Hatters’ uplifting future
Head groundsman Richard Bird spoke to us during the World Cup break about the pitch ups and downs during his thirty years at Kenilworth Road.
in Football - on 23/2/23
Head groundsman Richard Bird spoke to us during the World Cup break about the pitch ups and downs during his thirty years at Kenilworth Road.
in Football - on 23/2/23
A course borne out of the golf boom in the early 80s has a new name and new image after something of a decline under previous ownership. Neville Johnson...
in Golf - on 21/11/22
Crawley Town is well established and, for the eleventh year in a row, assured of EFL status next season, sitting comfortably mid-table in League Two. Neville...
in Football - on 29/5/22
This League Two club is London’s second oldest in the whole of the Football League. Neville Johnson went there to meet Head Groundsman Colin James and...
in Football - on 18/3/22
For Pitchcare’s ton-up issue, Neville Johnson visited a place where centuries are given special recognition. A chat with Head Groundsman Karl McDermott...
in Cricket - on 10/1/22
High scoring partnerships often as not win cricket matches. Experience, fitness and dedication to the cause count for everything. Neville Johnson went...
in Cricket - on 29/11/21
When Brentford FC won the play-off for a place in the Premier League in May it put them back in the top flight of English football where they hadn’t...
in Football - on 17/9/21
One of those much-visited jewels in the crown of historic country properties is Hever Castle in a corner of west Kent. It is best known as the home of...
in Golf - on 4/2/21
Like all sports, racing is facing up to big changes thanks to Coronavirus. One of National Hunt’s best-loved courses is preparing for an extra change....
in People - on 29/8/20
Cricket is our summer game; just not this summer. The frustration is most apparent at county level, where all 18 clubs are without income, yet having to...
in Cricket - on 6/7/20
It is said that St Augustine first founded a school here in 597AD and it became the King’s School in 1541 when it was re-founded by Royal Charter under...
in Cricket - on 27/3/20
“A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted”. That’s what Sir Winston Churchill said about his family home near Westerham in Kent, which has been...
in Public Places - on 22/1/20
This delightful multi sports venue on the south coast was, and still is, part of the Duke of Devonshire’s estate, where in Victorian times the most expensive...
in Football - on 20/7/19
This non-selective boarding and day school for boys and girls aged 3-13, set in thirty-two delightfully green acres on the southern fringe of Kent’s...
in People - on 17/6/19
Cricket has been played ‘in the back garden’ of one of England’s foremost stately homes for nearly 300 years. Neville Johnson paid a mid-winter...
in Cricket - on 18/3/19
Looking after the vast grounds at one of the country’s foremost independent schools for girls is a truly challenging task. Neville Johnson went there...
in Schools & Colleges - on 15/2/19
Exclusive Interview - It’s mid-September. The curtain is about to fall on the 2018 cricket season. One name in the game is about to leave perhaps its...
in Cricket - on 29/10/18
Only one football ground in the whole country has its nets on display at the National Football Museum. Neville Johnson looks at the relatively short history...
in Football - on 11/10/18
We visit a classic course where Surrey’s chalky hills offer views of southern England countryside and the London skyline has been sensitively modernised,...
in Golf - on 21/9/18
A Sussex country estate mentioned in the Domesday Book a thousand years ago, and world famous for its Capability Brown gardens, has an indelible and lasting...
in Cricket - on 3/8/18