Welcome to Ian’s World Of Sports!

Congratulations on finding the blog and thank you for choosing to waste your time reading my nonsense! I’m Ian and this is my World of Sports. Catchy name, I know!

What is this blog about?

Sports. All of them. Well, probably not ALL of them. I’ll be honest, as insanely brilliant as it can be to watch, this is probably not going to be the place to learn more about Kabaddi. At least for now. Maybe later.

More than anything, this is just a place for me to voice my thoughts. I do so on twitter but, frankly, the character limit gets a bit annoying at times.

What sports will you be blogging about?

Anything and everything sporting that takes my fancy. That might be a current event happening, an interesting sportsperson, or a past event.

I will also be doing predictions for a bunch of sporting events. I started doing predictions for the 2012 Summer Olympics, after seeing someone else do it first and deciding that I could do a better job, as well as to give me someone to root for in each event. Especially the events that Britain weren’t good at.

Since then, I’ve expanded those predictions from just the Summer Olympics to other multi-sports events, such as the 2018 Commonwealth Games and European Championships, as well as single sports events such as the World Aquatics Championships or the IAAF World Championships. I’ll be continuing that personal tradition and publicizing it for the world to see, and laugh at.

What qualifies you to talk about sport?

Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Whilst I have a deep-rooted love of sport, my sporting prowess is…not great. High school rugby and athletics is about as far as it went, along with the occasional game of squash as an adult and a solitary half marathon when I was too young to know better. So, as a sportsperson, I’m nothing to write home about.

As a sports viewer, however, I like to think I excel. I’ve been fortunate enough to have had the chance to see a bunch of my favourite sports and teams live, ranging from attending two Rugby World Cups, through various football, cricket, ice hockey, American football and other events, right down to watching my dad cycle in his local club time trials when I was younger. Add in sports that the magic of television and the internet have brought to my attention as I’ve got older, and I’d say that I’m positively Olympian as a consumer of sports.

Why did you decide to do this?

A fair question. Mostly it is because I’m 95% sure my wife is sick of hearing me talk about sports she has no interest in. Whilst she isn’t anti-sport in any way or form (she is a recovering ice hockey obsessive who dedicated much of her teen years to the Detroit Red Wings), she doesn’t have quite the same love of random sports I have.

She also claims that I’m a relatively decent writer and says therefore that it makes sense to combine these two loves. However, as I said, I think she just wants other people to be forced to listen to me talking about the minutiae of the rules to the Madison discipline in track cycling instead of her. You lucky things.