Reasons to be down: Russian racism, Test cricket dying. Reasons to be cheerful: NFL’s first female coach, Chris Froome, Reasons to laugh: Fifa, angry caddy. Sport Geek’s take on the week is below. Please feel free to share and spread the word. Continue reading
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The golf was cold, the cycling was heated, and the cricket completely different to last time. Plus, (and you don’t get to write this every week), urine and cash have both been chucked about. Sport Geek’s take on the week is below. Please feel free to share and spread the word. Continue reading
Ashes in action, Wimbledon wrapped-up, plus lots of other great stories this week. Please feel free to share and spread the word. Continue reading
The best sports writing from the past week (or so).
WIMBLEDON
No predictions, they could all be wrong by the time you read this. Instead:
Player with a problem 1) Rafael Nadal. His loss to Dustin Brown was almost predicatable. Is this career end-game? Or time to sack uncle Toni and get a new coach?
Player with a problem 2) Nick Kyrgios. You can be the next superstar, but nobody likes a tanker.
You may have noticed that Wimbledon is ON. But there are some other great sporting stories out there too. Here’s this week’s Geek take: Continue reading
GOLF
Leave aside talk of Serena getting the Grand Slam – what about Jordan? With the Masters and now US Open in the bag, Speith is halfway there. What’s in store at the Open?
Don’t forget how fine the margins are in golf: Dustin Johnson had a put to win at Chambers Bay. Continue reading
CORRUPTION ETC
We noticed before that Sepp Blatter didn’t actually use the word ‘resign’. So let’s not be surprised that – oh look – he might carry on after all.
Get real 1) Don’t call the Olympics out as a model for Fifa to follow. The IOC is happy to suck up to dictators. Hello Baku!
Get real 2) It might be a fun devils-advocate position to take, but Blatter hasn’t actually helped the poorer football nations at all.
Don’t call it the beautiful game. Try “the zero-sum game that deepens the poverty of the poor“. Continue reading
The best of the last week (or so). Fifa, Barca, failure, and a long hour. Continue reading
FIFA
So much has been written about Fifa in the past week, it’s worth remembering that most of the allegations of corruption are old old news. Still… Continue reading
TENNIS
Is this Novak Djokovic’s French Open? Whether it’s Rafael Nadal’s atrocious form, or Djokovic’s incredibly detailed preparation, it looks that way.
FOOTBALL
You might hate Sepp Blatter, but he understands the world better than you, you irrelevant Westerner. Meanwhile, Qatar’s World Cup death rate is now over 60 per match, and Brazil’s 2014 legacy is already a mess.
English clubs need to learn to love the Europa League. The country may soon lose a Champion’s League place. Continue reading
