Sam Matthews Boehmer

The hunt for a trainer: Joshua and Raducanu

Although seemingly on two very different trajectories, Emma Raducanu and Anthony Joshua have found themselves in a rather similar plight over the past couple of months: both, for albeit different reasons, are on the difficult hunt for a new coach. For those of us who are more familiar with team...
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Posted Nov. 1, 2021

Champions League Matchday Three round-up

Events are beginning to take shape in the UEFA Champions League after an entertaining round of matches that began to give an indication of which teams can go far in the competition, and which are desperately looking to simply make it out of the groups. On Tuesday, one of the...
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Posted Oct. 21, 2021

Tyson Fury the favourite to defeat Deontay Wilder in trilogy

Finally, after the usual war of words and increasing tension that usually precedes a Tyson Fury fight, his trilogy bout with Deontay Wilder will get underway at 11pm GMT. For once in his career, perhaps even the first time, Fury will be the favourite, having roundly out-boxed and felled Wilder...
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Posted Oct. 9, 2021

Leamington’s FA Cup woes continue against Kettering

Having failed to make it out of the FA Cup third qualifying round for 15 consecutive years, it was at this hurdle that Leamington FC once again fell, losing out 2-0 away at Kettering, having forced a replay with a 3-3 draw at home. When the draw was announced, this...
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Posted Oct. 7, 2021

Europe thrashed by Team USA in Ryder Cup humiliation

After winning eight out of the last nine Ryder Cups, in the run-up to this year’s delayed iteration, you may have thought that this dominant European team were surely set for another triumph. With a team full of legends like Ian Poulter and Rory McIlroy, and backed up by a...
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Posted Sep. 27, 2021

The fight that no-one wanted: Anthony Joshua vs Oleksandr Usyk

Around six months ago, everybody thought that Anthony Joshua’s next fight would be up against fellow Brit Tyson Fury, a title unification fight that undoubtedly would have been one of the biggest of all time. However, after the news was announced that Deontay Wilder had exercised a clause in his...
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Posted Sep. 24, 2021

Emma Raducanu wins the US Open

One of the greatest ever sporting moments in British history took place last night as the 18-year-old qualifier Emma Raducanu, in only her fourth senior tournament, beat Leylah Fernandez to win the US Open, the first time a British woman has won the event since Virginia Wade in 1968. At...
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Posted Sep. 12, 2021

Emma Raducanu makes US Open final

In a turn of events that is on its way to matching Team GB’s Olympics and England’s Euros as the highlight of Britain’s sporting summer, 18-year-old Emma Raducanu continued her fairy-tale American journey by making the US Open final last night, after a straight sets victory over Maria Sakkari. Sakkari,...
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Posted Sep. 10, 2021

A return to team sports after Covid-19

What’s this running thing that everybody at uni keeps talking about? And who is Joe Wicks? Unless you have been quite literally living under a rock for the past 14 months, you can probably answer both of these questions. Most likely you, or someone in your immediate family, have tried...
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Posted Aug. 20, 2021

Premier League returns with a bang

It was as if it has never been away. After a hiatus of a few months, where we were entertained adequately by the Euros, the thrills and spills of the Premier League are back. Whether you are a fan of one of the top flight’s clubs, and were desperately following...
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Posted Aug. 16, 2021