Tag: Match Of The Day
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Saturdays, cross of the stations and JV’s trickshots
While it is known only too well that repitition is one of the great foibles in this trade, it would always be contended that if a point still carries credence, it’s worth mentioning again. So we duly find ourselves back in the late 1980s or early 90s. Saturday afternoons in my brother-in-law Kieran’s family home…
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Those crying ‘Woke’ at latest historic Ladies First need a good poke
Just because you may be braced for an incoming negative occurrence doesn’t make the impact thereof any easier to absorb when it does hit. Trust me, as somebody who fell with walking aids and out of wheelchairs more times than I care to painfully remember, you can think you are as ready as you like,…
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There are none so blind as those who do not wish to see
Many years ago, I made the naive mistake of riling up a Glasgow Celtic supporter. Not in a remotely sectarian way. Just regarding the merits – or lack thereof as was the viewpoint here – of Aiden McGeady remaining with the hoops rather than going to a ‘better’ club. You can dress it up any…
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When do reasons simply become excuses?
The most plausible answer to the above pondering is, most likely, when people run out of patience. Which, in top level sport, happens with the rapidity Boris Johnson’s gaffes once provided Russell Howard with material and the rest of us with comic relief. In some cases, though, one can’t help feeling that the impatience is…
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A lot done in nine days – much more to do
As much as many of us ‘lean’ on Sky to keep us abreast of what’s going on in the world of sports, news and politics, there’s no escaping the reality that the organisation is quite thrashy. Witness how they almost glamourised the encitement of the Capitol Riots by Donald Trump or threaded on egg shells…