Category: Team Sports
‘A Chastening Experience’:
When Sir Stanley Matthews Managed Port Vale Football Club
Sir Stanley Matthews is widely regarded as having been one of the greatest association football...
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Revisiting the Lost Football Grounds:
The Early Years of Ayresome Park
As Middlesbrough and Luton Town opened the English Football League season earlier this month, the...
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The Golden Age of Mexican Cricket
Part 2
The cricket championship that ran from 1900 to 1909 was the first sports league in Mexico. It...
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The only match the Dutch East Indies played at the World Cup
At the 1938 football World Cup in France, the team representing the Dutch East Indies played...
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Black History Month (Part 3):
From Segregation to Integration in the NBA.
For Part 1 and 2 of this series please see – Part 1 –Â bit.ly/2G1f1fVÂ and Part 2...
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FIFA’s Laws Board (1886) predates FIFA (1904)
The laws of international football 2019/20 came into force 1 June 2019. A special board has the...
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Getting Yorkshire cricket back on its feet
Jeremy Lonsdale examines how Yorkshire cricket clubs faced the challenges of starting again after...
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Black History Month (Part 2):
Pay-for-Play Basketball
The Savoy Big Five from Chicago, 1930s. For Part 1 see – bit.ly/2G1f1fV By 1920 Black Fives...
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The World Cup comes to the Tees Valley:Â
The 1966 FIFA World Cup and 2021 Rugby League World Cup compared
At the end of January, it was revealed that the Tees Valley will play host to the 2021 Rugby...
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Black History Month: Celebrating Men’s Black Fives Basketball (Part 1)
The month of February in the USA has been designated Black History Month. It provides a platform...
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Golden Age of Mexican Cricket Part 1
The regime of President Porfirio Diaz that ruled Mexico from 1876 to 1911 (known as the...
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Crossing Boundaries: Trans-National Cricketing Links Between the Netherlands and England In The Late 19th Century
Transnational interactions between England and the Netherlands in the late 19th Century were both...
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