I can tell you every single sporting event I have been to in my life.
People always react in a mixture of amazement and embarrassment – amazed that I can tell them, but embarrassed for me that I know.
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Reaching my 1000th live match
The New Year brought a significant landmark for me – my 1000th live match.
The highlights of my 2016
It’s that time of year where we all look back on the year just passed, and look ahead to next year.
A Giant step
With JDG Media’s sport content services and Love Rugby League performing at its highest ever level, I’ve been able to leave the running of the day-to-day aspects of the business to the team.
That’s enabled me to pursue my own ambitions to make a difference in sport, and that has led to me landing a role at Manchester Giants basketball club.
Does Catalans rise highlight the need for France’s next step?
It’s the eleventh season of Catalans Dragons in Super League – and French rugby league’s development is at a crossroads.
Frustration with Getty Images’ positive move to solve photo dilemmas
After realising they were fighting a losing battle over bloggers and smaller publishers robbing their images, Getty Images made a bold move to make a library of images available as free to use.
With seemingly infinite pages of content across the web, almost all furnished by an image, it was becoming an increasingly fruitless chase for Getty to protect their images from misuse, and of course the legal costs and challenges that it was presenting.
Building trust in the media – when you’re kept in the dark
Over the course of the Easter weekend, we learnt of a big story in the Elite League.
Milton Keynes Lightning and another club, who I won’t name here, were to join the top level of British Ice Hockey for the 2017/18 season.
We drafted several versions of the story while the sources were verified (which they were), and myself and our digital content editor Michael Black debated the best course of action.
Helping Football Manager set a world record – #FM100 challenge
JDG answered an SOS from the National Football Museum to take part in their #FM100 challenge – a Guinness World Record attempt involving the Football Manager Touch 2016 game.
Featured in the museum’s ‘Pitch to Pixel: The World of Football Gaming’ exhibition, the challenge involves 100 different managers playing the game on the same save, for at least an hour each, over 100 days.
Interview with the chairman of the Pro Table Soccer Association
The driving force behind the new Pro Table Soccer Association has a dream – to get table soccer/Subbuteo on Sky Sports.
Super League sacrificing quality for long term gain
We shouldn’t be too disappointed that neither Saints, Warrington, Wigan or even Leeds aren’t as good as they were five or so years ago.