Sport

January 8, 2021• Olympics, Sport

When Should Athletes Get The Vaccine?

Note: This piece expands a little on a Twitter thread that I published earlier today. Today it was reported that the UAE Team Emirates...

December 4, 2019• Internet, Sport, TV

This week, Amazon Prime in the UK has begun the first of its streaming-only games offered to Prime subscribers. You will recall that during...

October 17, 2019• Sport, TV

I’ve repeatedly tried to explain why the Premier League was foolish to package rights to every fixture across two of their Match Days...

July 16, 2019• Sport, TV

Sunday was an incredible day for sport. Personally, I spent quite a lot of time flicking between ITV4 and Eurosport’s coverage of...

January 21, 2019• Sport, TV

Yesterday evening, UK time, the NFL championship games took place, deciding which teams will contest the Super Bowl. I have an on/off...

December 13, 2018• Sport, TV

I wrote something on Twitter about this, but thought I’d elaborate a little here too. There was something of a shake-up in rights...

September 28, 2018• Sport

There’s a major sporting occasion that has been getting underway this week and climaxes at the weekend. It’s in Europe this...

June 26, 2018• Sport, TV

No, I am not talking about Patrice Evra’s applauding of fellow ITV pundit and England footballer Eniola Aluko (nor his muttered...

June 19, 2018• Sport, TV

Two media stories which have interested me a lot about the World Cup so far. In the UK, we’re fortunate to still have Ofcom’s...

June 16, 2018• Sport, TV

We’re only a short period into the third day of this World Cup, and we’ve already been lucky enough to see a World Cup classic...