I picked up this book after watching BBC’s “Between The Covers”, aside from a spell where I was obsessed with the Rocky franchise I’ve never really followed boxing, but I do like learning about talented individuals that are at the peak of their powers. The Fight details the events of the infamous Rumble in the […]
Category: Sport
Formula 1: Drive to Survive season 3
The past week and a bit has been a big one for Formula 1, mostly because Winter Testing took place, wherein teams get to test their new cars for the first time, but also because we’ve now seen the return of Netflix’s “Formula 1: Drive to Survive” series, which is now in its third season. […]
Romford Pele: It’s Only Ray Parlour
Thus far I’ve only really covered genre fiction, manga and comics on these book-related posts. But I wanted to take a moment to talk about the latest book I’ve read. You see, I quite like autobiographies, they’re almost always light, easy reads and I can normally read them quite quickly, especially if it’s someone talking […]
Remembering Senna
Friday marked 26 years since the passing of Ayrton Senna da Silva at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix held at the Imola Grand Prix circuit, an event that would change Formula 1. Drivers had died before, and have done so since (though those numbers have declined sharply), but never has the death of one […]
Anthoine Hubert 1996-2019
I had a totally different post planned for this weekend, but today isn’t a day for me to be posting about videogames, movies or anime, that can be saved for another weekend. Yesterday, a young race driver, Frenchman Anthoine Hubert ages 22, lost his life in a Formula 2 race at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium. I […]
Niki Lauda 1949-2019
Tuesday May 21st 2019 was an odd day, my eldest daughter turned 15, so it was a cause for celebration and she went to bed that day very happy. However it was also a rather sad day as the world lost a genuine hero, a man who was given The Last Rites and yet came […]