Tag Archives: Sky Sports

Sky-high prices force pubs to pull plug on televised football

Posted on August 28, 2025 by insidecroydon

Pub managers, landlords and landladies across Croydon have been forced to do some hurried new sums, as they face bills of £30,000 per year for a licence to show Premier League football on their bars’ televisions using Sky Sports. And … Continue reading →

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Junior School of Hard Knocks returns to Hamsey Green

Posted on June 21, 2012 by insidecroydon

The Sky Sports-inspired School of Hard Knocks scheme is returning to Warlingham rugby club on July 6. The Hamsey Green club is staging a rugby match between SOHK, Warlingham and Riddlesdown schools, kick-off 6.30pm. It is the second year in … Continue reading →

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Historic rugby fixture that plays for ghoulish trophy

Posted on November 21, 2011 by insidecroydon

It is possibly the most ghoulish trophy in world sport, the sort of thing that Damian Hirst might have devised if he’d been asked. The Skull and Goalposts is the trophy contested between Streatham-Croydon and Esher rugby clubs, with the … Continue reading →

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Croydon cricket fans face 40% price hike for T20 match

Posted on May 30, 2011 by insidecroydon

Cricket fans in Croydon are outraged at being charged up to 40 per cent more than standard prices for Surrey’s Twenty20 fixture to be staged at Whitgift School next month. The match between Surrey and Sussex on the evening of … Continue reading →

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