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Top 10 Movies
Posted Feb 22nd 2007, 7:25pm by Thomas Stone in Videos and virals

According to the biggest database for movies on the net here are the top 10 sports related movies of all time. Does anyone beg to differ?
TOP 10 Sporting Movies
6.World's Fastest Indian, The (2005)
9.Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
10.Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The (1962)
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Top 10 sporting violence clips
Posted Feb 22nd 2007, 6:08pm by Thomas Stone in isporty

Now we're talking. Grown men standing toe to toe, beating ten tons of shit out of each other with a remorseless disregard for their own safety.
And that's just the dudes from the over 60s chess match. Gasp in awe as Australian and New Zealand Rugby leaguers do their bit for international diplomacy by placing several hundred well timed left hooks to each others jaws. Sigh in disappointment as Aidy Boothroyd gets banished to the stands before the opposition team can beat him to a pulp. And then there's the American ice hockey match where the violence isn't on the pitch or in the stands, it's bloody both! See what happens when the boozed up ice hockey fans clash with the opposing team. Carnage, absolute bleedin' carnage.
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Some right scraps there! Wouldn't like to of been involved in any of them!
ooh,ow,ooh,ow!
Lob Wedge War
Posted Feb 22nd 2007, 5:09pm by Reiss Malone in Tim Southwell's blog

Tennis - Blimey, first they want equal voting rights, then they started setting light to our vests and now it's equal pay for women tennis players at Wimbledon. Which is strange because I always thought they got the same. But apparently Wimbledon's the last Grand Slam not to award both sexes the same prize money. No surprise that the All England Club are a little slow on the uptake of changes in modern society but there you go. It's not right though, is it - equal pay for women tennis players? They only play three sets max and, as I recall, most of the matches end 6-0 6-0 to Billie Jean King. Plus, all that extra time not playing five sets means they can all enter the doubles so they're probably making even more cash than the fellas! It's an outrage. Mind you I haven't paid much notice since Buster Mottram got banned for attempting to kill that line judge with his second serve. Now there was a forward thinking young man.
isporty wants to know what tragic discrimination you've been faced with in your sport. Do they take one look at you at the gate and say: "Dustbin day's Friday mate." Or "Clear off, we don't like your kind round these parts." Let us know and we'll get it sorted no dramas.
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I think it is only fair the women should get paid the same as the men. However they should have to play the same amount of sets. Fair enough compromise I feel
Told you!
Posted Feb 22nd 2007, 11:28am by Tim Southwell in Tim Southwell's blog

Stricken England boss faces devastating climbdown
Football - David Beckham was close to an England recall last night as Steve McClaren prepared to make a huge U-turn and admit he’s been a total fool. The England manager watched tapes of Beckham's man of the match display for Real Madrid on Tuesday in the Champions League and admitted he was close to welcoming the former skipper back into the fold. McClaren said: "It gives me a problem. On the one hand I’m going to look like a spineless muppet who doesn’t know his own mind, and on the other hand I wouldn’t mind winning a match at some stage. It's a thundering nuisance, I don’t mind telling you."
isporty would like to know if you've ever had to make a difficult selection decision involving someone you clearly don't like but is obviously the best person in their position? Or, have you been left out of things at your sporting club because the berk in charge couldn't see how great you really are? Email us now before you forget...
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Surely this would send out wrong message for english football. I think in these last few games England have missed alot of key players including Hargreaves, Lennon, J Cole, Terry etc. Get these back and i think england will regain their form.
If he brings Beckham back he will surely have to look at others like Campbell, James etc. Tough decision.
McClaren is really under pressure after only 8-10 games i think! The temp is rising!
Terry Venables Interview
Posted Feb 22nd 2007, 10:59am by Evan King in isporty TV
Terry Venables interviewed at the iSporty launch party.
Terry Venables interviewed at the iSporty launch party.
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Good interview very interesting. Terry said his highlights and lows came at Euro 96. Take a look at my blog for the England v Holland match. Great days!
The man's a ledge! That is to say, he is a legend. Put him in the hot seat now and we're a shoe in for national glory!
Yeah give Venables a chance he nearly qualified australia for a world cup and if we wud of got there prob wud of won it wit him in charge!
Yeah give Venables a chance he nearly qualified australia for a world cup and if we wud of got there prob wud of won it wit him in charge!
They should swap the relationship round, Terry as gaffer and McClaren as ass gaffer.
i dont know about that. I am sure Terry wouldn't want to do the job again full time. He has had his go and was successful during euro 96 sure he doesnt want to tarnish that reputation
Bels Boys Interview
Posted Feb 22nd 2007, 10:58am by Evan King in isporty TV
Bels Boys talk to iSporty
Bels Boys talk to iSporty
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Bellamy & Riise — Marriage on cards?
Posted Feb 22nd 2007, 9:29am by Tim Southwell in Tim Southwell's blog

Football Astonishing revelations from Anfield
You couldn't bleedin' make it up could you? Just when you thought Craig Bellamy was going to be consigned to the great footballing graveyard in the sky (or Portsmouth or somewhere) he goes and turns in a blinder, scoring Liverpool's first when the Barca keeper got scared of his header and ran away into his own net, and then... wait for it, teeing up John Arne Riise for the second! Bellamy, dubbed the 'Nutter with the Putter' after attacking Riise with a golf club last week, said: "I hope this will put an end to all the nonsense. The fact is that John Arne Riise and I are very much in love. That whole thing with the golf club was no more than anyone would have done if they'd caught the man they loved winking at Peter Crouch. I'm sorry, that's just me. John knows who I am and what I'm capable of, I just hope the gaffer sees it the same way." Riise, sporting a magnificent diamond ring, couldn't conceal his glee: "It's true, we're engaged. It was very romantic. We were playing golf and Craig asked me if I had any spare Titleist ProV1s as he had just shanked his last one into the trees, so I looked in my golf bag and there it was, an engagement ring. Well, you hear about things like this in Mills & Boon books but when it happens to you, well.." Riise reckoned it was written in the stars that both he and Bellamy would get engaged and prove to be Euro heroes all in the same week. He said: "It was destiny for both of us, I think. Craig and myself have had a difficult build-up but we’ve put it behind us. I hope the press will now respect our privacy and leave us to enjoy our honeymoon."
isporty would like to know if you've ever accidentally fallen in love with a team mate/running partner etc after they attacked you with a sporting item unrelated to your actual specialist sport? Did it affect your game or spur you on to greater things?
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Just goes to show doesn't it! You couldn't of wrote the script. Bellamy beat the lions of barca good luck to you young man, that will hopefully get the press of his back now.
Bellamy will always get the press on his back too much attention in the past I am afraid.



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David Maher Roberts
Where's Escape to Victory? You can't have a top 10 of sports movies without Escape to Victory. C'mon...
Terry Griffiths
obviously you can david.
William Davidson
Rocky,Rocky! That film should be higher than 8th!
Matt Horler
When we were Kings is clearly a much better boxing movie than the cliche ridden Million Dollar Baby! Are Goal and Wimbledon just bubbling under the top 10?
Tim Southwell
Where's the Arsenal Stadium Mystery? And what about the new Rocky film, it's a corker!!!!!!
Dominic van Bunnens
Where's Debbie Does Dallas? There was loads of sport in that I think.