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Spirit in camp is sky high Jul 31 2012

WHAT a shame that winning a trophy before the season has started has been completely overshadowed by the Sports Day gaining blanket coverage on television, more of which later.Read

Pre-season is modelled on Treasure Hunt Jul 24 2012

REMEMBER a programme called ‘Treasure Hunt’ from days of yore?Read

Monopoly could be the making of Forster Jul 10 2012

A PITY we had to lose Fraser Forster but, to be honest, as he’s gathered more medals on loan than he’ll collect with us in two careers, you can hardly blame him.Read

Boxing Day, big bangs and Don Bosco Jul 03 2012

IN the absence of any football now that England have gone on their traditionally early post-tournament holidays, another instalment in the riveting saga of Boxing Day away fixtures.Read

Do Reds not want our Alan? Jun 05 2012

HAPPY Diamond Jubilee Day! I love the Royals and their constant gifts of public holidays.Read

Mike Ashley is slowly winning us over May 29 2012

IS it really five years since the coup d’etat (with emphasis on the tat judging by the last pair of trainers I bought off him) when Ashley deposed the previous junta?Read

Penalties gamble is no great spectacle May 22 2012

RIGHT, that’s definitely the domestic season finished with, closing with two major injustices.Read

Despite defeat, we’re off to Europe May 15 2012

IN a strange sort of symmetry, the phrase ‘poisoned chalice’ was coined by an exorcising monk (he was knocking around even before Sky Sports, although they’d never admit it because, as we know, all sporting life only began in 1992) who was a patron saint of Europe. Read

City loss dampens high of Chelsea May 08 2012

TURNED out to be a damp squib, didn’t it? After Chelsea I encountered the second of my new experiences of the weekend, the first of which was being asked what flavour I wanted for an alcoholic drink. I mean to say, ‘Fruits of the forest’ belongs in a trifle not a beer glass.Read

Being ignored is more preferable May 01 2012

MY apologies for the two-minute gap in your week last week. I was taking our last family holiday in its current form and I can’t comment on the performances against Stoke and Wigan.Read

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