Gordon McIvor Wilson's Blog – January 2010 Archive (6)

In response to overwhelming public demand [that's quite enough self promotion from you -Ed] selected blogs and comments will be aired on Twitter under my label of @gmciw



You can also go direct to Richard Stoddart's northern mutterings at @betcatalyst - straight from the horse's mouth.



If you choose to follow me anyway, you can also see Guido Fawkes, the leading political anarchist on the web, occasional refs to Caro Wozniacki, the Tasty Danish Pastry, aka The… Continue

Good coverage on one of Sports Punter's favoured sites, at http://mylessoncost70k.blogspot.com/ with stroke by stroke comments, really good stuff. Last time I saw the site there were some good action piccies [that's enough titillation, thank you very much -Ed], must search the archive.



There was a brilliant definitive paper on Tennis Trading, published here by John 2E last summer (find it on The Sports Exchange… Continue

The ads on the site are out of my control but have generally been harmless and vaguely relevant to the content of each page.



Recently, though, there has been a really grotty set of pictures of yellowing molars and the rest, offensive and irrelevant. I complained and received the following reply:



"The image ads we run alongside the text-based ads you're used to seeing are a recent change we've implemented to ensure that we can offer Ning Networks free of charge.… Continue

During this lean and chilly sporting period, have a look at these updates:

from Richard at www.betcatalyst.com

and from Sports Punter at http://www.thesportspunter.blogspot.com/.

Let us know here how you get on. Good luck!

I may have sounded a bit non-PC - or even undemocratic - in my tetchy comments about Big Brother and Darts. Sportsmen, of course, who bet on these activities are only interested in the wager, the 'sport' itself is irrelevant. Greyhound racing may be in the same mould (Ebony, the Internet greyhound, my beloved 4-legged companion for 12 years) where the sport is probably followed by darts and BB afficionados. So, apologies if I have struck the wrong note.



But Simon… Continue

How's the DARTS doing? My old friends BDO (sponsors, I think) have failed to invite me, so I cant be the right sort of darts demographic. But they know I'm the outdoor sort of chap, I was invited to golf days (free umbrellas) and cricket matches (8 hours booze, if you could withstand the attentions of the local bankers).



SNOW seems to have cooled the ardour of even our most persistent bloggers, quietest patch on The Sports Exchange that I can recall. But you can always turn to our… Continue