Mark's World of Sports

Hey all, I admit I have been focused on Football since the champions league final, not just other sports so to sort it out the next few posts will be on other sports. I have been meaning to do reports on the races but some of the best races have been where the other major events have taken place. So before the Belgian Grand Prix starts the second half of the season I thought I would do a halftime review. The season has been a rerun of last season's battle between Ferarri's Sebastian Vettel and Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton is back as defending champion showing of the Halo The season started off with as usual new regulations and new drivers. One of the major regulation changes was in the respect of safety after deaths and injuries in the head like Jules Bianchi's fatal crash in the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix all the F1 teams now have a mandatory cockpit protection otherwise known as the halo to deflect debris from the head. All go as the race gets underway ...

Will these scenes happen again for City at the end of the Season Well, less than a month after France beat Croatia in the World Cup final, the Premier League is back in action on Friday night with two former champions in Manchester United and the Fairy-tale Champions Leicester City. The league has as usual new people coming to England either players or new managers and three new teams coming in from the Championship. Wolves celebrating winning the championship Fulham lifting the play-off trophy at Wembley The three new teams this season are all former Premier League teams back for the first time in several years who had tough roads to get out of the championship. One of the teams that have fought hard to get back is Wolverhampton Wanderers. When the Wolves went down in 2012 it was seen as how they can recover in their first season in the second tier, well it didn't go well as they were relegated to League One the following season. They bounced back immediately and fo...