That 1980s Sports Blog

Eighteen inches. Just eighteen inches. So close, that even asking a former US Masters champion to play the shot seemed questionable, almost ...

Before 1989, Christy O'Connor Jnr had a strained relationship with the Ryder Cup. Winless in his one previous appearance and then rejec...

February 1989: the start of Sandy Lyle's season on the US tour has continued where he left off in 1988. Two second-place finishes and an...

Whilst watching the recent 50 years celebration programme about Match of the Day it struck me how big a deal the Goal of the Season awar...

A change of tack this week, as I reveal a bit about my childhood in the 1980s, and the massive part sport played in making me the sporting o...

A look back this week on the final Grand Slam of the 1988 tennis season: the US Open. A tournament which saw the completion of Steffi Graf...

The Challenge Cup certainly owed Hull a thing or two come 1982. The club had last won the famous trophy in 1914 (in Halifax), but since then...