Tag: Luke Littler
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Cool Hand crucial for Humphries but they both have world in their hands
Something had to give. Two lads of the same name. Both stars of their sport in their own way. Either of them would have been fitting and deserving winners of the Sid Wadell Trophy. One had had the sporting world in spin since the action got underway at the Alexandra Palace on December 15th. The…
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Two Lukes to duke it out!
Generally, if something looks too good to be true, it is as such. If that appraisal seems simplistic to the point of cruelty, look at it another way. In top level professional sport, there’s very seldom room for romantics or fairytales. But there are exceptions to such analysis. Like that of Hewick – the €800…
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The game and the fans are real winners as epic battle enters home straight
When I was 16 years of age, completing the Junior Cert was Mount Everest. And a power cut during the first day of the State Exams which necessitated me to stay in school until 6.30pm catching up added another uninvited layer of trepidation. Other than that, becoming more efficient at driving a powered wheelchair, ditto…
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You can throw the form book in the furnace
When Meath football was at its zenith in the late 1980s and early to mid ’90s, they must have been a nightmare for anybody attempting to preview matches going on what sort of form teams had been in leading up to the fixture in question. Furthermore, oddsmakers must thank their lucky stars in-running betting wasn’t…