Martin Samuel, twice the SJA Sports Writer of the Year, offers some explanation for the distrust of travelling English football fans We have spent the…
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Category: Sports digest
China focuses on Britain’s sporting heritage
By Philip Barker British sport has been put under the microscope this month by the city that is to host the next Olympic Games.…
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The devil in the detail
The Errata page in the latest edition of Wisden puts up this delightful item:…
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Das Boot Race
By Philip Barker Once upon a time, they played the FA Cup Final in the morning so as not to interfere with the University Boat Race, and if priorities…
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Blade Runner on track for Beijing
From Neil Wilson, the Daily Mail Is the fastest man on no legs one of the world’s great sprinters? Or is he merely an engineering marvel who sh…
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Global warming hits “catastrophic” ski season
By Steven Downes Gianfranco Kasper, president of FIS, the international ski federation, has blamed climate change for what he called a “catastro…
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Someone has balls-by-balls
From Guardian Unlimited It’s a brave news organisation that bites its tongue and publishes negative feedback from its readers, especially when i…
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Blatter’s Fifa has $100m loss on the cards
Fifa, the football world body, is budgeting for a $100 million settlement following its humiliating defeat in a New York courtroom last year, reports …
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So David, what would be your dream assignment?
Less than a week into the cricket World Cup, and Giles Smith, of The Times, has spotted that one sports journalist at least has nabbed the dream job T…
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Swim World Champs get underway
Synchro has got the Fina Swimming World Championships underway in Melbourne.…
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