Daniel Zeqiri

The phrase ‘second season syndrome’ is a cliché that is all too easy to resort to, but this Premier League season has had a knack of punishing those teams and managers who were extremely fashionable 12 months ago. Manuel Pellegrini, Roberto Martinez and Brendan Rodgers were strong contenders for...

Dan Zeqiri returns with his weekly column following a much needed winter break… The retirement of Steven Gerrard produced an explosion of articles, columns and blogs dedicated to his illustrious career. You would expect plenty of media reaction when a player of that standing calls it time; but, by...

This weekend saw the Wild Card round of the playoffs with four teams eliminated from the competition, with injuries arguably costing three of the Wild Card teams their place, whilst the Lions left the playoffs with a highly controversial refereeing non-decision. It is perhaps an indictment of the first three...

This week was the last of the regular season, with everything that brings – play-off deciders on the Sunday.  With ten teams playing for either a play-off spot or a first round bye, there was ample tension on Sunday night with the Falcons particularly crumbling beneath it. Monday saw the...

Italian veteran Martin Castrogiovanni dominated the rugby headlines for all the wrong reasons this week, albeit for the reasons that he intended. Following Toulon’s 25-21 defeat to Leicester last week, the French team’s prop called a press conference in which he unleashed an expletive-ridden tirade against the Tiger’s head...

Third Year History and German student, Tim Cole, wrote for Impact Sport earlier this year about watching live football in Berlin. In this instalment, he travels north to Rostock… Hansa Rostock 0 vs. Preußen Münster 2 (06.12.2014) The German port city of Rostock, situated on the dismally grey and windswept...

England’s defeat of Australia on Saturday brought to a close this year’s autumn internationals test series; it was the last opportunity for northern hemisphere teams to test themselves against a host of southern hemisphere countries before the World Cup in England next year. Fortunes were mixed: England generally struggled,...