Bruce Grobbelaar retired to Corner Brook, Newfoundland, of all places. He also played for the Vancouver Whitecaps. One of his teammates there: former Saints player and manager, Alan Ball. The coach of the men's national team is also English: John Herdman. He was previously the coach of the women's team, where it was always amusing to note that he was often about the shortest person in team huddles (he's a teensy little guy, but apparently good at the coaching thing).
The Beeb are going to show highlights of the final but there is no way that i'm missing this live seeing it starts at 9pm tomorrow night. It is the most interested i've been in a woman's tennis match since the Wimbledon final in 1977 when I was 15!
Emma has not dropped a set or even gone to 7-5 and has lost only a grand total of 27 games (average 2.25 games per set) in her 6 matches such has been her dominance, remarkable stuff.
Grobbelaar of course was a Zimbabwean rather than an Englishman, but I'll let it pass (just as Bruce used to, if the price was right. Allegedly.)
Meant connections to English football. He took a very unusual path: signed with Vancouver as a youngster and moved from there to Liverpool, at a time when North American soccer consisted largely of nobodies and old dudes. And then retired to just about the most remote corner of Canada one can find, and we have some fairly remote corners. (North American soccer still consists largely of nobodies and old dudes).
She won the 2nd set of her 2nd round quali match 7-5, but apart from that it’s 9 straight matches without losing more than 4 games in a set. Quite incredible!
Hamilton, on the mediums, 4 tenths quicker than Verstappen in first practice, who produced his fastest lap on the softs. Advantage Mercedes.
Tennis final to be shown live on channel 4 tonight Wonder what deal they’ve done with Prime for that!
I've got Prime so doesn't affect me but well done Amazon and well done Channel 4. Had to get it on free-to-air TV.
For me it was Serena Williams demolishing Maria Sharapova in the women's singles final at the London Olympics. It was sheer brutality.
