Tim Worstall

Now, look, imagine this. You’re turning out for some village third rugby team. You’re crap, you know it, you’re there for a wander around in the mud and a few pints afterwards. I have been known to play this sort of rugby myself it being the level and standard to which I am suited.
You turn [...]

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A world away from home Andy Murray keeps hopes of a nation at arm’s length
Australian Open finalist plays down the pressure of a chance to be the first British man to win a Grand Slam in 74 years
Maybe it’s me that’s got it wrong. I thought there were four major tournaments, each of which can [...]

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England, at training camp in the Algarve,
Would be fun to pop down if I knew where to pop to……

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Yech.
We’re gonna get creamed by Dan Carter’s boys.

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I like this idea:
Instead of lighting an Olympic flame, the Island Games have a water ceremony. Each team brings a flask of water from its island’s shores and pours it into a central fountain, which runs for the duration of the Games.

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Well done, cracking match, you deserved it.
However, d’ye think you could have let this bloke write his article before you got him drunk rather than after?

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Which way should it break?
A black man or a white woman?
Umm, didn’t we just see the Americans trying this question out?

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Football Association laws dictate that from this season, the results of matches between children aged seven and eight must not be published, league tables must not be kept and prizes must not be given out.
Some local associations have chosen to extend the regulations even further, it [...]

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Tee hee.

Historians in Surrey have documentary proof that the game was being played in the UK before America.
A diary entry which talks about a game played in Guildford, Surrey in 1755 has been verified as authentic by the Surrey History Centre.
The handwritten entry was discovered in the diary of [...]

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But I did, I’m sorry, I’m a very bad boy.

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Polly keeps telling us that there really isn’t a global market in talent. That people here in the UK just use that as an explanation for widening inequality, an explanation that simply isn’t true.

Britain risks losing its top coaches to rival countries keen to restore their national pride in London 2012, Olympic chiefs gave warning [...]

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Of course, lottery funding does not come from general taxation and is not parcelled out in Whitehall. The reason it has been effective in sport is that resources were marshalled accurately.

Resources were marshalled accurately because they were not parcelled out in Whitehall.

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…now we are in the freakish position of being two places above the convicts in the medals table…

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Olympics? Ancient Rome?

In the Olympics in Ancient Rome, the powerfully built swimmers (nude, like all the sportsmen, so the crowds could better appreciate the mastery of the human body) swam in the rolling currents of the Tiber.

Is it me or Kate Rew that’s had a brain spasm over the Greeks and Olympia?

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High school cheerleading accounted for 65.1 percent of all catastrophic sports injuries among high school females over the past 25 years.

I’m assuming that getting pregnant by the quarterback is being defined here as a catastrophic injury….

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"You shouldn’t make a man pick between his woman and his football team. I don’t care who she is but he is better off without her."

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Well, yes:

But hang on a minute. You’re eighth in the world at a sport! Admittedly, a slightly weird sport, but eighth! That’s brilliant! I’m not eighth in the world at anything.

But, umm, as far as I can work out, there’s only 8 (teams of) competitors in the synchronised diving at the Olympics.

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George asks us for favourite moments in Olympic history.
I offer you John Stephen Akwhari.

Not long after the start of the marathon at the Mexico Olympics, Akhwari fell down and was badly injured, because he was not used to the climate of Central America. The other runners passed him one after another, and his chance of [...]

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This rather surprises really, that Portsmouth fans are considered the ugliest in the Premiership.

According to research by Sky HD, the south coast club have the least attractive fans in English football’s top flight – but Liverpool have at last landed a domestic title, being judged by scouts from model [...]

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From the time trial on stage 4, the public can view Millar’s file, which showed that he produced a power output of approximately 5.4 watts per kg. He placed third on the stage. This power is impressive but certainly doesn’t break any physiological records; it’s about what you’d expect from a clean rider in peak [...]

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