Showing posts with label tennis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tennis. Show all posts

Friday, 1 November 2013

Widescreen

Originally published 23 June 2010

If only the BBC broadcast it side on, now TVs are the right shape for it. Alas it still insists in giving us at the same old overhead from one end vista it has since the dawn of TV.

Thursday, 31 October 2013

Wimbledon

Originally published 21 June 2010

Real sport at last! Wimbledon I can cope with, it only lasts for two weeks and it doesn't try to monopolise your attention in the same relentlessly needy way that football does. However, it does have an unfortunate meteorological effect - it causes rain to fall in the same way that rain dances and barbecues do.

Saturday, 18 June 2011

Millie 21

Daily Mirror, August 18th 1990.

I was working to a six week deadline at the Daily Mirror, so this means that this would have been written as that year's Wimbledon was coming to an end.