Sporting moments 2011: Our writers pick their highlights of the year
From England’s Ashes victory to an unregarded fly-half winning the World Cup for New Zealand, there have been some fantastic moments over the year 1. CRICKET: England wrap up Ashes win It is hard to go beyond January’s Sydney Test when England won the series against Australia – they had already retained the Ashes in [...]
Silverstone’s F1 revival places it among Britain’s sporting cathedrals
Over 300,000 packed into the circuit for last weekend’s British Grand Prix 12 months after the track seemed on its last lags For many years the British Grand Prix has been the embarrassing uncle in the familiar line-up of our “great summer of sport” (© BBC). Shabby old Silverstone was not Lord’s or Wimbledon, or even [...]
