• Friday Five-Way: 15th August

    Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come! We have been treated to a summer of fantastic sport: the World Cup in Brazil, Wimbledon, the Tour de France and the stunning show put on by our northern cousins at the Commonwealth Games. But nothing can quite replace the warming embrace...
  • Time to Stop the Clock and Right the Wrongs

    This coming season, the Premier League will arm its referees with the so-called ‘vanishing spray’ following its use at the 2014 World Cup to cordon off walls from encroaching free-kicks and prevent the taker from repositioning the ball. But, while this is obviously a step in the right direction...
  • Brazil 2014: A UoN Retrospective

    A month after the 2014 World Cup, third-year History student Nico looks back on his time in Brazil… Considering all the hysterical pre-trip scaremongering I had been fed by friends, family and the national media, I was half expecting, upon boarding my Brazil-bound flight, to be flying into a warzone with...