Category: Sports Articles

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HOLD ON

We tend not to associate poetry and sport; indeed, we will not be aware of many sportsmen quoting, let alone writing, poetry. However, in a previous article we noted that

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EVERY MINUTE COUNTS

In the 2023 FA Cup Final, Ilkay Gundogan scored for Manchester City within twelve seconds of the start of the match. Looking back over the thirty years of the EPL,

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SCOFF AT THE FROTH

Picture a glass of beer; that may well be a refreshing sight for some – indeed some might even be moved to go to the fridge at the very mention!

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CHARGE TO THE LIGHTIES BRIGADE

“Should you always do what others tell you to do?” That was a question that Michael Oher asks in his essay in the film ‘Blind Side’ as he reflects on

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HONOUR HONOUR

At one stage or another, we have all enjoyed an informal game of touch rugby or soccer, arranged ad hoc, on the spur of the moment, where teams are randomly

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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.