Mark's World of Sports

Brady on the Super Bowl 53 podium It has been a magical 20 years at Foxborough, but today the magic has come to an end with the departure of New England's future Hall of Fame quarterback Tom Brady leaving the team. This particular blog will look back on those 20 years and how the Patriots had come from the bottom of the division regulars, with occasional appearances in the playoffs to 6 time Super Bowl champions in 2 decades. The question now will be who replaces the top spot at New England. Changing from Hall of Fame quarterbacks to relative unknowns are complicated, and there have been cases of it not working out. For example, the Indianapolis Colts who let Peyton Manning go to get Andrew Luck in the 2012 NFL Draft, that worked for a couple of years then injuries and lack of results and his retirement before the start of last season didn't help. Another one is the Dallas Cowboys who never really found the quarterback to replace 3 times Super Bowl-winning quarterback Troy ...

It's been a busy 2 months in the sports world with the Coronavirus pandemic affecting sporting events all over the world. It's now a developing story as various activities have been cancelled throughout Europe and even into America with the NBA suspending the league until further notice on the 11th March.  Even Team McLaren pulled out of this weekends Australian Grand Prix because of 1 of its members being tested positive for the virus, which was then later postponed. Even Real Madrid are in quarantine at the time of this blog because of the disease affecting the basketball team, which affected the Real Madrid football team. Even the MLS in America has suspended the season. This weekend's Australian Grand Prix was called off. The first events to be cancelled were back in January as the Olympic boxing qualifiers which were supposed to have taken place in Wuhan were cancelled. Even another Olympic qualifying event initially hosted in Wuhan was forced to move first to N...

Portugal won the title last summer. After the success of the First nations league last season, England want to go one step further and win after getting knocked out in the semi-finals by Holland and ended up finishing 3rd place. UEFA decided to change the format with the same 4 leagues however Leagues A, B, and C have 16 teams in those leagues and League D have 7 teams. If you're wondering what the difference is, last time the top 2 leagues had 12 teams, League C had 15 teams, and League D had 16 teams. This is different as the teams like Croatia and Germany,  that were relegated after the last edition was spared meanwhile 8 teams promoted via the change in format. The top 4 in Leagues, B, C and D are still up for promotion and the bottom teams in Leagues A, B and C are always up for relegation, and the top team of the League A groups are still going for the Nations League trophy. England has another tough group.  England was drawn in Group A2, and they have 2 teams...