Phil Champion

Sport watcher. Racegoer, Cheltenham mostly, since 1992. Plymouth Argyle home and away before that.

[Phil Champion @Phil_Champion]

Ah, take me back…

[archivetvmusings @archivetvmus71]

On this day in 2012 the Opening Ceremony of the 30th Olympiad was held in the Olympic Stadium, London.

[Phil Champion @Phil_Champion]

Remember watching this live. A Sunday, late afternoon/early evening, wasn’t it. Test cricket at its best.

[The Cricketer @TheCricketerMag]

#OnThisDay 1998 | An epic duel between Allan Donald and Mike Atherton.

[Phil Champion @Phil_Champion]

Listen to the crowd as Reference Point passes the 2f pole. You don’t hear noise like that at Ascot now.

[Jon Kay ☕️ @jonkay01]

This is just beautiful by @sophieraworth - George taught me so much about living - I will miss him terribly https://t.co/VnERb3oVYP

[Oliver Brown @oliverbrown_tel]

Test cricket's senseless lack of flexibility has spoiled a superb Ashes. Column https://t.co/tdEA9I4LH4

[Phil Champion @Phil_Champion]

Watching the Test highlights, I see what Jim Maxwell meant when he observed on TMS this afternoon that Australia looked like a side three-nil down in this series, rather than leading it 2-1.

[Phil Champion @Phil_Champion]

Not the first time an Ashes Test has clashed with the Open, but I don’t recall the cricket completely overshadowing the golf before. Events at Hoylake barely registered with me until close of play at Old Trafford.

[Marina Hyde @MarinaHyde]

My column on the latest developments in the Post Office scandal - an incredible tale of total corporate psychopathy that I absolutely BEG you to stay very very cross about https://t.co/sy7ubpuLyE

[Phil Champion @Phil_Champion]

Ahead of the Open Championship, Simon Barnes for the Radio Times on the triumph of the LIV rebels.

[Phil Champion @Phil_Champion]

At this stage, no.

[BBC 5 Live Sport @5liveSport]

Is this current Ashes series comparable to that 2005 summer? 🏏 👀

Jonathan Agnew and @GeoffLemonSport disagree...

#BBCCricket #Ashes

[Phil Champion @Phil_Champion]

@musicmanleeds Henman wasn’t a problem - for me at least. It’s the lead commentators who don’t know when to keep quiet. Oh, for the days of Dan Maskell.

[Phil Champion @Phil_Champion]

This piece on BBC TV’s Wimbledon coverage is bang on the money.

[Matt Cartoons @MattCartoonist]

🥵 'They should move the Acropolis to the British museum. It's too hot here'⁠
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My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph

Buy a print of my cartoons at https://t.co/ILFJjPmckx

Original artwork from https://t.co/bVPAkgE34y

[Daniel Storey @danielstorey85]

Plymouth Argyle's promotion to the Championship is an emphatic good news story, a club rebuilt under its owner and never closer to its community. Good things don't come to those who wait; they come to those who do and vow to see it through.

https://t.co/3HoXD2IksX

[Jimmy Rushton @JimmySecUK]

If you genuinely can't understand the difference between what is pictured in these two photos, you should hand back your PhD.

[Phil Champion @Phil_Champion]

Thirty-one wins, 101pts, with Ipswich and Sheff Wed filling the frame. A magnificent achievement.

[Plymouth Argyle FC @Argyle]

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS OF LEAGUE ONE 🏆

#pafc

[Oliver Brown @oliverbrown_tel]

The spectacle of Austin Killips, a post-puberty male, winning the women’s Tour of the Gila is the latest expression of a conspiracy of silence that reaches to the summit of global sport. Column https://t.co/2DABIUYOOY

[Sandown Park @Sandownpark]

Let's just watch this on repeat.

Jonbon 💚💛 #Bet365Finale