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Hacker: Right to Protest »

November, 2010. You’re Blackburn Rovers; you’re 14th in the league after a solid start to the campaign, coming off the back of a tenth-place finish the previous season, and Sam Allardyce is your manager. You might not be about to storm th...

Wed 01 Feb 2012 by Sean Gibson | Read more »

Hacker - Return of the Geriatricos »

It has come to the attention of Hacker that 2012 appears to be a lost year of the 20th century, what with Manchester United bringing back Scholes, Arsenal bringing back Henry and Liverpool bringing back racism. The club are quick to condemn the kind of...

Wed 18 Jan 2012 by Jamie Timson | Read more »

Hacker: The artificial grass is always greener... »

Astroturf campaign could put the Tea Party to shame

It isn’t often that the words of an English League One board member set off the alarm bells on The Journal’s sportsdesk, but Brian Kane, vice-charman at Wycombe Wanderers, managed just that last week with his musings on a return to artifici...

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Sean Gibson | Read more »

Hacker: The End of the Entertainers? »

Jon Daly

The world of sport has, it seems, taken a turn for the serious. Everywhere you look there is an allegation of something insidious. The John Terry/Anton Ferdinand saga - punctuated bafflingly by various Chelsea and England alumni proclaiming JT as a &ld...

Wed 16 Nov 2011 by Jamie Timson | Read more »

Hacker: The artificial grass is always greener... »

It isn’t often that the words of an English League One board member set off the alarm bells on The Journal’s sportsdesk, but Brian Kane, vice-charman at Wycombe Wanderers, managed just that last week with his musings on a return to artifici...

Wed 16 Nov 2011 by Sean Gibson | Read more »

Hacker: 'The modern game' »

The art of tackling is dying on its arse. This isn’t so much a creeping realisation as it is a bald truth that has only been reinforced by the latest in a long line of high-profile incidents. Jack Rodwell’s red card in the recent Merseysi...

Wed 02 Nov 2011 by Sean Gibson | Read more »

The Denis Irwin Complex »

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This generation has brought unprecedented 24-hour coverage of worldwide sport. However, it has riddled the world of sporting analysis with a syndrome that is yet to be eradicated. The term underrated is widely ascribed in the sporting world; rarely is ...

Wed 19 Oct 2011 by Jamie Timson | Read more »

Ha-Ha-Hamilton not amused by stuttering form »

Hamilton left fuming again

Whatever cocktail of emotions currently bubbles away inside Lewis Hamilton, one certain ingredient must be pure bewilderment. Having long ago been knocked off his pedestal, the former champion is still in freefall – with his humility-parachute s...

Wed 05 Oct 2011 by Sean Gibson | Read more »

Hacker: No success please, we're British »

A lot of British sports fans are masochists. The pain has become so ingrained that it is now part of the pleasure. Think Gazza’s tears, think Murray’s glorious failures, and think of Scotland’s 14 years and counting of missing interna...

Wed 14 Sep 2011 by Jamie Timson | Read more »

Hacker: Five things we’ve learnt from the 2010/2011 Season »

Wayne Rooney

1. Wayne Rooney isn’t as stupid as he looks…but then neither is Fergie. When in October Wayne issued a statement declaring he would not be signing a new contract at Manchester United, it seemed that the double Glazer-ing had finally fal...

Wed 04 May 2011 by Jamie Timson | Read more »

Hacker: Pedal to the Vettel »

Sebastian Vettel

On the face of it, little has changed over the winter; Sebastian Vettel has been serene out front, Jenson Button is still Mr. Consistency, Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton have reinforced their frosty relationship with a high speed collision and Fel...

Wed 20 Apr 2011 by Sean Gibson | Read more »

Hacker: It's time for professional sport to come out of the closet »

Steven Davies, the England and Surrey wicket-keeper, has this week become the first professional cricketer to come out as a homosexual. It may not appear to be a big deal, and it really shouldn’t be, but to just look at the coverage the story We...

Sun 06 Mar 2011 | Read more »

Hacker: Striking a nerve »

AC Milan's Gennaro Gattuso

There’s always something to get your teeth into where football is concerned – particularly in these days of mass media – and you learn to take small bites. However, the fare offered up in the last few weeks has been so irresistible t...

Wed 23 Feb 2011 by Sean Gibson | Read more »

Hacker: Lance Armstrong – The man, the myth, the leg-end of the road? »

Lance Armstrong

On 2 October 1996, a 25-year-old American is diagnosed with stage three testicular cancer. The doctors give him only a 40 per cent chance of survival. Less than three years later this individual wins the toughest competition in professional sport &ndas...

Wed 09 Feb 2011 by Jamie Timson | Read more »

Hacker: The crooked journey »

I think 2010 for British Sport can be summed up by a jockey winning BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, emphasised by a darts player coming second. I’m not going to discuss the merits of a jockey winning the award (despite being of the &lsq...

Wed 26 Jan 2011 | Read more »

Hacker: The Best F1 Season Yet? »

Sebastian Vettel

The 2010 Formula One championships was a classic: an amazing, vintage season which, even though a Briton didn’t win this time, certainly beat 2008. I found myself somewhat neutral, as I'm a Lewis Hamilton fan and he didn't really have a chance: w...

Wed 24 Nov 2010 by Jon Parker | Read more »

Hacker: It takes a Nation of Millions »

Audere est facere, ad astra, requiescat in pace: respectively, 'doing stuff needs balls'; 'reach for the stars'; 'let me rest easy'. I reach for Latin because I remember doing an essay on the escapist nature of the Propertian love elegy; one can argue ...

Wed 10 Nov 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Hacker: Five Go Down to South Africa »

After spitting at the avaricious yet prodigious Rooney and the fact that both Old Firm clubs had 100 per cent league records up to the point when they met one another - rendering the Scottish Premier League beyond the joke it already was - I swallow my...

Wed 27 Oct 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Hacker: How about them Yankees? »

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One of my proudest achievements in life is stealing a ball from a small child at Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs baseball team. The unfortunate kid missed the catch when the ball was thrown to him. When it landed on the vacant concrete a row be...

Wed 13 Oct 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

Hacker: You should be wearing your cap... »

The Spurs and England forward Bobby Smith, who died on 18 September aged 77, was a prolific striker in Spurs’ glory days who could well have played in the ’66 World Cup side had he not been so outspoken in the press. To quote his Guardian o...

Wed 29 Sep 2010 by Jonny Brick | Read more »

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