London Sports
English folk are mad about sports and you’ll find plenty of interesting stories from the field of play here.
Wimbledon
The Wimbledon Tennis Championships played on the famous grass courts of the All England Club in southwest London are one of the highlights of the sporting year in Britain and probably the most coverted titles to win for any tennis player.
The tournament at Wimbledon lasts for two weeks, this year from 23 June-6 July 2008, with the very best players in the world competing in mens and womens singles, doubles, mixed doubles and junior events. There are nineteen courts in use at Wimbledon allowing fans a great chance to see some action. The two main show courts are Centre Court which seats 14,000 and No.1 Court which seats 11,000.
Date: May 3rd, 2008 |
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The University Boat Race
The 154th Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge Universities will take place this Saturday 29 March 2008, starting at 5.15pm. One of the sporting indicators that Spring has arrived, the Boat Race takes place over a 4.25 mile stretch of the River Thames from Putney to Mortlake.
Coxed crews of eight represent each university and the calibre of rower in each boat is usually world class. These are not 18 year old undergraduates but seasoned international oarsmen from around the world doing further study at Oxford or Cambridge, many of whom will have World Championship or even Olympic experience.
Date: March 24th, 2008 |
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London to stage NFL games from 2008-10
The NFL has announced that London will host a regular season game in each of the next three years with the 2008 game being the New Orleans Saints v San Diego Chargers taking place at Wembley Stadium on 26 October.
Last October Wembley staged the first regular season NFL game outside of North America when the New York Giants played the Miami Dolphins and that game sold out in record time so there’s clearly a market for the sport in the UK. Tickets aren’t yet available for this autumn’s game but anyone interested in buying one should register on the NFLUK website.
Date: February 3rd, 2008 |
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London weekend football
It’s another important football weekend with this week’s big game taking place at the Emirates Stadium where Premiership leaders Arsenal take on the oligarch’s plaything aka Chelsea on Sunday. Arsenal are over due a victory against Abramovich’s boys but injuries made the possibility look unlikely. Now it seems key players Cesc Fabregas and Robin van Persie might be fit to play which will definitely help the Gunners chances.
As you would expect that game’s sold out but here are some others in London this weekend that you might get tickets for.
Date: December 14th, 2007 |
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Design for London's Olympic Stadium unveiled
Britain’s Olympic Delivery Authority today unveiled the design for the London 2012 Olympic Stadium which will be the centre piece of the Olympic park that is being built over the next five years at Stratford in East London.
Its going to be an 80,000 seater although once the games have finished 55,000 will be removed and the stadium will retain only 25,000 seats as an athletics venue and possibly one for a rugby club or lower league football club, Leyton Orient being the obvious choice.
The stadium is design by architects HOK Sport whose previous projects include
Date: November 7th, 2007 |
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London Marathon
This Sunday 13 April sees the 28th annual running of the London Marathon. Around 46,000 runners will attempt to complete the 26 miles and 385 yards from Blackheath near Greenwich to the finish on The Mall a few hundred yards in front of Buckingham Palace, and in the process draw hundreds of thousands of spectators onto the streets of central London in what is one of the biggest events in the capital all year.
The runners assemble at Greenwich Park and there are three different starting points, Blue for the Elite Men, Elite Women and the Elite Mens and Womens Wheelchair races, Green for celebrity runners and Red for the Mass Start.
Date: April 10th, 2008 |
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Brazil-Sweden Tickets
Tickets for the Brazil v Sweden football friendly at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium are now on general sale to the public. The game is taking place on Wednesday 26 March 2008 with kickoff at 7.45pm.
This is Brazil’s third trip to the Emirates in the last couple of years and the previous two games have had a good atmosphere. Tickets for this month’s game are on sale from £30-£40 and can be booked online at
Date: March 5th, 2008 |
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Brazil to play Sweden at the Emirates
Brazil are returning to London to play Sweden in a friendly football international on Wednesday 26th March 2008 with the game taking place at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium. This will be the third year in a row that the Brazilian national team have played at the Emirates, they beat Argentina 3-0 there in September 2006 and lost 2-0 to Portugal in February 2007.
I went to both matches which were sellouts
Date: January 15th, 2008 |
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BlackRock Masters Tennis 2007
The Royal Albert Hall is generally known as a fantastic venue for music and concerts but this week it will be staging one of its occasional sporting events when the BlackRock Masters Tennis tournament takes place from 4-9 December.
Its the season ending event of the BlackRock Tour of Champions and features a field of 12 including the top seven players on the tour rankings plus five wild cards. To play on the BlackRock Tour a player must no longer be active on the ATP Tour and have either been ranked number 1 in the world, a singles finalist in a Grand Slam championship or a singles player on a winning Davis Cup team.
The 12 players are split into four groups of three and the first two days are a series of
Date: December 2nd, 2007 |
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The NFL Explained
The ground-breaking first regular season NFL game outside of North America takes place at London’s Wembley Stadium on Sunday and it’ll be interesting to see how much attention it draws from the British media and casual sports fan. Not a great deal would be my guess, even though the game’s a sellout and there are a lot of people in the UK, myself included, who love the NFL and American Foootball.
A lot of the press coverage I’ve read this week keeps harping back to the 1980s and exhibition games teams played over here, and Wiiliam ‘Refrigerator’ Perry still seems the only player many sports journalists have heard of. The Miami Dolphins’ cheerleaders have been doing their bit to raise awareness, posing at locations around town and even performing at halftime
Date: October 26th, 2007 |
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