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Should Football Be Continuing?
This conversation between George Watts and Joel Butcher featured on Two’s Kompany, the Sunday 4pm STAR show, and was adapted by Joel. Tune in to hear more like it! Back to Microsoft Teams calls. In the last 12 months, life has made tortoises of all of us. Permanently attached to our homes, being stowed away […]
Diego Maradona – In Memoriam
I’ve always believed it difficult for a young Singaporean to reconcile the excesses and geniuses of Diego Maradona. Now I know that we’ve got four ASEAN Football Federation Suzuki Cups, but we have never made it quite so far continentally (much less globally) as to suffer the honour of a Hand of God. Going just […]
James McClean & The Poppy
Football fans will be more than familiar with the routine come November: poppies on shirts, moments silence, manufactured rage against James McClean. Every year since the Derry native came to Britain in 2011, he has received vitriolic abuse for the crime of refusing to wear a poppy. Anyone familiar with the recent history of Northern […]
22 Years Later, Scotland Wins Again
To grasp the magnitude of Scotland’s momentous qualification for the 2021 European Championships, one has to go back 22 years to our last qualification for a major international tournament. Tony Blair was Prime Minister, Titanic won best picture at the Oscars and I, well, hadn’t been born. We’ve come close before, arguably with better squads, […]
Premier League Team Preview (Part II)
With the start of the 2020/21 English Premier League season just getting started, you may be wondering what to expect in the upcoming season. Read on for a brief overview and analysis of each team, alphabetically from Liverpool to Wolves. For Part 1 featuring Arsenal to Leicester, click here. Liverpool Last season: 1st in PL […]
Premier League Team Preview (Part I)
It feels as though we have barely closed the curtain on the 2019/20 season, but the 2020/21 season is just getting started, and it looks set to be a good one. With club record transfers, three strong newly-promoted sides, and rejuvenated title hopes, who knows what this season will have in store. I have analysed each of the […]
Top 10 Fitness Videos For The Physically Unfit
Like many people, I took lockdown as an opportunity to try and get abs. While I never fulfilled my ab destiny, I did watch hours of fitness videos in an attempt to inspire me into working out, with varying degrees of success. The videos that I have therefore chosen are incredibly biased, but I found […]
Steel Steed: Fife by Bicycle
In recent months, the bicycle has stepped into the limelight as the poster-child for post-coronavirus transport. It’s a safe, inexpensive and socially distanced way to run errands, get some exercise, or explore the world around you. Plus, it has low environmental impact. It’s also fun – there’s nothing quite like the feeling of accomplishment of […]
Sports in St Andrews
Congratulations – you’ve been accepted into St Andrews and will be joining the bubble in September! You’ve learned about the nightlife, applied for your accommodation, and perhaps even had a think about the societies you would like to join. There is something you’re still wondering about, however. Sports! Whether you’re an experienced and skilled competitor, someone […]
Showing Racism The Red Card
We have recently seen the return of top-flight English football, where goals and quality play were expected to grab the headlines. Instead, the majority of the conversation has been of the work of the players and the league off the field. I am, of course, talking about the Premier League’s support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, […]
Social Distancing: Footballers Over Family?
Thursday’s announcement that English Premier League football clubs may resume contact training, with players allowed to breach the two-metre social distancing rule in order to return to more realistic playing scenarios, has further fuelled debate over where the priorities of the government and sports governing bodies truly lie. Whilst lockdown measures around the UK are […]
Grabbing life by the….sled dogs?
Fjallraven Polar 2019 Expedition is a 300km dogsled expedition through the arctic circle in Northern Scandinavia. Taking place over six days in April, the expedition is sponsored by the Fjallraven outdoor clothing company, whose equipment all the participants use. The idea is to show that with the right equipment, anybody can survive difficult conditions, so […]
What to listen to while running
I spent far more time than was probably healthy choosing a subject for my first article as Editor of Star News. The plan was to give you all some deep and intelligent analysis of all the cool and interesting music I’m listening to, but I don’t listen to cool and interesting music, and I’ve never […]
The Great Dane – Olesen Wins the Dunhill Links Championship
By Emil Bremnes Thorbjørn Olesen, who finished as runner-up four years ago, held his nerve to win the 2015 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, completing the tournament two shots ahead of Brooks Koepka and Chris Stroud. The Dane started the day with a three-shot lead, after putting together a magnificent seven-under par round of 65 at […]
Dunhill, Dornan and Dejection
One of the perks of being involved with student media is that you are exposed to an array of events, activities, and people. Sometimes I find myself in situations and have no idea how I have convinced people that I am important enough to be there. Most recently, I have been covering the Alfred Dunhill […]
The Dunhill Series
by Annabel Romanos Before I write my first article in a series concerning my time at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship 2015, I would like to remind you all that as professional (some say) as I may seem: I have no knowledge of professional golf. Period. BUT, this means I get to report from a […]