Category Archives: sport

It’s all kicking off…

By 6000 | 6000 | September 9, 2011

Ah. The perils of supporting England in the Rugby World Cup. Actually, there really aren’t very many of them. It isn’t that important to me: after all, this is just rugby, it’s not football. But there’s always someone that suggests that because I’ve moved to SA, I must support the Boks. Yeah right, because when [...]

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Fourteen nil

By 6000 | 6000 | August 1, 2011

File this one under “best pre-season friendly scorelines ever”: That’s a nice confidence booster ahead of the start of the season on Saturday. Can’t. Stop. Laughing.

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Frozen Divers’ Faces

By 6000 | 6000 | July 30, 2011

From The Telegraph: Sports photographer Ezra Shaw, employed by Getty Images, captured divers’ faces frozen in concentration during the men’s 3m springboard preliminary round at the 14th FINA World Championships in Shanghai, with hilarious results. Concentrated gravity + concentrating minds makes for some oddly disturbing images. That’s Sweden’s Jonathan Joernfalk. More faces only a mother [...]

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When we were top the league

By 6000 | 6000 | June 20, 2011

Yes, Sheffield football is currently suffering, but I was recently reminded by a friend on Facebook that there was a time – however brief – when my beloved Sheffield United were top of the Premier League league – and Man U were bottom: Fans of the Manchester club may want to look away rather than watch that [...]

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Heads up!

By 6000 | 6000 | June 12, 2011

No big announcement, as you may have expected from the title of this post, merely this from the very same weekend a year ago. That’s France’s Jeremy Toulalan and Uruguay’s Alvaro Pereira challenging for a ball which I comprehensively failed to get in shot. This was the second game of the tournament after the Bafana Bafana v [...]

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