens at London Welsh on Saturday, with London Skolars to finish of my weekend. For the final game of the weekend a crowd of us had decided to make an outing of it and had booked into the hotel next to the Kassam Stadium. […]
As I arrived at the Stoop last week I thought to myself – why aren’t I coming here again next week? Saracens were playing Munster at 1pm – Quins v Wasps started at 7:45pm that was a huge gap between the 2 games – it seemed a plan to do both! And so a ticket was bought before I left […]
After a chilly afternoon watching my 1st live rugby league game of 2015 next up was a somewhat bigger affair with rather more at stake. The relabelled European Rugby Champions Cup, strangely sponsored by no other than Heineken would take me to 2 games in a day. The 1st was Saracens v Munster Rugby kicking off at 1pm, a nice […]
The 1st day back at work after the Christmas break is always a bit of a struggle, what a nasty shock when my alarm clock went off at 6am! Just nasty! Not so bad though when I had a rugby match to look forward to! Monday night is usually meeting night for me so I miss most of the A […]
An evening in a Hotel, in this case the Holiday Inn Express, Filbert Way, Leicester, the one opposite the King Power Stadium, tends to mean dinner alone. The hotel don’t have a restaurant so I wandered round to the Steak & Grill Restaurant attached. And so, the lady eating alone in the evening scenario occurred, somehow I often feel as […]
It will soon become plain that I am in fact a season ticket holder at Allianz Park – home of Saracens. Some very clever marketing saw that happen 6 years ago now; £10 to watch Saracens play Northampton Saints at Wembley was too good to miss for a sports fan. Then it was rude not to but a season ticket […]
It’s here! January 1st 2015 means I can start my new sports related blog! I’ve watched 1 football and 2 rugby matches since I had my plan to track my year in black and white (or whatever colour the blog turns out to be!) It’s been hard not to write about them here, but they weren’t in 2015! So not […]
I thought that 2014 was pretty amazing for me when it came to live sport; I watched England Rugby Union play in Paris for the first time, then watched Wales play France on a Friday evening, before I drove to Twickenham to watch England play Ireland. Rugby Union isn’t my only passion I had an eleven day spell in the […]
365 Sporting Days 