Category: Sports Articles

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IT’S A FIX!  

Those who love their sport may not exactly be fans of the celebrated novelist Jane Austen while it is  fairly safe to say that Jane Austen would not have concerned

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KILLING IT!  

‘The Killing Fields’ was a powerful film about the Khmer Rouge regime under Pol Pot in Cambodia,  following two journalists who exposed the fact that thousands upon thousands of innocent

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HERE’S TO HEROES!  

Many people will know the Serenity prayer, written by Reinhold Niebuhr, which states: “God, grant  me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the

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IF AT FIRST YOU DO SUCCEED…  

Many of us will be familiar with the litany of anecdotes used to finish the saying, “If at first you don’t  succeed”, ranging from the initial “try, try again” to

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PROS AND CONS  

In 1968 Joni Mitchell had a hit song called ‘Both Sides Now’ where she sang “I’ve looked at clouds  from both sides now, from up and down, and still somehow

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IT IS ALL A BIG CON!  

“Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the  vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of

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I CAN’T GET NO SATISFACTION!  

There is a very old and familiar proverb that says, “a rolling stone gathers no moss”; it has always  been seen to refer to people who are unwilling to settle

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SCHOOL OF SPORT: THE LONG RUN

While the attention of many of us may be drawn to the Olympic Games being held currently, watching competitors running hard and long, especially in the long-distance track races and

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CONTEST NEEDS CONTEXT  

Many a parent has taken massive pride in their child’s sporting achievement at junior school where  the child has thrived and won trophies and awards galore. Their names are up

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IS IT ONLY A GAME?  

 The passing of a soccer player recently has sparked a massive torrent of tributes from all around the  world, not just from other soccer players but also from other sportsmen