In years gone by it was somewhat accepted that women would earn less prize money than their male counterparts. The feminists amongst us would take issue with this, but in reality they were unable to do very much in a male dominated sport. Men, in general, were seen as the...

I've already heralded Wimbledon, as an event, the greatest sporting tournament in the world, and Wimbledon 2012 has proven to be the best of its kind in my memory. It had it all; shocks, fairytales and plenty a headline story.

There seems to be no other...

He is one half of Barcelona's passing carousel, as Sir Alex Ferguson called it. He is the glue that binds the World's best club team and the World's best team together. Standing at 5"7 one wouldn't have thought that Xavi Hernandez would be the supreme footballer that he is.

In...

There are few, if any, other sporting tournaments in the world that embody tradition as much as Wimbledon. As the sun beats down upon the lush green grass on the first Monday we prepare ourselves for a mouth-watering fortnight. Very rarely does it disappoint, perhaps in 2002 it was underwhelming...

Sipping Earl Grey from a china mug whilst reading the Telegraph following a strenuous coffee morning at the Country Club - stereotypically British. True, this is a stereotype that would be recognised worldwide, but as a sports fan what does it mean to be quintessentially British?

It would seem appropriate...

Anyone who has even the remotest interest in the sporting world will be well aware of the "sporting cliché". Banded around so often they become irksome, here are some of the most loathsome.

"Give 110%" - first and foremost I never want to hear this again. Secondly, for the...

Men:In the lead up to the world's finest sporting tournament we have seen two results that, historically, would have typified the clay court season. Two of the world's top three players were upset in Halle. On the back of his record breaking French Open triumph, Rafael Nadal was beaten by...

Since 2009 we have talked about a "big four", more recently a "big four". Andy Murray, the best British tennis player for decades, was a well established member of the so called "big four". Recently, however, he has been ruthlessly jettisoned from this prestigious group as Djokovic, Nadal and the...

Liverpool fans dubbed him "King Kenny" after his much heralded playing career and with reason. He was a truly terrific footballer who would have been befitting for any great footballing stage. Yet, as we all should know, one cannot draw a regular parallel between a great playing career and a...

Football has long been perceived a sport for the working classes - a theory that must be dispelled. For now it is a sport, if indeed it ever wasn't, that encompasses the majority of the population, from the intellectual genius of Stephen Fry to Essex reality television personality, Mark Wright....

He quotes Nietzsche with the most basic of grammatical errors, tries and ultimately fails to make proper sense of George Orwell - for this we can offer a sympathetic hand, not everyone is cut out to make heads or tails of the world's most famous philosophers. What we cannot forgive...

Usain Bolt is the best ever, Anna Kournikova wasn't - just to clear that up before people get on their high horses and start to make references to athletic ability. I have no intention to compare their relative skill levels in the respective disciplines, but as a certain Mr Robert...

Come 29 May, England's new man at the helm, Mr Roy Hodgson, will have completed his first major task as manager of England. Said task is to pick a 23 man squad to launch an assault on the European Championships which start in Kiev on 1 June. Given the notorious...

There is no rivalry akin to Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal. It is simply the best individual sporting rivalry in the world, no questions asked. You look across the sporting world and find either complete dominance by one individual or such a dearth of quality throughout the sport that it...