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High drama -- if a bit on the noisy side
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 07/10/2023
» In recent weeks, Europe and the United States competed in two terrific golf match-play tournaments in Spain and Italy that had the huge galleries and television viewers on the edge of their seats.
Inspired Patty earns plunge into Poppie's Pond
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 10/04/2021
» There cannot be a better way to open your LPGA Tour account than by winning a major, as Thailand's Patty (Paphangkorn) Tavatanakit achieved last weekend.
4 minutes which changed football world
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 28/11/2020
» Just about everything has been said of Diego Maradona in thousands of tributes to the Argentine player who died on Wednesday.
Without football, commentators at a loss for words
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 04/04/2020
» Everyone in football has been affected in some way by the coronavirus and this of course includes commentators who have had no games to report on in the past month.
Well chaps, that's simply not cricket
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 31/03/2018
» For a country which loves sport so much and prides itself on its sense of fair play, the ball-tampering incident has left Australia in a state of shock.
Remembering that dark February day
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 03/02/2018
» It was 60 years ago this Tuesday, but I can still remember Feb 6, 1958 quite vividly. I was 11 years old and returning home from school, sitting upstairs in a double-deck bus. It was about 5pm and we had just negotiated the roundabout outside Reading railway station. As the bus pulled away from the stop I glanced at a placard resting against a wall next to a newspaper vendor.
Not exactly a tunnel of love at Old Trafford
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 16/12/2017
» The fact that last Sunday's Manchester derby ended up in a "dust-up" in the tunnel should not come as a huge surprise given what was at stake. One team comes off the pitch at Old Trafford in an ecstatic mood, while the other is in a state of despair after being humbled at home by their bitter rivals. All you need is someone to light the fuse by saying something untoward and you've got an explosive situation.
Brazilian scars will take a long time to heal
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 12/07/2014
» Well, no one saw that coming, did they? So much for the psychic turtle who backed Brazil. He is probably now turtle soup.
Even the golf balls look pretty in pink
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 14/07/2012
» Back in the days when I foolishly thrashed around in despair on Thai golf courses, I would occasionally resort to using a yellow ball.
Minnows swallowed by big fish
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 07/01/2012
» Although the appeal of the FA Cup may have waned a little over the years, the third round is still one of the most eagerly anticipated weekends in English football.