The Grand National: Horsemeat and Hypocrisy
We were courted by Channel 4 the other week. They were in town to film their TV advert. Horses bolting through the city streets: Liverpool and the Grand National: city and horse race. Blood brothers. “We’d like to offer you an exclusive”, purred Hannah Walker Senior Publicity Manager, Racing, suggesting we hotfooted it down to [...]
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Talk Sport: The Anfield Wrap
Social media and football often make uncomfortable bedfellows. With cases of players being hounded off their accounts due to fans - how shall we put it - remonstrating strongly with them and the months of January and August often becoming unbearable with mysterious agents claiming to be ITK, inflating gossip around possible signings (quick tip [...]
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Who does the Liver Bird belong to?
Should LFC own the rights to our Liver Bird? Yes, say those charged with ruling on logos (the OHIM - Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market, if you please). No, say campaigners against the decision, who believe that the bird belongs to all of us. In 2008 Liverpool Football Club applied to the intellectual [...]
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The Ugly Game: Making a stand against modern football
When we write about football, we run for cover. But a new fanzine from the team that brought us Halcyon magazine made us realise we weren’t alone. Our jaded love of the beautiful game persists, but its grip is as tenuous as Southampton’s on the Premier League. With jaw-popping infographics spelling out the spiraling costs [...]
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7 Places To Play Golf In Liverpool
Ryder Cup captured your imagination? Here are seven places you can play golf in Liverpool - from crazy golf to some of the best courses in the world.
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SevenStreets Surgery: Cycling
Every week, we’ll bring you a bona fide expert from the city to share their wisdom. This week, it’s a crash-course in all things cycling, from the good people at Parliament Street’s Giant bikes.
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The Liverpool Olympics Start Now
You want our opinion? Those medals were too big. We bet Rio’s are cooler. So we’re in training now - and you can be too. Liverpool can help you towards every UK gold-medal winning sport at London 2012. You’ve just got to know where to look…
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Garden State: Liverpool Festival Gardens open
Robin Brown sampled the simple delights of the reopened Garden Festival site - finding dragonflies, meadowlands and a restored sense of pride.
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Onside. Halcyon Magazine
A new magazine exposing the intelligence - and beauty - of football, men’s lifestyle and boxing? It couldn’t come soon enough, we say. SevenStreets salutes Halcyon Magazine.
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LFC, EFC and Stanley park: No Quarter?
A joint redevelopment of Stanley Park between Liverpool and Everton football clubs? With the support of fans from both clubs it could happen, says Stephen Hurrell.
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Pitch imperfect: Tough times for amateur football in Sefton
Steepling pitch rents could close local football clubs and ‘wipe out amateur sport’ if Sefton Council’s plans go ahead, warns Stephen Hurrell.
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Thai Me Up
Pounded, pummeled and pulled into previously unimaginable positions, David Lloyd braves the strange and wonderful experience of Thai massage, Birkenhead-style.
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Local Derby: skates, skirts and sports at a Hard Day’s Fight
Pow! Bang! Urgh! Kristal Clark enjoys the Carnage at Liverpool Roller Birds’ First At Home Bout
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The Morning Session
Playing cricket at 4.43am may sound like a strange idea, but Sefton Park CC’s Solstice Cup was as pure a celebration of the game, the club and the city as you’re likely to see this summer.
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Blood Brothers
Liverpool photographer Brian Roberts: Muscling in on the latest sport to be embraced in the city
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Review: A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
— With laughs and shocks sitting side-by-side, this take on ...Joe Egg is a troubling but rewarding production of one of theatre's modern classics.
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