The Sports Weekend with Nick Westby
The Sports weekend with Nick Westby on December 1st, 2023.
Transcript
00:00 Hello and a warm welcome on a chilly Friday afternoon to the Yorkshire Post Sports Desk's epicentre.
00:05 I'm Sports Editor Nick Westby here with an inside look into the Yorkshire Post's Sports Weekend supplement.
00:10 Looking outside there's not going to be much grassroots action this weekend with all these frozen pitches,
00:15 so let's keep warm inside the copy of the Yorkshire Post's Sports Weekend.
00:19 Football leads the way, we've got big games for Leeds United, Sheffield Wednesday,
00:23 Sheffield United at Burnley in the Premier League and the rest of Yorkshire's EFL clubs
00:28 in what is set to be another busy, action-packed Saturday of football.
00:32 Rugby league-wise we've got a big interview with one of Keithley Cougar's co-owners
00:37 on how they attacked the Championship this year and what went wrong as they reflect on 2023.
00:43 Plus we hear from Rowan Smith at Leeds Rhinos on the mounting injury crisis his team is facing.
00:49 We've got a big interview with golfer Joe Dean from Sheffield who's just graduated to the DP World Tour for next season
00:56 but it's not all it's cracked up to be for a young man who's been playing his trade on the Yorkshire scene for quite a number of years now.
01:03 We hear from Peter Elliott, the 1988 Seoul Olympic silver medallist,
01:08 on Max Bergin of Halifax, one of Yorkshire's great hopes for next summer's Paris Olympic Games.
01:14 Richard Hercot brings us all the news from Snooker's UK Championship at the York Barbican
01:20 as the Triple Crown event reaches the last of stages.
01:23 And we've got all the news from the world of racing on what could be a chilly weekend across the board
01:29 and we've got news from ice hockey, basketball and across the sports.
01:33 Have a fantastic sporting weekend.