It’s been an age since I last posted on my blog apologies
for that my appendix decided it wanted out of my body so I’ve been off sick
(what a shame) however it’s been a great excuse to indulge on sport over the
summer. The summer definitely served up generous helpings of prestigious
sporting competitions and below I’ve put down my top 10 sporting moments of
this summer.This is in no particular order.
PART 1
1)
The 2014 Brazil World cup was amazing and after
the English premiership ending which was so sad it was fab to have football on
consistently. We all went football crazy, the world cup felt like it was being
played in its spiritual home. The world cup in Brazil was brilliant! According
to whoscored.com Germany where the highest rated team in the world cup with a
7.17 rating and rightly deserved to win the competition after the demolition
job of the host’s Brazil and with a average age of 26.3 years many of the same
squad will be together in the next world cup and think many of them have not
even hit their peak yet now thats scary!
The world cup saw talented players soar in
value and the Columbian James Rodriguez was a prime example completing a
reported 80 million Euros (63.8 million pounds).
This is why real Madrid forked out all that
cash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt07CbhYCw8
2)
The commonwealth Games
The 2014 commonwealth Games where held in
Glasgow and where hailed according to the chief executive of the games Mike
Hooper as the “standout games in the history of the movement”. There was 11
days of action with sports ranging from Athletics to weightlifting and
shooting. For the first time in 28 years England stood at the top of the table,
tall and strong with a grand total of 174 medals, Scotland were stupendous with
a record of 19 Gold models and 53 medals all in total. Young stars emerged from
the game; Claudia Fragapane, Anthony Fowler, Jade Jones, Ross Murdoch,
Siobhan-Marie Connor and Neil Wilson.
3)
Women’s rugby world cup 2014 (France)
England women’s rugby team where not to be
denied as it was four time lucky after losing three successive world cup finals
and all to New Zealand .England won the 2014 final against Canada 21-9. Canada
winger Magali Harvey was named the IRB Women’s player of the year in 2014. She
was superb in the world cup with her pace and formidable goal kicking. The England
Captain said the triumph had come down to hard work and perfect preparation.
4)
When Suarez and Chilleni clashed I thought it
was just a little but the first replay highlighted the secret fear I had as a
Liverpool supported “oh no” I thought, he has done it again. The incident
occurred in the midst of the Italy game against Uruguay, the more the reply was
showed over and over the more the writing was on the wall. The only questions
to be asked where, how long would he be ban for? Would he remain at Liverpool?
And why does he keep doing this?
Suarez was banned for 4 months, he left
Liverpool for Barcelona and to be honest no one but Suarez knows why he keeps
doing this? (Take note Suarez is 20/1 to bite Sergio Ramos of Real Madrid not
bad odds considering el classico is a feisty affair)
5)
Wimbledon 2014
London is well known for this splendid
competition and this summer was another interesting display of shots and drama
and intensity. Surprisingly enough Serena Williams did not win the women’s
title that was won by Petra Kvitova. Sadly there was no Andy Murray delirium he
was knocked out in Straight sets in the quarter finals 6-1 7-6 6-2. The biggest surprise for in the whole
competition was Rafael Nadal being knocked out to the Australian teenager by
the name of Nick Kyrgios. (Don’t forget that name Kyrgios he’s gonna be big in
the future)
