THE PUTTDOWN

  Getting you ready for… FOOTBALL This is the first in a series of blogs to get you ready for upcoming sporting events, first up, the return of the English Premier League. Clearly, without fans in the stadium, that also means no going to the pub before or after the game. Obviously, we can’t be having football fans suffering from alcohol deprivation, so here is a handy game to keep by your side. Depending on how rowdy you’re feeling on that particular day, it can either be a traditional game of BINGO, or a drinking game. Easy peasy. 

2020 gets worse by the week. Recent announcements have seen college football conferences cancelled or suspended until the spring of 2021, leaving players, coaches and fans reeling in the news. One of the biggest questions that have come from these announcements is what will happen to the players. As a student-athlete, you are now just a student, which means you will finally have to start going to class. If you are an athlete reading this, you are in the right place, below we cultivated a list on what to do next, and thrive as a student. Get a pen and paper. This will be key, you will need this in all of your classes, to take notes from the teacher, or "coach" of the class.  The teacher is in charge, but instead of shouting at you when you miss a catch or fumble the ball, they will shout at you when you get an answer wrong or fall asleep in class. Try not to fall asleep in class. Books. What is a book you ask? It's like a playbook for the class you are taking, it contains ...

The first year of VAR being used in the Premier League has been an up and down affair. Controversy has shrouded its use leading to many fans demanding its exclusion from the league.   After a long first season, The Puttdown has been told that VAR has decided that it is time to hang up its video recorder. We were able to get an unprecedented interview with VAR to get their thoughts and feelings on what has been a tumultuous first (and final) year in the league.   The following interview has been edited for clarity.   The Puttdown (TPD): How do you think your year has gone?   VAR: Not great, if I was being truthful.   TPD: Why do you think that?   VAR: Every day has been very stressful. I turn up to work hoping for a pleasant day, but I can barely go a game now without something going wrong. It gives me anxiety attacks; pretty sure I’m losing all my hair, I’ve got wrinkles on my face that weren’t there last year.   TPD: When did you start to notice thing...

After all the talk between the MLB and MLBPA, it looks like we are finally going to get ourselves a baseball season. At this point there looks like there is nothing in the way of us seeing our favourite summer pastime. Or is there? Our sources tell us that discussions have been taking place between the Owners and Rob Manfred, and a new plan has been devised to stop the season going ahead.   Rob Manfred will declare the old school, unwritten playground rule ‘it’s my ball I’m going home’. It’s a rule as old as time, for those who have never seen or used it, this is how it works:  When you are playing a sport with friends, and you own the ball being used, you can decide to randomly take your ball and go home. People will do this for a couple of reasons. 1. If they have to actually go home (the least common use of the rule). 2. If they are losing or 3. If the ball owner hasn’t got their own way with regards to rules or teams, they will take their ball so no one else can play and g...

Fans of several sports around the world are currently looking for new sports to watch. It comes after many sporting organisations, teams, and players have come out in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.  Even NASCAR fans are looking for a new sport to watch after they banned the flag of the confederacy, how dare they not let these people remember their ancestors as they eat hot dogs and get blackout drunk while cars drive round in circles for an hour. I can only empathise with these people. Now that sports are starting to care about the injustices in the world, how are these fans going to escape the crushing reality of their mundane lives.  If they don’t choose another sport, the only other option available will be speaking to their wives and picking out new curtains for the recently painted living room. We spoke to one NASCAR fan who had this to say: "It's an outrage, but I've made my decision. I'm going to watch Quiditch. Yeah that Harry is a good man, and I ...

All the talk at the Charles Schwab Challenge is centred on Bryson DeChambeau’s transformation into the incredible hulk. What used to be a skinny 195-pound stick, has turned in to the 240-pound middle linebacker we see today. After a couple of years on the PGA tour and realising his scientific approach would only take him so far, he decided to hit the gym and now is attempting to break the golf ball in half on every swing he takes.   All any golf analyst can talk about now is how the sport needs to curb the distance golfers are hitting the ball. Richard, 64, on twitter even went on to say: “Its ridiculous, if I could hit the ball 350 yards, I would be on tour as well, something needs to happen so they start hitting the ball 220 yards like me #makegolfgreatagain”.  Here at the Puttdown, we have brainstormed some ideas that the PGA tour and other governing bodies could use to stop golfers from having fun…Sorry; stop them hitting the ball further than Richard down the country club...