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| Friday 8 July 2011 |
Murray’s defeat was no choking matter
Andy Murray’s Wimbledon loss had more to do with Rafa Nadal’s brilliance than with Murray’s inner demons.
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| Friday 1 July 2011 |
Why it’s all kicking off over Team GB
Olympics bosses want a British soccer team for 2012, but the UK’s football authorities just don't want to play ball.
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| Thursday 23 June 2011 |
It’s possible to go from choker to champ
Rory McIlroy’s bounce-backability confirms that choking is not a congential defect. Andy Murray, take note.
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| Friday 17 June 2011 |
Britain could win gold in synchronised moaning
Why were so many people outraged at missing out on London 2012 tickets for sports they don’t even care about?
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| Friday 10 June 2011 |
Playing for England: glory or chore?
Why more and more Premier League players just aren't that fussed about playing international football.
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| Friday 3 June 2011 |
Blatter-battering: a bad case of sour grapes
English football’s administrators cannot compute that it was their own failings, not FIFA corruption, that lost the 2018 World Cup bid.
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| Friday 20 May 2011 |
The glory of the gloating game
The only thing more enjoyable for a football fan than the failure of rivals is the chance to rub their noses in it.
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| Friday 13 May 2011 |
The PR-free glory of the footballers’ twitterverse
Thanks to Twitter, footballers and fans are finally getting up close and occasionally personal. But how long will it last?
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| Friday 6 May 2011 |
‘More than a club’? No, just a football team
Barcelona’s handbaggery, theatrics and glorious goals in El Clásico showed that football has FA to do with morality.
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| Friday 15 April 2011 |
Kick anti-racism out of football
With overt racism a thing of the past, we should show Herman Ouseley and his racial etiquette police the red card.
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| Friday 8 April 2011 |
Rooney swore? So f***ing what
Those fretting over the footballer’s anglo-saxon turn of phrase have clearly never been to a match before.
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| Thursday 31 March 2011 |
Don’t put depressed sportsmen on a pedastal
A cricketer fessing up to depression is not an ‘heroic achievement’; it’s an indication that he’s ill.
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| Friday 18 March 2011 |
It’s not injuries or refs, the problem’s you, Arsene
As the wheels come off again at Arsenal, it’s time Wenger stopped blaming everything else for his team’s shortcomings.
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| Friday 4 March 2011 |
The beautiful game needs its ugly winners
Footie snobs bleating on about Barcelona’s stylishness should remember there are no points for artistic merit.
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| Thursday 24 February 2011 |
Life’s more fun with the ‘Porkmeister’
Mike Parry’s debut on Five Live’s 606 provoked outrage, but he’s the kind of wind-up merchant the show needs.
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| Friday 18 February 2011 |
Rooney: the greatest goal of all time?
That overhyped goal showed that British football pundits are world beaters at losing all sense of perspective.
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| Friday 11 February 2011 |
Snoods aren’t dangerous, they’re just poncey
Snoods may be a crime against fashion but, whatever FIFA says to the contrary, they are not a health-and-safety issue.
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| Friday 4 February 2011 |
Why the ‘transfer madness’ makes sense
To ask whether injury-prone Fernando Torres is worth £50million is to mistake the world of football for business.
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| Wednesday 26 January 2011 |
A victory for women’s rights? Do me a favour
The sacking of football pundit Andy Gray is a serious blow to the right to express opinions freely in private.
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| Friday 21 January 2011 |
King Kenny has a heavy cross to bear
Dalglish’s return to Liverpool is just the latest in a series of Messianic - and mostly failed - second comings.
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