365 Sporting Days
Sharing a passion for Sport!
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 be. I was in Birmingham […]
A game of rugby league in the heart of the City of London
A look back to an interview with Steve McCormack
There have been a few times in the last 3 years when I really have felt like pinching myself when I find myself sitting opposite someone I admired on the playing field. Especially rugby league, as the first game I watched week in week out as a ‘grown up’ – with football coming first as a teenager. One such person […]
The Australians arrive and take the Superleague scene by storm
A chat with Mick Cassidy about Life After Rugby
What a setting for a game of Rugby League!
In the midst of all my Rugby Union World Cup gallivanting was the biggest game in the Superleague calendar – The Grand Final at Old Trafford. I’d never been, it was a no brainer to add it to my list of sporting events in this special year! My only other visit to Old Trafford (Football stylie) had been for the […]
In the week leading up to this innovative fixture in London I thought I’d bought myself a ticket for England RU v Ireland only to find I hadn’t. I decided I really wanted to support Wigan in their bid to draw a crowd to Millwall for their Super 8’s clash against Les Catalans so got myself online to but a […]
My 3rd of 5 games for the weekend took me to Wigan to watch part 2 of the World Club Series. Having been to Central Park a couple of times now I’m chuffed to say I can get to and away from the stadium via a traffic missing shortcut! Always good to miss the queue! The parking situation wasn’t terribly […]
Rugby League is back! A very odd fact for an Essex Girl (I use the word girl loosely) I’m a huge league fan! London Skolars, based in White Hart Lane in North London take the game to the heart of the City once a year. 2014 saw the Wigan Warriors step into the breach when London Broncos were unable to […]
365 Sporting Days 