Horses Oasis & Racing? Owners Have “Definitely Maybe” Been Naming Horses After the Tracks It’s finally happening! Those Gallagher brothers have ironed out their differences to take the greatest band of the 90s on tour in 2025. Music lovers rejoice as Heaton Park, the Principality Stadium, Murrayfield, Croke Park, and Wembley Stadium brace themselves for what has rapidly become the biggest music event of… Continue Reading
Football City Claim First Silverware of 2024/25 with Community Shield Win Do Simone Biles or other Olympic legends, such as swimmer Leon Marchand, get bored of winning gold medals? Do Real Madrid tire of winning the Champions League? And, do Pep Guardiola and his Man City team get fed up with their constant stream of silverware? In all cases, we strongly… Continue Reading
Football How the Abu Dhabi Takeover Changed Manchester City Forever When the final whistle blew on the 2023-2024 Premier League season, history had been made. Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City side had won the top-flight title for the fourth time in succession, having also won it on six out of the seven previous occasions that it had taken place. Only the… Continue Reading
Football Manchester v Liverpool Rivalry in Football Supporters of teams in London will often claim there is a bitter rivalry between them all, but in truth only really Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur can claim to have any sort of genuine enmity towards one another. In the midlands, the likes of Aston Villa and Birmingham City or Leicester… Continue Reading
Football Alex Ferguson’s Racehorses Mention the name of Alex Ferguson to pretty much anyone who has ever paid any attention to the news and they will be able to tell you that he used to be a football manager. In fact, he was one of the most successful football managers of all time, with… Continue Reading
Football Can Man City Continue Their Historic Premier League Run? The arrival of Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan and the Abu Dhabi Group at Manchester City in 2008 changed the fortunes not only of the football club, but also of the very sport itself. Though it took the club three years to win its first silverware, securing the FA… Continue Reading
Bookies Battle of the Bookies – Victor Chandler Wins £1m Man United Bet from Fred Done It is fair to say that a lot of bookmakers tend to enjoy a flutter. They love it the most when you have a flutter with them and you lose, meaning that they get to take your money, but many of them also got into the trade in the first… Continue Reading
Horses Manchester Bookie Fred Done to Turn Manchester Racecourse into an “Urban Village” Elsewhere on this site you can read more detail about Castle Irwell, which was once considered to be Manchester’s answer to the likes of Aintree Racecourse and Haydock Park Racecourse, both of which are to be found on the outskirts of Liverpool. There has been no such course in the… Continue Reading
Football Best Team in Manchester: Have Man United or Man City Won More Trophies? Given the enmity between the city of Manchester and that of Liverpool, it no doubt rankles supporters of both teams that it is Liverpool Football Club that sit at the top of the tree in terms of major trophies won by an English team. That doesn’t stop the Red Devils… Continue Reading
Bookies Fred Done Wrongly Paid Out on Man United Winning the League TWICE Anyone that has ever placed a bet before will know how difficult it is to try to get some money out of a bookmaker. It is usually like trying to get blood out of a stone, with the bookies searching for reasons not to pay you if they can find… Continue Reading