Tag: Simon Whitlock
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Strength in numbers lets the dragons torch the rest
One of the blessings, or curses depending on what way you’re looking at it, of being liable to watch nearly any sport on the planet is that there’s very seldom a shortage of something to occupy the mind with. Be that as it may, I would always be a great believer in ‘A place for…
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This Wizard got Christmas on the day he needed it
He may not quite be the Beard To Be Feared as much as he once was but the ever popular Simon Whitlock certainly lived up to the Wizard billing as he somehow extricated himself from what for very long periods looked a decidedly gluey situation against Christian Perez of the Philippines this afternoon at the…
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If you dance every dance eventually the Waltz will come around
Among those most stoic and devoted people, Mayo football supporters, you wonder is there one particular final defeat which rankles most among the many days of suffering endured by the green and red. Before any high horses are mounted, the above pondering was not meant in a derisory sense in the slightest. On the contrary,…
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I just smiled and had a bit of my sandwich
When it comes to music, my interest diverge from Elvis Presley to Daniel O’Donnell, The Dubliners to The Prodigy. And everything in between. Everyone loves a one hit wonder, though, don’t they? And so our journey arrives in Milton Keynes in January 2022. The Ladbrokes Masters, hitting the bullseye on another season of darts action.…
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Last dance up for grabs – you can’t turn back the clock
In one of his autobiographies, Tony McCoy told a story about the Aintree National won by Red Marauder. The ground at the Liverpool venue was bottomless, with the result that when The Champ and another rider – possibly Mick Fitzgerald – were unseated from their mounts they realised they were in fact the only ones…
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Danny bags the Jackpot as Lewis’s struggles continue
Stop the presses. The Americans are good to go. Nobody does ‘Big’ like the US. They’re annoyingly obsessed with big. Whoever wins the NBA are World Champions in basketball, even though the 30-team league comprises only teams from the stars and stripes and one from their neighbouring clover leaf. It has been admitted here umpteen…