Phil Holding

Phil Holding has written 11 posts for Swinging Balls Online

Modern Media, Traditional Sport

By Phil Holding ⋅ November 6, 2011 ⋅ 7 comments

Phil Holding is not happy, and is fed up of watching live sport which is dominated by commentators and pundits instead of the event.

Let Me Entertain You

By Phil Holding ⋅ October 2, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Derek Randall’s statistics certainly do not represent those of a legend, yet his legacy lives on not only in Nottinghamshire but far beyond. He was a natural entertainer, a throwback to a bygone era as Phil Holding discusses …

Rugby World Cup: The Minnows

By Phil Holding ⋅ September 8, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Phil Holding makes a key case for the ‘minnows’ at the IRB Rugby World Cup, painfully remembering Welsh defeats against Samoa and Fiji – Editor: He forgets they got stuffed twice by Samoa!

Sport In Film: Fire In Babylon

By Phil Holding ⋅ July 31, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Phil Holding gives his review of Fire In Babylon, the film that charts the West Indian rise to rule the cricketing world.

Will Cheats Inherit Sport?

By Phil Holding ⋅ July 31, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

As the stakes increase, so moral decay would seem to decrease. Phil Holding looks at what he believes to be an alarming trend of cheating in professional sport.

When David Beat Goliath

By Phil Holding ⋅ July 10, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Colwyn Bay may not be the hotbed of British football, but it does have a story to tell. Two consecutive promotions have brought them into the Football Conference, but Phil Holding tells how they nearly went out of existence in the mid 1990s.

Bruins Claim Stanley Cup Glory

By Phil Holding ⋅ July 10, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Phil Holding looks back at the NHL Playoffs, which climaxed in a thrilling Seven Game series between the Boston Bruins and the Vancouver Canucks.

Justice Call (My Hillsborough Poems)

By Phil Holding ⋅ April 30, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

22 years on and with the fight for justice continuing, Phil Holding picks out 3 beautiful poems from those published in 2009 by Mike Bartram in Justice Calls (my Hillsborough Poems)

Carnival On Ice

By Phil Holding ⋅ April 30, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Phil Holding looks back at the spectacle of the Elite League Ice Hockey Play-Offs, which saw the top 8 teams in the British Isles battle it out in Nottingham for glory and silverware

On the Edge of UK Sport

By Phil Holding ⋅ March 31, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Phil Holding gives an A-Z guide to Ice Hockey in the UK, and wonders why such an exciting and family orientated sport remains a minority sport across the British Isles?