Beeston Ladies started their season with a bang beating Wimbledon, who many have tipped for the title, 2-1 away from home on the opening day. This marked the first time Beeston ladies have beaten Wimbledon at Raynes Park. Wimbledon started the stronger of the two sides and dominated the early proceedings, and despite a series…
Twenty plus degree heat, a ten-hour day, eight touchdowns, and a near fifty-point game was endured this past weekend as the Nottingham Sport took in the British American Football Association (BAFA) Division One Northern Play-Off Final between the Nottingham Caesars, and hosts Northumberland Vikings. Unfortunately for the Caesars, it wasn’t to be, the hosts eventually…
A 31-0 whitewash of visiting Chester Romans last time around for Bryce Stevenson’s Northumberland Vikings set up a tantalising, Northern Final with the Nottingham Caesars, this Sunday (3 September) afternoon. A clash that’s been mooted, discussed, bandied about for quite a while now, finally comes to fruition as two of the NFC1 champions go head-to-head…
Nottingham Caesars centre, Sam Fraser, returned to British soil during this past winter, following a Germanic sojourn which saw him experience playing American Football at German third tier outfit, Biberach Beavers. Fraser, now 24-years-old, has already racked up a number of years playing ‘Americas Game,’ the qualified physiotherapist having initially took up the sport when…
Sunday afternoon in the north-east, Nottingham Caesars are the visitors of the Northumberland Vikings in the Northern Play-Off Final, with a place in the Premiership North up for grabs. The Caesars, like their north-east counterparts, have had an unbeaten season, Vanden Warner’s side currently on an eleven-game winning streak following last weekends’ 29-6 win at…
As Beeston Ladies 1s prepare to return to the field ahead of the new Premier Division season they have been strengthened by the addition of several new signings for the 2023/2024 season. Head Coach James Sordillo has secured a number of signings in the off season with defenders Lottie Summers joining from Barnes Hockey Club…
Nobody has written more words over the last three years than our Senior Correspondent Peter Mann. What started with an article on golf, about Oakmere Park near Oxton, hosting the PGA Assistant’s Championship in 2020, continued into football, women’s football in particular, which Peter is a huge advocate of, the non-league game where he’s interviewed…
Fred Mann, a defender, Ken Mann, a winger, and Peter Mann, a centre half-forward, and with club nicknames like the Redlegs and the Bombers, the Sharks and the Bulldogs, and an unlikely connection throughout the history of Australian Rules Football, with the East Midlands city of, Nottingham, England. At the start of May, 1878, a…
NFC One South champions, play-offs bound, undefeated, it’s been an incredible season so far for Vanden Warner and the Nottingham Caesars – but they’re not done yet, far from it. For the first time since 1995, and only the second time in their history, the Caesars have completed an undefeated, regular season; this time around,…
What do football supporters do all summer? Flick through TikTok, tittle-tattle and back-page gossip, I suppose, but it hardly fills the gap left by the game’s close-season. So it’s out with the bikes and maps and a couple of mates finding a week to spare and we’re set for the first leg of a well-known…
Antwerp, 1920, and Paris, 1924, not your everyday connection to the grand old city of Nottingham, especially taking into consideration they were years of the Olympic Games. However, Nottingham, and the county as a whole, does have a historical connection to the Games through one of Nottingham’s earliest, sporting daughters, Constance ‘Connie’ Mabel Jeans, she…
The Basque region of Northern Spain, and Bilbao, the venue of the Grand Depart of the 2023 Tour de France, is also where Nottingham’s James Shaw, and his EF Education-EasyPost Pro Cycling team are for the three week extravaganza. A total of 21 stages begins in Bilbao, this weekend, before heading to Vitoria-Gastiez-San Sebastian for…
Written by Nigel Clark, Lawn Tennis Correspondent of the Daily Mirror in 1976. It was the day when the rain came . . . the soaking Saturday when two of the world’s great tennis stars gave the game back to the public. llie Nastase of Rumania. and Jimmy Connors of the United States, proved that…
Andy Murray beat Arthur Cazaux of France to win the Rothesay Nottingham Open men’s singles title and the two-time Wimbledon champion had the perfect father’s day present when post-game, he realised his wife and children were in the audience to watch him win 6-4, 6-4, as he prepares the necessary steps ahead of his return…
It was a great day for the Brits at the Rothesay Nottingham Open on Thursday as all four matches on centre court went the way of home favour, underneath hot sunny skies at Highfields, Katie Boulter, Harriet Dart, Jodie Burrage and Andy Murray all won by two straight sets to make the Quarter Finals of…
On a sad and sombre day in Nottingham, sport in the aftermath and its outcomes may have rightly taken a back seat after the devastating news of a tragic event that occurred in the small hours of Tuesday morning, but tennis continued at Beeston Highfields for the Rothsay Nottingham Open and day two of the…
The Rothesay Open Nottingham began today with first round wins for GB’s Heather Watson and favourite, first seed Maria Sakkari of Greece in the women’s competition, whilst the men’s opening two matches saw Brit-born Arthur Fery’s match with Steve Johnson Jnr of the US halted by the weather, whilst Sho Shimabukuro of Japan beat another…
As starts to a season go, that enjoyed by Vanden Warner’s Nottingham Caesars in the current, British American Football Association (BAFA) NFC1 South campaign, is one to excite Nottingham, and the East Midlands as a whole. Albeit beginning a little later than other sides, the Caesars never let that fact distract them from the job…
Yorkshire League Division One, four games in for a couple of clubs, and it’s already becoming a season of first for the Nottingham Outlaws Rugby League outfit, despite having lost their opening two matches. An opening day, 46-10 humping at home to Hull Wyke, was sharp followed by a narrow, 28-24 loss against hosts, Cutsyke…
Nottingham born boxer Leigh Wood is WBA Featherweight Champion of the world, again, after beating Mauricio Lara in his rematch fight in Manchester on Saturday night. Mexican Lara stopped Wood in the seventh round in Nottingham three months ago but the 34-year-old wasted little time in putting that record straight, dominating a fight that went…
