Jul 16 2008
The Dwaine Chambers saga rumbles on. The UK athletics authorities are putting themselves in the path of a legal steamtrain that could potentially end in disaster. It would seem to me that any athlete who is proved to have been using performance...
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Jul 8 2008
Does anyone else question the validity of athletes switching nationalities? Zola Budd completing the greatest long jump in history in leaping to the front of the British passport queue in time for the Olympic games in Los Angeles. Alan Lamb, Tony Gregg...
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Jul 8 2008
Gordon Brown never ceases to amaze me. His U-turn over a referendum over issues in Europe and his complete lack of appreciation about the difficulties people would face due to the abolition of the 10p tax rate. Now he is telling us all to stop wasting...
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Jun 27 2008
It never ceases to amaze me in this age of professional sport how quick people are to take the moral high ground. The argument over the Grant Elliott run out in the recent one day international is a case in point. By the ’spirit of the...
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Jun 27 2008
Finally the British government have made some sort of response to the attrocities being committed in the name of democracy by Robert Mugabe. Stripping him of his knighthood is a start but what about doing something that will really effect him? So he...
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Jun 20 2008
I suspect that most people have a similar reaction to me when we read about the increase in teen abortions in the United Kingdom - that of complete dismay. This is not caused,as many might suspect, by my being a practicing Christian or by the mechanics...
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Jun 20 2008
Isn’t it about time that the international communities took a stand against Robert Mugabe? The so called ‘election’ that is about to take place in Zimbabwe is a complete farce. The results of punishment beatings and killings have now...
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Jun 13 2008
I find it incredible that football referees put up with the level of abuse that they are subjected to by both players and managers alike. In the rule book it says that the use of ‘foul and abusive language’ can be punishable by a yellow...
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Jun 13 2008
I find it distressing that Wayne Rooney and his fiance Colleen can spend upwards of £5 million on their wedding when there is so much depravation around the world, not to mention the very community in which they grew up. I fully appreciate that it is...
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Jun 4 2008
It is great to see that true sporting icons still exist today to set an example to people around them in sport and in life generally. Lawrence Dalligio bowed out of competative rugby last Saturday with another winning performance with Wasps who lifted...
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