Scheduling: it’s a perennial bugbear amongst all sports fans, and can sometimes lead to the strangest of scenarios. In football, a team may not play each other for months, only to face one another at home and then away within…
In a gritty hard fought victory over the revived Fife Flyers, the Stena Line Belfast Giants moved to within a point of Challenge Cup Group A leaders Braehead Clan, as well as jumping over Sheffield in the league standings, a…
Rivalries. They are a quintessential part of all modern-day sports. From the local derbies between geographically-close football teams to the extended play-off series seen in many North American sports, rivalries drive up both fan and media interest in particular games and the…
It’s Week 3 of my headlong foray into the EIHL Twitterverse, and this week we find that things have calmed down again somewhat. Unspoken truces appear to have been called on the wars of words that raged in the previous…
One slip-up at home saw the Stena Line Belfast Giants drop to third place in the Elite League standings. It all started whilst the Giants were on Continental Cup duty. Sheffield slipped by into first place, one point above Belfast…
