Fifty eight years ago today – July 30th 1966 – England’s men’s football team won the World Cup. Despite the best efforts of Gareth Southgate and those before him, it remains the only trophy they’ve ever lifted. And it was on home territory. Goodison Park, Villa Park, Ayresome Park (Middlesborough) – and possibly your local…
England are set to face South Africa in the Rugby World Cup semi-final this Saturday night, at the Stade de France, in Saint Denis – the victor will face either Argentina or New Zealand in Sunday’s grand final. Among those in the Red Roses are two with connections to Nottingham, George Martin, and Ollie Chessum,…
On Saturday 29th July 2023, Stuart Broad announced his retirement from cricket, at stumps, on day three of the fifth Ashes test, partway through a ninth wicket stand with his old side-kick and mate James Anderson still besides him at the crease, midst a vital match at the Oval, one which England felt they could…
Another international match, another win and clean sheet, and another trophy in the bag for Nottingham-born Lioness, Mary Earps, following England’s penalty shoot-out success, on Thursday night, in the Finalissima, against Brazil. Earps, who was born in our fair, old county, and began her career with West Bridgford Colts, and had an early spell with…
“Pinch me, it don’t feel real.” Mary Earps, Paris, February 2023 European Championship winner, two-time Arnold Clark Cup winner, the first ‘keeper to reach fifty clean sheets in the Women’s Super League, and now, Nottingham-born, Manchester United shot-stopper, Mary Earps, has been named the best in the world. The Lionesses number one, who was born…
There’s a heady list of past athletes to have played more than on sport in the county of Nottinghamshire, and we’ve already covered a few of those, but, surely up there, in the echelons of the greats, is Nottingham-born, rugby union legend, Vincent Cartwright. A recipient of both the DSO (Distinguished Service Order) and the…
Ben Duckett became the first Nottinghamshire batsman to score a century for England since Stuart Broad in 2010 as he hit a super-fast 107 from 110 balls in a record-breaking day in Rawalpindi. The tourists first test match for seventeen years in Pakistan included a bludgeoning batting display started by Duckett and his opening partner…
It wasn’t quite the redemption innings he’d have hoped for but nonetheless the inclusion of maverick batter Alex Hales was fully justified by Sunday lunchtime gone as the returning Nottinghamshire player helped England to win the ICC T20 World Cup after three years of international exodus. After bowling out Pakistan in the final for just…
England Women will play their first-ever five day test match at Trent Bridge next summer as they take on Australia in the Ashes in a cricket first for the two teams involved. Previously the England women’s team have only played four day matches and will for the first time at Trent Bridge, face Australia over…
Alex Hales has received his first England call up since 2019 after the Notts Outlaws and Trent Rockets star batter was selected as a replacement for the time-out taking Jonny Bairstow for the upcoming Twenty20 World Cup. After helping Trent Rockets to winning the Hundred over the last month, Hales who has had a turbulent…
If you’re considering bowing out of football, then why not after your last game played in a major international final at a sell-out Wembley Stadium in a match where you lead the attacking line for England against their biggest of arch-rivals in Germany, following an extra-time victory that clinches the European Championships and a first…
Congratulations to the England Women’s Football Team who beat Germany in dramatic late fashion at Wembley Stadium yesterday to lift the European Championships trophy, a first major tournament win for a senior England side since 1966. 31.7.22 will always be forever remembered as the day ‘our women’ brought football home, and the party will continue……
As England’s Lionesses take to the hallowed turf of Wembley Stadium, on Sunday (31 July), against old foes Germany, in the final of the 2022 Women’s European Championships, there will be interest for those of a Nottingham persuasion, in shot-stopper Mary Earps. Currently playing in the Women’s Super League, with Manchester United, the former German…
There’s a video of a young girl doing the rounds on social media, probably no older than five or six-years-old, dancing and singing arms up in the air to ‘Sweet Caroline’ after England Women’s comprehensive victory over Sweden in the semi-finals of the European Championships at Bramall Lane last night. Not the furthest England have…
Two Nottingham stars of sport and software have today announced a new partnership, as local business Ideagen becomes the official sponsor of Trent Rockets and England all-rounder Natalie Sciver. Speaking about the new relationship, Ideagen CEO, Ben Dorks, said: “Nat perfectly personifies Ideagen as a business – she’s an innovator, she’s widely regarded as one…
England 539 & 299/5 v New Zealand 553 & 284 (Test Match) 10.06.22-14.06.22 *five day match England win by five wickets England and New Zealand played out a real classic at Trent Bridge with five full days of full crowds packing in to West Bridgford to witness the second in a three-match series, starting Friday…
Leicestershire Foxes 123-127/5 Notts Outlaws (T20 Blast North Group) 10.06.22 Going into the match in a precarious seventh place and eight points behind leaders Lancashire in the North Group of the Vitality Blast twenty20 competition, the Notts Outlaws bounced back with a resounding five wicket victory over Leicestershire Foxes at Grace Road. The home side…
With the test match due to get underway tomorrow and the county cricket season in full swing, we take a look at some of the highest and best statistical records at one of England’s premier cricket grounds, Trent Bridge, the home of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. Highest test total: In an Ashes match from 1938,…
The legendary home ground of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, Trent Bridge, will host the second of the three-match test series between England and New Zealand starting this Friday. The hosts won the opening game after a magnificent unbeaten century from former captain Joe Root on what was Ben Stokes debut as skipper. New Zealand have…
After England’s failure down under it has understandably led to major changes in the latest Test squad with players and coaches from the miserable Ashes series departing like London buses for a new pool of untried talent, the two Nottinghamshire stars Haseeb Hameed and more notably Stuart Broad, emitted for the three match Caribbean series…
