The oldest swingers in town – Rooney would love it!

Nurnberg is one of my favourite places in Europe. It has so much history, so many fantastic buildings and loads of decent bars. In terms of football it has a passionately supported team who play in one of the most unique stadiums in Germany. It also has some fond memories for me including the World [...]

Red Bull Shit

With only two months to go before England’s fate would be decided by the super powers of Russia and Croatia I was still on course to complete my research for Euro2008 and hopefully the trip to Salzburg would not be the last time I would be seeing the city for football purposes. Now this was [...]

2007 Rugby World Cup

Nearly bye bye Brian in Nantes

Three weeks into the Rugby World Cup and England’s campaign was in tatters. They had started with a wimper against USA, been embarrassed by South Africa and now faced a do or die game against Samoa who had started the tournament in a worse situation after being thumped by South Africa and narrowly beaten by [...]

WHY I HATE PARIS AND SOUTH AFRICA

I must be the only person in the world who genuinely hates Paris. I know many people who think they hate it but most of these have never actually been there. However, I have….and I hate it. How anyone can call it the “City of Love” or the “Most Romantic City in the World” I [...]