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Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter, heartbroken and drained, somehow muster the strength to clamber from their lightweight double scull adrift on the still, dark pool at Eton Dorney and into the BBC’s interview area. John Inverdale, sparkling, feminine eyes set in his...

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IMAGINE walking into a garage, plucking a spanner from the mechanic’s hand and saying ‘hang on, mate – you do it like THIS, I’ve seen it on the telly’. You wouldn’t dream of it, would you? So why do we – the football fan collective – think we know better than managers...

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It’s become the fashion, whenever we’re confronted by an extraordinary sporting moment or talent, to grant it the title of ‘best ever’. Almost yearly, it seems, we are told a player or team or match is the greatest in history, unparalleled, unique. This summer the...

BORINI: Wheels in motion and a new cog in place

By Joe Milord FEW sides in the world are able to financially boss their way into winning. At the moment, only Man City, Chelsea, and Manchester United have distinguished themselves as clubs who are poised to do so. So, what are the “other” clubs left to do in such...

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THE OLYMPICS, FOOTBALL & THE MEDIA: A TWO WAY STREET?

Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter, heartbroken and drained, somehow muster the strength to clamber from their lightweight double scull adrift on the still, dark pool at Eton Dorney and into the BBC’s interview area. John Inverdale, sparkling, feminine eyes set in his...

Owners – what do they know?

IMAGINE walking into a garage, plucking a spanner from the mechanic’s hand and saying ‘hang on, mate – you do it like THIS, I’ve seen it on the telly’. You wouldn’t dream of it, would you? So why do we – the football fan collective – think we know better than managers...

JOE COLE – A NICE PROBLEM TO HAVE?

Problems. Jay-Z dealt with his by emphasising the positive. He’s a glass half-full kind of guy. Notorious B.I.G. was more downbeat, seeing the kind of causal link between the accumulation of capital and the emergence of personal challenges with which Rosie Redknapp,...

FEDERER AND SPAIN: MAKING HISTORY, SHAPING THE FUTURE

It’s become the fashion, whenever we’re confronted by an extraordinary sporting moment or talent, to grant it the title of ‘best ever’. Almost yearly, it seems, we are told a player or team or match is the greatest in history, unparalleled, unique. This summer the...

BORINI: Wheels in motion and a new cog in place

By Joe Milord FEW sides in the world are able to financially boss their way into winning. At the moment, only Man City, Chelsea, and Manchester United have distinguished themselves as clubs who are poised to do so. So, what are the “other” clubs left to do in such...