Category: Rugby
Too Hot to Handle:
The Bruising West Indies Tour of 1976.
It’s nearly 50 years since the hot summer of 1976. It was the warmest on record and to be alive...
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Bill Thomas:
The Professional Sports Coach as Servant in Twentieth Century Britain.
Part Three.
Read Part 1 HERE and Part 2 HERE In 1935, a Daily Mirror reporter observed that Bill...
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Bill Thomas:
The Professional Sports Coach as Servant in Twentieth Century Britain.
Part Two.
For Part One – Click HERE Frederick William (‘Bill’) George Thomas, born in Banbury,...
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Bill Thomas:
The Professional Sports Coach as Servant in Twentieth Century Britain
Part One
Abstract Traditional coaching structures came under pressure in Britain during the late nineteenth...
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The Sucker Punch:
The Tragic Story of the Two Welsh Boxers who Perished in the Titanic
On April 15th 1912, after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic, the Royal Mail Ship...
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Alice Kell:
The Greatest Woman Footballer of All Time
Legendary Leader of the Original Dick Kerr Ladies FC Alice was the leader of the Dick Kerr Ladies...
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Pulling in the right direction:
Could Tug of War be heading back to the Olympics?
A team of tradesmen and farmers from Staffordshire has recently ( March 2026) won the gold medal...
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The FA Cup Final:
Why it still warrants a place on ‘Free to Air’ Television
BBC sport under a new partnership with TNT Sports, has become the sole ‘free to air’ broadcaster...
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The Media Superstars of WW1
Sterling Ladies FC – The Dagenham Invincibles
Saturday 1 September 1917 – First Public Filming of Women Football Superstars The first ever...
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Grace and Favour:
How W.G. took a chance on a young Gilbert Jessop
In the seventy years since the death of the ‘legendary cricketer’ Gilbert Laird Jessop, a great...
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‘Normalcy in a Time of Upheaval’- Football During World War Two
On the 9th October this year (2025) the former Stoke City footballer Frank Soo, was awarded a...
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Cardiff 1905:
Did Wales Become the First Rugby World Champions In the Land of their Fathers?
One hundred and twenty years ago Wales beat The New Zealand ‘All Blacks’ for the first time at...
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