Tag: Ted Kravitz
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Blow or blessing?
Every sport has its curious idioms. In GAA for example, the quirk by which, even though they may be getting hockeyed all over s pitch, a corner forward will nearly always be the first to be hauled ashore. If a horse runs a bad race or two, either the jockey gets dropped or the animal…
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Hideous Horner should put down the shovel
I’ve been lucky to have legendary former Meath football manager Sean Boylan central to my life for as long as there’s been a pulse here. There’s hardly a superlative in the English language which hasn’t been used in praise of the man. Of the numerous articles, interviews, television programmes and books produced about this mosy…
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Red Bull Need To Listen To B*Witched
There are a few clips of Arsene Wenger during his time as Arsenal manager which perennially come up in Football’s Funniest Moments compilation. One shows the great Frenchman struggling manfully with the zip on his trenchcoat, and the other when, in the aftermath of some controversial incident or other, all he could muster by way…
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Le Clerc turns duel Down Under into a hack canter
This corner will have no bother admitting there was no interest here in F1 as the genuine perception was that victors were decided by the technology in the cockpits of the machines more than anything else. There is no doubt the gadgetry in the lightening quick machines does indeed play a huge role in the…
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Messy race is just fine for Max
In the end, the result goes along expected lines. Though often the eventual outcome only depicts a fraction of the entire story. That was certainly the case with yesterday’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Now read on… The race was full to the gills of incident with a garnish of controversy, the only difference from most…
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Who will cribbing Christian blame this time?
This corner will in no way claim to be an expert in Formula 1, but what will be said is that once one becomes acquainted with a given subject area, knowledge thereof tends to be ingested and retained fairly quickly. Thus, while it would never be claimed that yours truly is an aficionado of the…