Ten years ago this week, Liverpool faced a similar predicament to the one they face at Anfield tonight. Thanks to Florent Sinama Pongolle, Neil Mellor and Stevie Gerrard a two goal deficit was overturned during a historic night at Anfield. ...
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Blind Cricket World Cup 2014
Emdad Rahman interviews England Blind Cricket star Mahomed Khatri. With the senior team toiling in Sri Lanka, it has been left to the England Blind Cricket Team to raise the banner aloft for England. A magnificent tournament saw Matt Dean’s ...
Read More »Three points for Rangers as Shiels scores winner
Rangers 1-0 Cowdenbeath Emdad Rahman reports from Ibrox Stadium 28,000 fans watched Rangers earn a hard fought 1-0 win over Cowdenbeath to consolidate second spot behind Hearts of Midlothian in the race for the Scottish Championship. The laboured three points ...
Read More »England to take on rivals Australia for final spot in Blind World Cup Semi Final
England’s Blind World Cup team were defeated by Sri Lanka by 90 runs yesterday in what was described by head coach Ross Hunter as ‘“A tough day again when you play the sub-continent teams, but a fantastic effort by all ...
Read More »Ben Day: “Boxing didn’t change my life – it saved it”
Emdad Rahman Tucked in behind Chrisp Street Market is the Lansbury Boxing Club. Like the best ones, it’s old fashioned. I’m here to meet Ben “the Entertainer” Day, unbeaten Light Welterweight and owner of the Ringtone Gym in Euston. We ...
Read More »Interview with England Visually Impaired Cricket Captain
Matt Dean: “I’m confident that England will put on a good show at the World Cup” Interview by Emdad Rahman Matt Dean is in a confident mood. The right handed batsman has been playing blind cricket for over a decade ...
Read More »The top five Scotland -v- England clashes
Emdad Rahman For me as a young fan growing up, England and Scotland football clashes were one of the highly anticipated games in the football calendar. There wasn’t a lot of live football during the 80s and it was a ...
Read More »Cook and England are ready for World Cup
Captain speaks ahead of Sri Lanka series Emdad Rahman National captain Alistair Cook is confident that England are on the verge of a successful new dawn as England get ready to fly off to Sri Lanka as part of their ...
Read More »Ian Bell looking forward to Sri Lanka tour
Emdad Rahman Warwickshire batsman Ian Bell has hailed the appointment of Mark Ramprakash to the England coaching set up and says that the tour of Sri Lanka is crucial in building up team morale and rapport in the run up ...
Read More »Unsung heroes at hailed at NatWest OSCAs
Emdad Rahman Former and current England stars Michael Vaughan, Lydia Greenway, Jenny Gunn and Graeme Swann joined in to celebrate and recognise the impact made by grass-roots volunteers at the NatWest Outstanding Service to cricket awards (OSCAs) for 2014. The ...
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