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Three things

By 6000 | 6000 | May 9, 2010

And they’re all about football, so if that sort of thing doesn’t intere… hello? Hello? Hmm. Well, bugger you. I’m going to write it anyway. Firstly, well done to Chelsea, who emphatically finished off the Premiership season with a little 8-0 drubbing of hapless Wigan “Athletic”. Secondly, it’s 25 years since the Bradford Fire – [...]

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World Cup Willie

By 6000 | 6000 | February 11, 2010

Disambiguation: for World Cup Willie (1966 World Cup Mascot) click here. Otherwise… read on. I read today (here, actually) that John Terry, the now disgraced former captain of the England football team, is flying out to Dubai to try and convince his estranged wife, Toni Poole, that their marriage is still worth salvaging. In case [...]

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Snails, Cheese and Wine. And Rain. And Footy.

By 6000 | 6000 | November 8, 2009

It’s been a wet weekend. Very wet. Latest figures from Kirstenbosch suggest that they weren’t really expecting rain at this time of year and forgot to put the rainfall gauge out. But if they had have done, it would have been full. And that’s a lot of water. I would look it up on the SA [...]

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Tom Henning Ovrebo

By 6000 | 6000 | May 7, 2009

Was it just yesterday that I complained that there wasn’t enough drama in the Arsenal v Man U UEFA Champions League semi-final to keep me interested? Well, evidently Tom Henning Øvrebø was reading while (possibly) getting instructions from various betting syndicates across the shadier parts of Europe. And he offered me some lovely Stilton to go [...]

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