On The Ball
Building Craftsmen Dumfries-sponsored Solway Sharks head coach Martin Grubb is still looking to add to his roster as the 2016/17 NIHL season draws ever nearer. After adding Elite and EPL experience in the shape of defenceman James Hutchinson, arguably the highest profile NIHL north signing of the summer, Grubb is looking for another couple […]
ROSS Wylie is setting his sights high for the next round of the British GT Championship on Sunday (2 Aug). The 23-year-old McLaren GT “Young Driver” returns to the famous Brands Hatch Grand Prix venue aiming to post his first top-six finish of the year. Both Thornhill’s Wylie and Northern Ireland co-driver Andrew Watson are […]
The World Cup continues this week for the boys on On The Ball. We’ll take a look at the group stages as Brazil and Mexico booked their place into the next round with Holland and Chile. England take on Costa Rica as the boys take a look at what’s been a disastrous campaign for Roy […]
The boys are back in town and there’s only one thing to talk this week – the World Cup. World Cup fever has returned and swept across the globe as all eyes are glued on Brazil as the party has started. However the Spanish had their party rained on by Holland, England were beaten by […]
The football season may be over but the talking points just keep on coming. There were plenty of headlines being made in Scotland in the past week as Neil Lennon waved goodbye to Celtic Park – where will he be going and who will be replacing him? At the bottom of the Premiership Hibernian’s embarrassing […]
Well there we go! The football season is wrapping up as most of the country finished up for the summer at the weekend. In Scotland, Celtic won the Scottish Premiership for the third time in a row as Hibernian crashed into the play-offs. Queen of the South’s season came to a bitter end away to […]
Real Madrid’s treble ambitions appear to be over as a late equaliser for struggling Real Valladolid dented their hopes of winning the Spanish title. Defender Sergio Ramos put Madrid ahead with a powerful 25-yard free-kick into the roof of the home net. But without injured duo Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo, who was substituted after […]
Manchester City took a giant stride towards their second Premier League title in three years as a second-half rout of Aston Villa moved them top of the table with one game left to play. City had spent only 11 days at the summit all season, but now lead Liverpool by two points with a far […]
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton has been “close to perfection” in the first four grands prix of the season, according to former world champion Nigel Mansell. Briton Hamilton, who won the world title in 2008, has won three successive races after failing to finish the opening grand prix in Australia. “No driver ever wins a world […]
Queen of the South fought back to lead Falkirk at the midway stage of the Premiership play-off quarter-final. The Bairns took a deserved lead when Blair Alston’s low, driven shot whistled into the net. Bob McHugh headed home Andy Dowie’s cross to level the match after the break. And a fine late strike by McHugh […]
