That 1980s Sports Blog

This piece is a shortened version of my previous blogs on England's tour to India in 1984/85, which can be found here and here .

Jimmy Tarbuck joked that the Titanic and Lawrie McMenemy had one thing in common - both should never have left Southampton. After a turbulen...

Three years ago I wrote about some League Cup Third Round memories from the 1980s .  So it is probably about time that I moved on to the Fo...

Hockey was hardly a popular sport in UK during the 1980s, but for a couple of weeks in October 1986, all this changed. I have to admit tha...

This article first appeared in issue 260 of The Gooner It was a transfer that appeared to make sense at the time. After the gruelling an...

Claudio Bravo made a much publicised error on his recent Man City debut, but I'm not sure if his cock up matched any of the following go...

There are 28 points up for grabs in a Ryder Cup, so this week I thought I would take a look back at the same number of talking points relate...