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By Nathan Lee The first football shirt I ever owned was a fake replica Scotland kit delivered in a plastic box from Leeds market. I wore it with pride. The navy blue top was striking atop a pair of white shorts and matching football socks and it never struck me as an issue donning a national shirt of another home nation. But as I've grown older I've become familiar with a general hatred of the English shared by other British...

You can't blame England fans for feeling a tad despondent following the woeful Euro 2016 show, but it ain't all bad; we’re favourites to win the upcoming World Gravy Wrestling championships. As England crash out of yet another major tournament the English have been left with egg throwing and wicket whacking as the only sports we're borderline competent at. But outside the mainstream ball sports there's an underbelly of fiercely competitive championships which we still have a chance of winning!...

The Times gave all 14 contributing England players zero out of ten following their defeat to Iceland last night in the last 16 of Euro 2016. Joe Hart was judged to have been beaten too easily for the second goal that sent Iceland through to the quarter finals, while his defensive counterparts Kyle Walker, Gary Cahill, Chris Smalling and Danny Rose were adjudged to have been found wanting against a mediocre attack. In midfield, Dele Alli was criticised for finishing...

By Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) Brassy? Bolshy? Bricking it? However the England Euro team are feeling today ahead of their game against Iceland, it looks like Roy Hodgson is putting his strongest team forward to push us through to the quarters. Judging by our less-than-stellar performance against Slovakia last week, it's clear that the right team chemistry can make or break a match, just as the right combo of employees can make or break an office. A recent study into office...

Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter & David de Winter - Sports Editor The London Economic's Sports Editor David de Winter and TLE Sports Columnist Richard de Winter review the group stages of EURO 2016 and look forward to the upcoming knockout matches.

British pubs are set to cash in after all home nations progressed into the final 16 of the Euro 2016 championships. The tournament has been lucrative for watering holes across the country so far, with the England v Wales game seeing afternoon takings in pubs across the UK rise by an average of 163 per cent. Transactions during England’s opening match against Russia were 16 per cent higher than on an average Saturday night in English towns and cities, while the...

Cristiano Ronaldo and his Portuguese colleagues have had a torrid start to Euro 2016 filled with tantrums and strops, but things have just got a whole lot worse. The Real Madrid star has been filmed throwing a reporter's microphone in a lake. The incident happened as the reporter approached him for comment, which provoked another outburst from the star. Fernando Santos' men were enjoying a morning stroll around the lake behind their hotel in Linas-Marcoussis ahead of tonight's game against...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter  @TLE_Sport Four points against the footballing powerhouses of Russia and Wales.  The way England celebrated Daniel Sturridge’s winner against Wales you would have been forgiven for thinking that they’d won the Euros, Eurovision and also successfully voted to remain in the EU in one fell swoop (how many of the England players have remembered to apply for their postal or proxy vote I wonder?).  Ok, it’s not a disaster,...

Whist the world’s eyes might be firmly focuses on Wimbledon and the Euro 2016 tournament this July, it’s important to remember that the month will also host a lot of the UK’s biggest horse racing events. As we reach the end of Royal Ascot season, the attention of the hundreds of thousands of horse racing fans around the world will be on the busy July schedule ahead. There are just a few days left until the start of the month’s...