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Who’s More Miserable-Murray or the Weather?
If awful summer weather was an Olympic sport Britain would be raking in the medals in 2012 as, for about the sixth year running, new records of rainfall having fallen in various months. This year, April and June have been the stars of the show, accumulating impressive amounts of water not seen since accurate recordings began around 1910. Now, I am not a nostalgic ...
Football Ends, Now the Olympics
Now that the football is over we can all turn our attention to the much anticipated 2012 London Olympics, an event that is yet to reach out and grab my imagination, but I know it will, and as always, there will be some event which I didn’t even know existed, where I will screaming at the TV at any sniff of team GB success. If we had a bespectacled geek fighting for ...
Lotteries, Penalty Shoot Outs & Positive Psychology
Whenever there is a penalty shoot-out during a football tournament, I will wager with you that that the pundits "back in the studio" will use the word lottery on several occasions as the cameraman homes in on managers picking the poor bastards charged with (unless they are playing England) potentially letting their nation down in front of a world wide audience (I can ...
Groundhog Day for England….Again!
It would take the most ignorant and biased fan to deny that England's obligatory penalty shoot out defeat was justice served to an Italian side that after the first twenty minutes totally dominated the spirited but pretty much hopeless men in white. All over the radio this morning there were accusations of lack of spirit, not playing for the shirt and all that other ...
Los españoles son Boring (the Spanish are Boring)
I dashed home from celebrating Oakley's first win of the cricket season last night so I could watch the aristocrats of French football take on technically gifted media darlings of Spain, a game that apparently had ITV pundits Roy Keane, Jamie Carragher and Roberto Martinez purring in the studio. Quite why they insist on having a foreigner I can't understand on the ...