That 1980s Sports Blog

The choice of my county cricket team was made on a purely geographical basis, as a lot of sports fans often stress should be the method used...

Arrogance in sport is a tricky beast to control. Some of the great champions of the past had it in spades: Ali, Bristow, Clough, Thompson, t...

One of the problems with getting old is that there comes a point in your life when you realise that your time has gone. Whereas once you wer...

As an England cricket fan growing up in the 1980s there are a fair few entrants in the most disastrous series of that particular decade. For...

Anyone out there remember the Wightman Cup? OK pipe down Barker and Wade. Anyone else? I thought not. For those of you still confused, the W...

As an Arsenal fan of nearly 30 years, it is quite hard to put into words just how inept the early to mid-80s team could be. On their day the...