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Every year I watch the BBC Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY).  In fact I have been watching it all the way back to when Gazza won it in 1990.  Watching last night edition was all the more memorable as it was won by someone that really deserved it – Ryan Giggs. Before I continue I would like to just say that I am… Read more

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On Christmas Day this year as I have already mentioned we were playing snooker with my nephews new (small) snooker table.  In the end the winner came down to a fluked black. While trying to play safe after a terrible positional shot on the pink, dad managed to fluke the black into the middle pocket!  See… Read more

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The Olympics are now over for another 4 years, but what a fantastic Olympic Games it has been in terms of Team GB. 19 golds, 13 silver and 15 bronze medals. Our best performance for 100 years. Not only that but we are 4th in the medal table, only behind the huge countries of China, USA and Russia. A fantastic… Read more

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This weekend sees perhaps what many consider to be the spectacle of the formula 1 season with the Monaco Grand Prix. The location is spectacular seeing these magnificent machines flying round the streets on Monte Carlo at tremendous speeds. But I can’t help thinking that the circuit needs changing just a little, to provide an… Read more

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For Christmas my wife decided to get me something a little different. I have been a fan of motor racing, in particularly formula one for some time and I have always wanted to have a go in a single seater racing car. Well my wife bought me a single seater racing experience gift for Christmas and having booked the event back in… Read more

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With the sacking on Steve McClaren after the appalling display against Croatia the other week, which resulted in us failing to qualify for Euro 2008, the search for a manager is now on.  But who are the candidates and who should get the job?  Should he be British or does it not matter? Well there are lots of names that are… Read more

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I have been a football fan since about the age of four and in that time I have seen the national team go from pretty good (Mexico ’86), to really good (Italy ’90), to absolutely disastrous (USA ’94 or not!), to pretty good again (Euro ’96) and then slip back to average again from ’98 to 2006.  But what happened last… Read more