• Staying on Track: How One Student Balances University with a Professional Racing Career

    It’s a windy January morning and most university students are braving the cold to attend lectures or banging their heads against textbooks in the library in the hopes that the history of the Middle Ages will soak into their brain via osmosis. Not Alex Fores, a twenty-year-old student from...
  • Ice Ice Ladies: Ice Hockey, A Female Perspective

    If you have properly immersed yourself in Nottingham’s culture, then you will know about the ice hockey buzz that surrounds the National Ice Centre – be it the Panthers, the Mavericks, the Vipers, the Lions, the list of teams (and aggressive animal names) goes on. With children as young...
  • Luck Retirement Shows There’s More to Life for Players

    Andrew Luck shocked the NFL recently when he announced his retirement, seemingly out of nowhere. This was a 29 year old at a position where stars are beginning to play into their late thirties who was in the middle of a six year contract worth up to $140 million....
  • Bury Football Club (1885-2019)

    On the 27th August 2019, Bury Football Club were expelled from the EFL, becoming the first team since Maidstone in 1992 to meet this fate. The decision came after a series of failures by both the EFL themselves and owner Steve Dale to safeguard one of England’s oldest football...
  • The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Football, Alcohol and Betting

    In the first of a multi-part series from Impact Sport, Oscar Sephton takes a look at the issue of gambling advertising in football. The next part will focus on the case of Yerry Mina and PaddyPower’s #SaveOurShirt campaign. Recently, the beautiful game has developed quite the blemish: Ray Winstone’s...
  • Notts County: Under New Management at Last

    Finally the Alan Hardy era at Meadow Lane has come to an end. After a tumultuous and lengthy process, a Danish consortium led by Alexander and Christoffer Reedtz have taken over Notts County. With the admirable short term priority of making sure players and staff have been paid overdue...
  • Joshua-Ruiz: Joshua’s focus on the future derails his present.

    Of all the clichés that could be used with regards to Anthony Joshua’s far less than whelming defeat at the hands of Andy Ruiz one feels particularly apt. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. This fight for Joshua was all about what it...