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Padraig's sloppy horror show a surreal experience
Wednesday August 19 2009
Welcome to our world, Padraig -- but we don't really want to see you in our weekly version of hell again, particularly when you are contending for a Major championship.
Howzat! bowled over by neil's new spinner
Saturday June 27 2009
Every year an album comes along that seems to fit perfectly with that summer feeling. This year, there are two such records that seem to be the ideal soundtrack to lazy Saturday afternoons spent loafing about in the back garden drinking Ribena.
Johnson must find 'superhero' to inspire Roses
Monday December 01 2008
You can see him now, Martin Johnson poring over the tapes with his coaches, exhuming the autumn campaign from the mausoleum that was Twickenham in November. The great search for clues is on, so that life might begin again in the spring.
Why I'm growing a moustache
Tuesday November 11 2008
When somebody asks you to spend an entire month cultivating a moustache, they had better have a very good reason.
Swann song becomes a lament as England are run out of a million
Sunday November 09 2008
N o sooner had the England cricketers returned broke from Antigua than Sir Ian Botham was predicting they would win next summer's Ashes. Sir Ian is an outstanding individual, who donates much of his time and energy to worthy causes, so instinctively his charitable feelings have been used to protect England.
'New Maradona' ready to memerise Liverpool
Wednesday October 22 2008
Argentine football's search for the 'new Maradona' has gone on longer than English cricket's quest to find the 'next Ian Botham'.
'I'm not ready to be Michael's Nora Batty'
Saturday July 26 2008
She may be married to a man nearing pensionable age, but Catherine Zeta- Jones insists she's not ready to be a glamorous granny just yet. With a 40th birthday on the horizon, the Welsh beauty is not, as she puts it, interested in pulling on the wrinkly tights for a while.
Football's charitable status
Thursday May 15 2008
If stories about players giving generously invite cynicism, the one about Craig Bellamy setting up a €820,000 academy in Sierra Leone was met with disbelief. But, writes Glenn Moore, such responses are often unfair and there is much to applaud in this modern sporting trend
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