What is the most famous football match of all time? Geoff Hurst's hat-trick in 1966? Pele's demolition of Italy in 1970? Huddersfield Town's 3-0 triumph over Nottingham Forest to secure their first league title back in 1924? All worthy contende...

In football, much is often made of the Lisbon Lions – a Celtic side that conquered Europe in 1967, with a team in which the majority of the starting eleven were born within a mere 12 miles of their Parkhead ground (the exception being Bobby Len...

In 1968, Yorkshire County Cricket Club were untouchable. No other team in the country could compete with their ethos, their production line of England greats, or their roll of honour. Seven league titles in the previous decade had confirmed the...

In the latest episode of 'The Way We See Sport', we return once again to the sport of Rugby League, focusing on the transformative role played by Maurice Lindsay, a divisive, yet visionary figure whose influence developed during the Thatcherite...

In the wake of the release of 'Original Sin', a book by Jake Tapper and AlexThompson detailing the deterioration of President Biden between 2020 and 2024,Nathan and Chris explore the one opponent no sportsperson can defeat - age.

During the 1974 World Cup, the tournament featured a clash between the hosts (West Germany) and their Communist neighbours (East Germany) during the Group Phase.  'The Bruderduel' between the two Germanys was heralded as "The most politica...

From Martina Navratilova to Serena Williams, few sports have provided as manyiconic female icons as tennis. Yet, this does not mean that the sport has beenimmune from criticism over the manner in which it treats its female stars. The fa...

When Merseyside's footballing titans (Everton and Liverpool) were drawn together in the 5th Round of the FA Cup in 1991, the stage was set for the latest instalment of a gripping rivalry, one that had dominated English Football for much of the ...

In February 2018, double World Champion, Evgenia Medvedeva, skated onto the ice to pursue the one medal that had up to that point eluded her: Olympic Gold. What followed was a routine so mesmeric, so creative, and so moving that it astounded ev...

In this week’s episode of ‘The Way We See Sport, The Way See Life’ we continue our deep dive into the sport of boxing assessing whether its historical standing as ‘Sport of Kings’ rings true in modern society.In the first part of our two...

Following the end of our second series, we have developed another long-form special over two parts.  This time, assessing the sport of boxing and whether it is truly a ‘Sport of Kings’ or merely a brutal blood sport that has provided the p...

In October 1993, Frank Bruno and Lennox Lewis made history when they met in Cardiff with the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight title on the line.  The contest was the first time that two British born heavyweights had contested a world...

On one particularly glorious afternoon of rugby, the French national team conquered opponents from the British Isles to be crowned Champions of Europe.  Yet, the year was not 2025, and the code of rugby was not Union; the year was 1939, an...

In 1895, Rugby's Great Split occured.  Working class players situated largely in Northern England broke away from the sport's governing body - The Rugby Football Union (RFU) - due to the fact that the RFU's unwillingness to compensate play...

Is it possible to think of England’s 1966 World Cup win without hearing KennethWolstenholme describing how "some people are on the pitch” before he delivered the immortal line "They think it's all over, it is now!" as Geoff Hurst slammed th...

In 1987's FIFA Youth World Cup, a dynamic and exciting young Yugoslav side featuring multiple players (Robert Jarni, Igor Štimac, Zvonimir Boban, Robert Prosinečki, Predrag Mijatović and Davor Šuker) that would go on to have stellar careers in ...

There are few sports which elevate the importance of the so-called “spirit of the game” quite as much as cricket, but in the Antipodean summer of 1932-33 relations were decidedly frosty between the national teams of Australia and England.

When we left the story exploring the parallels between the tenures of Graham Taylor and John Major at the end of Part One in the summer of 1992, both men were perhaps at the peak of their powers.  Taylor’s England were looking forward to t...

During the autumn of 1990, the winds of change were blowing with respect to two of the most prominent positions in British culture, the England National team manager and the Prime Minister.  Two long-standing incumbents, Bobby Robson and M...

29th May 1985.  A date that has gone down in infamy due to the tragic events that occurred ahead of that season's European Cup Final at Heysel.  39 fans (mostly Italian Juventus supporters) lost their lives when a wall collapsed as th...

In the shadow of the Gulf War, two teams of golfers met at Kiawah Island in 1991 for what soon developed into the most explosive and ill-tempered Ryder Cup ever to be held.In this latest episode of 'The Way We See Sport, The Way We See L...

During this week’s episode of ‘The Way We See Life, The Way We See Sport’, Chris and Nathan look back upon the forays of both of Ireland’s football sides during the successive World Cup competitions of 1982, 1986, 1990 & 1994.  At a ti...

In this week’s episode of ‘The Way We See Sport, The Way See Life’, we are going back to a sunny Autumn afternoon in 1972.  Three years after Woodstock, The Moon Landing and the New York Jets' stunning victory in the third iteration of the...

In 1895, clubs in Northern England broke away from the Rugby Football Union (RFU) to form their own Northern Union.  The key issue was payment to players.Southern clubs stemming from Rugby's roots in the English Public School syste...

Joe Louis was the trailblazing boxer who had become the hero of black American communities across the U.S.A during the 1930s. Max Schmeling was the German heavyweight with ties to the very top of the Nazi Party. At first glance, th...