March 8, 2017
BBL IWCA members and supporters have divided opinions on whether the Checkatrade Trophy final should be boycotted though most will be attending the game on April 2nd. However we have great respect for those making a principled stand in the name of fair treatment for lo...
March 7, 2017
The Togo international has just saved a player’s life in the Czech Republic, the fourth time he has done so in his eight-year career. Never run away if something bad happens".
Read more at;
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/mar/06/francis-kone-player-could-have-d...
March 6, 2017
With Graça out with the flu, it was down to Mark and Stuart to represent the club in the senior division of today's final round of the Hill End Camp in Cumnor.
This was by far the toughest meeting of the season with several long, steep, waterlogged hills and a course c...
February 19, 2017
On this day in 1954 the Brazilian footballing legend and dictatorship-resistor Sócrates was born. Playing for Corinthians, a historically working class team, Sócrates co-founded the Corinthians Democracy movement opposing the brutal US-backed dictatorship. In 1982 they...
February 12, 2017
Today, before the Cagliari-Juventus match, Gigi Riva was awarded the highest honour for sportspeople (unusually, the president of the Italian Olympic Committee went to Cagliari to deliver it in person – normally people have to collect it at a ceremony in Rome). The med...
February 6, 2017
A few pics from today's Oxfordshire Cross Country League meeting at Harwell.
December 31, 2016
Full respect to the football fans of Hibs and Aberdeen and to campaigners at the Holyrood Boxing Club for the impressive work collecting for local foodbanks through the Edinburgh Helping Hands initiative. As the old year ebbs away, it's inspiring examples of working cl...
December 5, 2016
Mark, Graça and Stuart all managed to get up this morning after an IWCA night out, to take part in the 2nd Round of the Oxfordshire Cross Country League in Adderbury. All gave a fair account of themselves.