A sporting Saturday.  You may recall “Harry and the Hendersons”, a 1987 film released here in the UK as “Bigfoot and the Hendersons”. I recall both titles  but never saw the film or its TV spin-off. Last night England beat Ukraine in the quarter-final of the European Football Championship. The competition was due to take… Continue reading Henderson and the Harrys 

The English football season is almost over. There are play-off finals in the coming week to determine the final promotion places in the second, third and fourth tiers of the professional game. In the top division, the Premier League, last Sunday’s final round of fixtures settled the few remaining issues, mainly related to European qualification. The relegation places had been confirmed with three matches to spare, and Manchester City were crowned… Continue reading All the things that didn’t matter, last season

There’s a full programme of midweek Premier League fixtures this week, every match screened live on BT Sport. Last night’s away wins for Leeds United (at Newcastle) and Arsenal (at Southampton) occupied nearly four hours of our time, but they were the results we wanted. We were happy too about the away wins for West… Continue reading English Managers in the Premier League

Usually at this stage of the sporting season my attention is focussed on just one of the teams I favour: Leeds United, who have returned to the top division of English football after 16 seasons in lower divisions. The All-Ireland finals in Gaelic sports (hurling and Gaelic football) are usually in September. Even when there… Continue reading Kilkenny, Leeds, Dublin (2020)