One of the University of Manchester’s newest of competitive teams, the fencing team, have proven to be no pushovers. Entered into a national beginners’ competition, they certainly started off well with a number of fencers finishing in the last 16. To have such a great start was fantastic, but the team has rapidly built on […]

Bookies Paddy Power cause online outrage after advertising bets for Oscar Pistorius’s trial outcome

Andrew Georgeson runs through the hardest football managers

YES- Thomas Turner I’m going to start this with a little game of Andrew Georgeson bingo. Get the full house, and the Mancunion Sport  will pay for you to have a pint with the man himself. Here are the words: ‘Hillsborough’, ‘crush’, ‘unsafe’, ‘hooligan’ and ‘German football hispters’. Each will – as they have been […]

UK Sport withdraw funding for women’s water-polo, jeapordising trio’s Rio hopes

First defeat for Rugby League as York St. John emerge victorious

Amir Khan has been voted fans’ favourite in an official online poll on who Floyd Mayweather’s next opponent will be

Andrew Georgeson looks at the year ahead for sport

Sport Editor Thomas Turner laments the rise of the ‘half-and-half scarf’

MMU Claim the American Football Varsity in a dramatic 12-6 win

Students excel at North of England athletics championships in Sheffield

Manchester defeat Sheffield Hallam 17-7 in a convincing attacking display

Sport Editor Tom Dowler reviews UMSU’s ‘Women in Sport’ event, addressing the challenges facing women’s sport

“I moved to Spain in 2002. I couldn’t speak the language, I didn’t have a job. Barcelona were rubbish”, explains Graham Hunter in a bustling National Football Museum foyer prior to a promotional event for his second book – “Spain: The Inside Story of La Roja’s Historic Treble”. The seeds of Hunter’s journey from Aberdeen […]

Thomas Dowler meets former England rugby captain Phil Vickery MBE. Competition to win Raging Bull polo shirt inside.

Leeds too strong for valiant Manchester in relegation battle at the Armitage Centre

Andrew Georgeson explains how the future of sports journalism is under threat from tyrannical owners and managers

Jennifer Schofield’s impressive lunging swipes victory from Sheffield 1sts

  Welcome to the Mancunion Sport live blog of the 2013 Ice Hockey varsity! Face-off at 7:30!

Live coverage from the UofM-MMU men’s and women’s rugby at Sale stadium