The dramatic final of this year’s 2023 PDC World Championship reminded us all of just how great this game is — When Michael Smith found his target with the last dart of the PDC World Darts Championship 2023, he brought to an end 16 days of some of the best darts the world has ever seen. The marathon tournament is the pinnacle of darts and, on Tuesday evening, another new name…

If a week is a long time in politics, then a year is more like a lifetime for English Test cricket The start of 2022 was pretty bleak for English Test cricket. Before the end of March, we played five matches in Australia and then West Indies. Poor performances and absent leadership resulted in no victories and three defeats. The lowest point of these was arguably the fifth Ashes test in…

Defeat against France was hard to swallow, but attention needs to quickly turn to Euro 2024 — Tournament football and England Men’s team have had a painful relationship for many, many years. Under Gareth Southgate, this has continued but has perhaps been made even more painful by the fact we’ve been given much more hope. The agonising defeat to France brought to an end a World Cup…

Far too many working class people are against other working class people fighting for better working conditions and frankly- it stinks — Christmas is charging towards us at some speed. All across the country, people are counting down the days until they gather with family and friends over the festive period. In amongst all the looming seasonal greetings, there is still plenty of hatred being shown towards the tens of thousands of…

England have fallen short at the last two major tournament’s- more heartbreak needs to be avoided in 2022 — Major tournaments have become somewhat more enjoyable for England fans in recent years. The 2018 World Cup in Russia saw Gareth Southgate lead his country to the semi-finals, the furthest any England team had reached since 1990. The momentum was carried onto the delayed European Championships of 2020 (which took…

Can the Welsh roar back onto the international stage after 64 years of hurt? — The 2022 World Cup is almost here, and for some teams it will be their first appearance at the biggest football tournament on the planet in decades. One of these sides is Wales. For the first time since 1958, Cymru will be one of 32 sides making the long and…

The Kilmarnock three-piece were once again on top form in Cardiff — It was a chilly, damp November Monday night in Cardiff. It was not the sort of evening where you want to be outside for too long. Luckily for me, I was spending it inside the Cardiff International Arena. Biffy Clyro topped the bill as they called in at the Welsh…

England are double champions of the cricketing world- and they look they could only get better — The dust has settled on the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in Australia and following weeks of high intensity cricket with plenty of ups and downs, England are champions. Holding both the 50 over and 20 over titles at the same time for the first time ever, Jos Buttler has…

The Qatar tournament is set to be one of the most controversial FIFA World Cup’s in history- and with good reason — The dark nights have rolled in and the temperature across the UK has plummeted as winter returns. In every other year, the bread and butter of the English domestic football season will be in full swing by now and will plough on relentlessly until May. Yet 2022 brings with it…