World Cup Nuggets podcast

Welcome to the World Cup Nuggets podcast, with more fun facts and stupendous stats about each of the 32 countries competing in Qatar. The next six episodes cover silky Senegal, strong Serbia, slick Spain, stoic Switzerland, tricky Tunisia and unbowed Uruguay. Listen out for the question that is set about every country at the end ofContinue reading “World Cup Nuggets podcast”

Euros 2020: Best tournament for 50 years.

Italy started and ended this tournament on a high. The Azzurri lit the blue touch paper 0n 11th June in Rome when they eased past Turkey with effortless elan and exactly one month later they slowly but surely wrested the initiative back from England after conceding the earliest goal in a European Championship Final. NobodyContinue reading “Euros 2020: Best tournament for 50 years.”

The Euros Last 16 – a fantastic feast of fulminating football.

At its very best football can be so enthralling and intoxicating to watch that it is actually exhausting. The perfect mixture for a match involves moments of high quality, high drama and even the odd bit of misfortune to provide a dose of reality amongst the dream sequence. There also needs to be a degreeContinue reading “The Euros Last 16 – a fantastic feast of fulminating football.”