Thursday, 26 March 2020

Other sports no. 3: Don King and the 45 minute answer

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It was the week before the Mike Tyson versus Evander Holyfield rematch at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. I'd been at the first fight when...
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Friday, 20 March 2020

Other sports no. 2: Gazza and the train that never left

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'May you live in interesting times,' goes the old Chinese curse, and as we seem to be... thought I'd break the Old Batsman Four...
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Tuesday, 17 March 2020

Other Sports No. 1: Ronnie and the Normal Shoes

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'May you live in interesting times,' goes the old Chinese curse, and as we seem to be... thought I'd break the Old Batsman Fourt...
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Tuesday, 28 January 2020

Faf du Plessis and the implacable cruelty of cricket

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Faf du Plessis is so comically alpha that he can have AB de Villiers as a friend since schooldays and not be overshadowed. AB might be the g...
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Thursday, 2 January 2020

Xmas leftovers Part II: Ben Foakes at Guildford

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These few paras were taken out of a forthcoming piece as they didn't really fit. I thought Foakes, along with Smith and Labuschagne, was...
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Saturday, 28 December 2019

Xmas leftovers Part I: The Strange Hinterland of Vinceness

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For one reason or another, a piece sometimes falls by the wayside - inbetween commissioning and arrival, things shift and the spike is inser...
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Wednesday, 7 August 2019

First Test notes: England on the Edge (again); rethinking the last day

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One evening during the Test, I saw The Edge , Barney Douglas' film about England's champion side of 2009-14. I've reviewed it fo...
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