Day: July 30, 2024

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GETTING SHIRTY

The shirts that sports players wear today may be made from different material after extensive research for suitability but at the end of the day, a shirt is a shirt.

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IF YOU DO WHAT YOU LOVE  

The thought of marriage can be quite daunting, if not terrifying, for some, even to the point whereby  during one marriage service, the nervous groom was asked “Wilt thou take

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FEAR FACTOR  

Emma Hayes has been in the spotlight recently, unsurprisingly no doubt, as the manager of the  Chelsea Women’s soccer team which has just won the Women’s English Premier League and

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COOL SWIMMINGS  

The 1993 film, ‘Cool Runnings’, may not have won any awards but it did win many people’s hearts as  it told (not entirely accurately) the seemingly bizarre story of the

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A COACH MUST COAX 

Mention the phrase ‘hair-dryer treatment’ and most sports followers will think immediately of one  name – Sir Alex Ferguson, the widely-acclaimed and highly-successful manager of Manchester  United for twenty-seven years.

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IS ANYTHING WORSE THAN LOSING? 

Ryan Cotty was capped forty-eight times for the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team as a centre and  would no doubt have played many more times had he not played

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IT NEVER ALWAYS GETS WORSE 

In addition to the optimist and pessimist giving their views as to whether the figurative glass is half full or half-empty, we may have come across other perspectives, such as

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ANYONE FOR SECONDS? 

There was a tradition at a Hall of Residence of a historic university overseas that at dinners, if a  student wished to have seconds of any one of the three

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FOREVER AND ANON 

So, what do the following have in common? Freddie Mercury, Magnus Magnusson, John Stephen  Akhwari, Winston Churchill, JRR Tolkien, Winnie the Pooh and a hockey umpire?   Freddie Mercury was the

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FROM HERE TO AFFINITY  

Sir Ken Robinson was not by any stretch of the imagination a sportsman. While one of his brothers  did play soccer professionally in England, he himself contracted polio aged four