With the football season coming to an end – later than expected – it is only right that I announce the inaugural winners of the The Sports Gent (TSG) awards for the 2019/2020 season. The awards will be given in the following categories: Most Entertaining Team of the Season Most Improved Player of the Season … More Football: And The Winners Are…
Football players (that’s soccer for our American English speaking peers) have a reputation for being overpaid, overrated and obnoxious. A feeling that has been emphasised by the media, which forced The F.A. to suggest that players take a voluntary 30% reduction, which was rejected. Such decisions do not really help the ill-feeling towards football players … More Football: Should Players Take a Pay Cut?
Here are the answers to yesterday’s quiz… EASY I played with the following players: Carlos Tevez ARG 🇦🇷 Dimitar Berbatov BLR 🇧🇾 Wayne Rooney ENG 🏴 Paola Dybala ARG 🇦🇷 Karim Benzema FRA 🇫🇷 Sergio Ramos SPA 🇪🇸 Gonzalo Higuain ARG 🇦🇷 Toni Kroos GER 🇩🇪 Luis Nani POR 🇵🇹 Matthijs De Ligt HOL 🇳🇱 … More Fun and Games: Who Am I? (Answers)
Look at the following three sets of players that I played with in order to try and identify which footballer I am. The level of difficulty will increase with each question. Easy I played with the following players: Carlos Tevez ARG 🇦🇷 Dimitar Berbatov BLR 🇧🇾 Wayne Rooney ENG 🏴 Paola Dybala ARG 🇦🇷 Karim … More Fun and Games: Who Am I?
A world without sports is something that would have been unthinkable a few months ago. Then Rudy Gobert of the Utah Jazz started laughing about feeling sick during an NBA pre-match press conference before touching all of the microphones. All fun and games, that’s until Gobert tested positive for the virus less than an hour … More We May Be Back Soon…
See you if you can break down the pictures and figure out what major news story or sporting event they are referring to. 1. Let’s start with an easy one… 2. This one is slightly more difficult. 3. Not sure if you will get this one, though. I will reveal the answers … More Fun and Games: Picture Anagrams
This year’s NBA All-Star game will be held in Chicago, Illinois, and is expected to be slightly more competitive because of the new rules that are going to be implemented. Rules, which I think will be detrimental to the event. For many years, the All-Star games were a battle between the best players from the … More Basketball: NBA All-Kobe Game
Sometimes we forget as football fans that football players are human beings, too, simply because of how well they get paid. Some of them need a comforting arm around the shoulder, while others react well to a good old rollicking. Unfortunately for Moise Kean, he was on the end of neither. The young Italian striker, … More Football: Not So ‘Kean’ to Play for Big Dunc.
I’m as surprised as anyone else after hearing that Mauricio Pochettino has been sacked. However, the true shock is more in the choice of replacement and the speed in which it all happened. It’s very rare for such events to be handled so efficiently, but then again majority of the time Daniel Levy, Tottenham chairman, … More The “Special One” is Back
All I keep hearing is how the men are “much better than the women.” How the women “wouldn’t be able to compete with the men.” If you are one of the people who keep doing this, then please take this moment to realise that you are simply an idiot. You know who you are… You … More Football: FIFA Women’s World Cup
