Right from the moment we started playing tennis we had this incredible rivalry

Right from the moment we started playing tennis, we had this incredible rivalry. Andy tells a slightly different story: “Jamie is just over a year older than me and that has been absolutely critical for me. According to Judy, Andy told his partner that he was standing too close to the net: “You should stand [...]

Named after an old-time footballer in a children’s comic he can open the scoring for Brian Meehan’s Manton team

Named after an old-time footballer in a children’s comic, he can open the scoring for Brian Meehan’s Manton team.WEDNESDAY: Makderah (5.30). “He’s been like winning the lottery,” he said, “and I’d rather stop racing him than see him break down.” Takeover Target has bought the farm; Janiak is soon to move to flash new premises [...]

Campaigners for Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth say the once-staid high-street chain is now Britain’s most ethical and

Campaigners for Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth say the once-staid high-street chain is now Britain’s most ethical and environmentally conscious retailer. Marks & Spencer has outstripped larger competitors by selling “fair trade” cotton T-shirts, coffee and fruit, putting organic cotton baby clothes on its shelves, phasing out GM animal feed, and selling the most [...]

This is partly due to my inexperience – my claim to fame

This is partly due to my inexperience – my claim to fame was “reffing” the Pacific Under-21 Tournament on the Solomon Islands two years ago, in which I racked up 17 red cards in three games. Later, as the teenager Lionel Messi returned from injury and, in a 20-minute exhibition, crafted a goal for Hernan [...]

It was written in about October 1982 for an Australian political journal but never published

It was written in about October 1982 for an Australian political journal, but never published. But the only thing he says in his letter to Foot about Marxism as an ideology is that he found it “stifling” because it becomes “an excuse to stop searching for the truth”. But he immediately qualified it: “To be [...]

As England plodded into the second stage of the World Cup the words of

As England plodded into the second stage of the World Cup the words of Bill Shankly echoed through 40 years of hurt “Pat Crerand is deceptive,” the great man said “He is slower than he looks.” For Crerand, now read England. Played two, won two. That was the message from the training camp here in [...]

This kind of behaviour merits a sin-bin confinement of 10 minutes a yellow card and £50000 deducted from wages

This kind of behaviour merits a sin-bin confinement of 10 minutes, a yellow card and £50,000 deducted from wages. The fact that he then scored a blatantly offside goal in the same match only made matters worse. He deserves to be given a red card, and a thousand raspberries, the moment that he steps on [...]

He is due to run in the non-scoring B-string 4 x 100m relay tonight and has yet to decide whether to

He is due to run in the non-scoring B-string 4 x 100m relay tonight and has yet to decide whether to take up the challenge of racing Justin Gatlin, joint holder of the 100m world record, in Athens next Monday. Having returned with a fast time himself, however, he hardly got his fingers burnt It [...]

No story there then

No story there, then.The best way to honour the dead – Sarah Payne, Leah Betts, Scott Gillespie, Casey Sheehan – is to make sure that fewer people join them in the grave. That requires us to stand back and take serious, rational decisions on the basis of evidence, not emotion. We all know about the [...]

The new mixes will make little practical difference to the motorist – they will go straight into standard engines and will

The new mixes will make little practical difference to the motorist – they will go straight into standard engines and will not push up pump prices because of lower Treasury duty on biofuels – but the Government fervently hopes they will make a difference to Britain’s carbon emissions.Announcing the obligation, the then Transport Secretary, Alastair [...]

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