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Cricket at its best with average Aussie side
16 Nov 2011I deal in fact, not opinion, and it is now a confirmed fact that cricket is most interesting when the Australian team performs poorly. The recent dramatic loss to South Africa has everyone talking and once again paying interest to the game. The Australian team were bowled out for their second lowest Test total ever, [...]
Thank goodness for Marco Simoncelli
25 Oct 2011The problem with a lot of so-called sports stars is their lack of true personality. Luckily, there are some exceptions, and Marco Simoncelli was a big one. Marco Simoncelli was an elite motorbike grand prix racer. First appearing as a kid Italian, he was a clear standout talent, and rightfully promoted to the premier class. [...]
European Super League an inevitability
20 Oct 2011The possibility of Europe’s biggest clubs leaving local leagues and playing in a new European league on a weekly basis – which I’m sure they’d label ‘super’ something, such is the lack of imagination in people – is gaining new momentum. It’s also inevitable for the good of the game. We recently saw Liverpool’s outburst [...]
Err, hello, is there really a Rugby World Cup on?
29 Sep 2011Is there a Rugby World Cup on? I walked through Auckland airport late August and swore I saw notice of it. That’ll give me something to look forward to, I thought, it’ll help defeat my depression of having to return to Australia after watching insanely, good looking women dancing salsa in South America for a [...]
A truly great sports fan retires from action
24 May 2011And so the sun sets on another EPL season. Poetic and even legal types overuse this phrase, failing to admit it always comes up again. So excuse me while I state that the sun is setting on me as a sports fan. All sports have their golden eras and I feel mine has passed. A [...]
Do Fulham FC and Michael Jackson mix?
5 Apr 2011Okay, some things we encounter in life are just plain weird – Mike Gibson’s hair style; that Puerto Rican guy who swears he is Jesus – but then there’s even weirder: enter the new Michael Jackson statue at Fulham’s football ground, Craven Cottage. It’s the brain child and tribute to Jackson by wealthy Fulham FC [...]
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