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Whitehaven Rugby League By Craig Wishart
Whitehaven Rugby League By Craig Wishart Two months ago I sat staring at a blank computer screen wondering how to put together my regular Haven story for The Guide. The season was just not going to plan and with the team sitting precariously in the relegation zone things were looking increasingly gloomy. I was wondering […]
Ex Haven Rugby League Star Wins Award
Image: Liverpool Echo It has been a good season for our local rugby star Kyle Amor. His team St Helens have finished a very respectable fourth place in the league, booked themselves a place in the Super League semi-final and he has lifted the club’s player of the year award thanks to a string of […]
MP Opens New Football Pitch
Jamie Reed, MP for Copeland, officially opened Whitehaven AFC’s new £516,000 third generation (3G) artificial grass pitch (AGP) in Cumbria recently (Saturday 3 September 2016), an event at which the Emirates FA Cup was also on show. The project was made possible thanks to a £448,954 grant from the Premier League & The FA […]
Try Something Different
The success of England’s Women’s team at the Rugby World cup in 2014 has helped inspire over 18,000 women and girls nationwide to lace up their boots to play the game every week. Ali Hipkin gave training a try with Carlisle Ladies Rugby Union team, The Carlisle Cougars, to see what it’s all about. Coming […]
Powerchair Football Comes To Cumbria
Wheelchair users may have once thought that playing a physical sport would have proven difficult. But, today tells a different story; with hundreds of clubs up and down the country now providing regular powerchair football coaching for young disabled people, there is no reason not to get involved. Carlisle United Powerchair Football Club officially kicked […]
