That 1980s Sports Blog

So much has been written about that 1985 World Snooker Championship that it is tricky to find a different angle (pardon the pun). Dennis T...

It seems a bit of a cliché to say that we were blessed with characters in snooker during the 1980s, but this is an inescapable fact. The he...

Marathon football seasons often end in sweat and tears. Arsenal (1980) and Dundee United (1987) are just two examples of campaigns that p...

As the third one day match of the World Series finals drew to a conclusion, the crowd of 52,990 inside the Melbourne Cricket Ground may ha...

News broke earlier in the week about the sad death of Raddy Antic. The mere mention of the name brings a smile to the faces of Luton fans, ...

This article first appeared in  issue 280 of The Gooner . The campaign to Save the Gooner continues. Until George Graham arrived at the ...

As the coronavirus continues to have an impact on the world economy, the relationship between sport and money has come under the spotlight ...