Expert bloggers on Yahoo! Eurosport

Expert bloggers on Yahoo! Eurosport

  • Sympathy the Keano way …Read more

    Early Doors

    Early Doors knows little of the world outside the Eurosport office, having been chained to its desk and forced to subsist on a thin gruel of UHT milk and cardboard. It cares little for football itself, preferring to focus on the childish histrionics and self-regarding largesse of those involved in the game. Its primary interests are training-ground bust-ups, Baby Bentleys and deluded chairmen. Like many Premier League players, Early Doors refers to itself only in the third person.

  • A replay is the only way …Read more

    Jim White

    An award-winning columnist with the Daily Telegraph for which he has covered all the world’s major sporting events – Jim White is well known and highly regarded in all parts of the media. A long-serving contributor to Radios 4 and 5, he consistently appears on BBC television and Sky for which he has recently written, and presented, documentaries on Jose Mourinho and Sven-Goran Eriksson.

  • Not hopeful for 2018 bid …Read more

    Danny Murphy

    Danny Murphy is the captain of Fulham and has been capped by England on nine occasions, scoring one goal. He started out as a trainee at Crewe Alexandra before joining Liverpool where he made 170 appearances. He joined Charlton Athletic in 2004 before a spell at Tottenham Hotspur and a second move across London to Craven Cottage where he was a pivotal figure in the Cottagers" seventh placed finish in the Premier League last season.

  • Parker: Don't blame Henry …Read more

    Paul Parker

    Paul Parker enjoyed a distinguished career for club and country. The versatile defender won 19 England caps and played the 1990 World Cup semi-final against West Germany. After spells at Fulham and QPR, Paul joined Manchester United in 1991, where he helped the club claim their first league title for 26 years, and won the Double twice. During six seasons at Old Trafford, he played with legends such as Eric Cantona, Roy Keane and David Beckham.

  • Choose 'em or lose 'em? …Read more

    Fantasy Football Blog

    The Fantasist

    The Fantasist is an expert, no, a guru, in all things Fantasy Football. It will dispense its wisdom throughout the season, unravelling the great mysteries of our time. Conundrums like "Aaron Hughes or Stephen Warnock?' and 'Where does Matty Taylor get all those points from?' During the barren summer months, The Fantasist satisfies its gaming needs by losing a small fortune at its local bingo hall. Consequently, it has a lot riding on Eurosport-Yahoo!'s £5 entry, winner-takes-all office league this season.

  • Shoddy England looted by …Read more

    Cow Corner

    Cow Corner had a sheltered upbringing - it was educated from home and forfeited text books for hardback copies of Wisden Almanack with the only visual stimulation being the John Player League. "Cowers" is the illegitimate sibling of Early Doors and can often be seen on park benches around St John"s Wood trying to sell signed copies of Colin Dredge’s autobiography. Cow has been known to bowl some military medium whilst wielding the long handle at the bottom of the order and answers to one God and one God only, that known as Benaud.

  • Strauss must re-exert his …Read more

    Graham Thorpe

    Graham Thorpe was a mainstay of the Surrey and England middle order for over a decade. The nuggety left-hander scored 6744 Test runs at 44.66 including 16 centuries and he also reached the milestone of 100 Tests. He spent 18 years as a first-class cricketer and was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1998. He was awarded the MBE in 2006 for his services to the game and has now returned to The Oval as the club"s specialist batting coach.

  • England are where they …Read more

    Neil Back

    Neil Back MBE is a World Cup winner who has captained both England and Leicester in the past. The highlight of his career came in 2003 when he helped England to beat Australia in the World Cup final. In total he earned 66 caps for his country. He also helped Leicester to win two Heineken Cups and played on three separate Lions tours. Back is currently head coach of Premiership side Leeds Carnegie after having previously worked as defensive coach at Leicester.

  • Reed: Djokovic the form …Read more

    Simon Reed

    Simon Reed"s career began with BBC Radio in the late sixties when he worked for BBC Radio Sport, BBC World Service and BBC Radio London. From 1973, he was a presenter and reporter for Thames TV before freelancing in the early days of Sky Sports. In 1995, he became Head of Commentators for Eurosport specialising in tennis. He has covered three Olympic Games and has commentated on the last eight Wimbledon Championships.

  • Gray Matter: Will Button …Read more

    Will Gray

    Award-winning sports journalist Will Gray has worked in and around Formula One for more than a decade, providing detailed technical insight as well as live news reports and features for newspapers such as the Daily Telegraph and Daily Star, AFP and Reuters news agencies and a variety of magazines. He has also worked as an F1 expert on TalkSPORT and Irish radio.

  • A tale of two Tigers …Read more

    Bunker Mentality

    From the top of the golfing tree to the grubby roots of the game which bind us all together, Bunker Mentality will be there: it’ll tees up slices of news, and send them fizzing back down the neatly-trimmed fairway of opinion with more punch than a Tiger 2-iron stinger, more spin than a Mickelson wedge – and more bottle than John Daly.

  • Whirlwind will go down a …Read more

    Mark Selby

    Mark Selby is considered the brightest young talent in snooker. He came to prominence in 2007 when he reached the final of the World Championship before losing to John Higgins in the final. In 2008 he picked up his first major title by winning the Masters before going on to win the Welsh Open a month later. He finished the 2007/2008 season ranked fourth in the world. The "Jester from Leicester" is also an accomplished pool player and won the World Eight-ball Championship in 2006.

  • The business of racing …Read more

    Tony Carter

    A former professional chef, Tony Carter switched careers in 1994 and as has tested motocross, GP500s, WSB and BSB machines around the world. Tony started work for Eurosport as a World Superbikes expert for its studio broadcasts before quickly progressing to becoming the channel’s main presenter for both British and World Superbikes across its live coverage. He has an encyclopaedic knowledge of all types of racing and has an unrivalled contacts book in all motorcycle paddocks.