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58 years and counting… So what will you remember of the UEFA European (Mens) Football Championship of 2024? A period of great frustration as England stuttered and stumbled their way through the various stages giving way to the hope that always slays most fans’ dreams? They couldn’t could they? No. [ … click here to read more … ]

19)And we’re off! Once the strange Smurf like characters finished their cavorting on the Munich pitch the 2024 Euros began and a poor Scotland were outclassed by hosts Germany. This immediately encouraged revival of Lineker’s comment about football being a simple game played for 90 minutes and the Germans always [ … click here to read more … ]

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The Club Football Circus finally leaves town(for a while, anyway) The first of two final-day title deciders this weekend saw CHELSEA hold off the Manchester City challenge to claim their fifth successive Women’s Super League crown. While the likes of Arsenal, Manchester United and Liverpool all had their moments throughout [ … click here to read more … ]

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The Circus Is In Town On Friday 24 May, The Guardian declared in an exclusive that Erik Ten Hag would be sacked as the Manchester United manager, regardless of the next day’s FA Cup Final result against Manchester City. At that point I started to hum and sing the first [ … click here to read more … ]

MURKY WATERS Who knew that the Boat Race, established 1829, would suddenly become an extreme sport quite as dangerous as off piste skiing? Campaigners like St Fearghal have warned us for years of the idiocy of Britain’s unregulated privatised water industry. Now in the days before the Boat Race, the [ … click here to read more … ]

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IRISH EYES+ Bob Brewer closes this update reporting on a day of glory as English rugby held off the all conquering Irish in a classic Six Nations match. Could English National Hunt trainers do the same in the four day Cheltenham Festival? Well, on the Thursday, they could and did-five [ … click here to read more … ]

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