Today, The 2008 Championships at Wimbledon come to a close with the Men’s Singles final followed by the Mixed Doubles final (weather permitting). Spain’s Rafael Nadal faces Switzerland’s Roger Federer it what promises to be an epic five-setter. I’ll be gunning for Roger as I don’t particularly like Rafa’s style of play.
Yesterday, it was [...]
This is the first year in five years that I didn’t go down to SW19 for The Championships at Wimbledon. Why?
Money! A day at Wimbledon isn’t cheap! A hotel room the night before (see below for why you might need one) costs no less than £80, the cost to get in is anywhere between £20 [...]
Last night, a global crisis occurred. The football went off air. Breathe deeply and hold someone’s hand as we look at how the world coped.
As you’ll know, the Euro 2008 championships have been taking place in Switzerland and Austria. So far, everything’s gone without a hitch, perhaps helped considerably by England’s absence from the competition. [...]
Something I’m currently fascinated by is the Olympic Torch Relay, something I’m sure my Twitter followers will testify. I’ve been enthusiastically posting my observations of the torch relay to Twitter over the course of the last week. Today, I thought I’d create a post summarising those thoughts.
ARRRGGGHHHH! Something’s definitely not right. This afternoon, England, who’ve quite frankly been awful ever since they won the World Cup four years ago beat Australia in the quarter finals of this year’s World Cup. There was only one try in the whole match and it was Australia’s, but four penalties from the golden boot of [...]
I do love it when Mum and Dad return from a trip to France. Not only because it’s great to see them again, but also because they bring with them plenty of delicious goodies, most of it not available in Britain. This is just a sample of what they brought back this time. Can’t wait [...]
This Friday, France play Argentina in the opening match of the Rugby World Cup 2007. And my god, I’m excited! Probably more so than I have been with any other recent sporting event. For 44 days from Friday, there’ll be more rugby matches than I can possibly watch. On the following Saturday, there’s three consecutive [...]
Last Saturday, I experienced something I have never experienced before. The past five years or so, I’ve watched and enjoyed it on television, but when it made a historic trip to London, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to see it in person.
I’m talking of course about the Tour de France, not just the most [...]
Just a quick post to say how delighted I am that Britain’s Jamie Murray and Serbia’s Jelena Jankovic (Two J’s) have this evening won the Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Championship. Each match in their journey through the draw has been thoroughly entertaining, mainly due to their sporting ability, but also due in part to their captivating [...]
This afternoon, while the tennis is suspended for the fiftieth time due to rain, I’ve activated a new theme for this site. This time, I’ve designed the theme from scratch. I’m not absolutely delighted with it, so I’ll be tinkering with it for a while but this is now the way Here To Geneva will [...]
