Day: July 12, 2024

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OUT OF BOUNCE 

“The wonderful thing about Tiggers,” as any parent who has read AA Milne’s Winnie The Pooh  stories to his child (or watched the Disney films) will know, “is Tiggers are

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PLAYING ADVANTAGE  

Prior to the 1980s, international hockey matches were played on grass but thereafter all  international matches (and subsequently all league matches) were played on the synthetic Astroturf  pitches, where the

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THE TROUBLE WITH REFEREES  

Bill Shankly, the fanatical soccer manager who reinvented Liverpool Football Club in the late 1960s,  famously said that, “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I

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WE ARE FOR THE HIGH JUMP  

“You’re for the high jump, boy!” Those are not words that we want to hear, for sure! If we do hear  them, then we are in trouble, serious trouble; we

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A MARATHON METAPHOR

Many newspapers delight in coming up with very catchy, memorable, clever headlines to persuade  the reader to read the article that follows. One of the greatest examples must surely be

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I WISH YOU ENOUGH  

We go to a restaurant and are told we can eat whatever and as much as we want, so what do we  do? If we are male, we fill our

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WHITE LIES MATTER  

It may be hard for some of us to believe (not because of who said it but because of the content of  what is said) what the American businesswoman Mary

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AVOIDING AMEN CORNER

Mention the phrase “Amen Corner” and there will be few golfers who do not know where it is to be  found. It was brought back into our attention this past

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CONQUERING THE CORRIDOR OF UNCERTAINTY

It goes without saying that a Head can easily tell whether a parent was a good or bad pupil when the  parent was a child at school! All a Head

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TENNYSON ON TENNIS 

Not many people will know that Alfred Lord Tennyson, one of the great Romantic poets, was a  talented sportsman; it is probably true to say that we do not normally