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The stirring tale of Newport's survival
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 23/02/2019
» Only three days after Newport County's spirited FA Cup run ended in the fifth round at the hands of Premier League leaders Manchester City, the Welsh club found themselves at Meadow Lane playing Notts County, bottom of League Two. That's what you call coming down to earth.
Toffees can't seem to escape Z Cars
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 09/02/2019
» When the Everton players walk out onto the Vicarage Road pitch at Watford today, for a moment they could be forgiven thinking they are playing at home. The Toffees will be greeted by the strains of the Z Cars theme tune, which also heralds their appearance at their home ground of Goodison Park.
Thai ace Ariya having fun on top of the world
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 24/11/2018
» The extraordinary success of Ariya Jutanugarn on the LPGA Tour this season sees her finishing as world No.1 as well as picking up just about every golfing award available.
Leeds out to dump 'sleeping giant' tag
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 22/09/2018
» There are signs that a couple of the sleeping giants in the lower realms of the English Football League are finally waking up.
Impressive start for Cardiff custodian
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 25/08/2018
» There are not many goalkeepers who can say they saved a penalty in each of their first two games of the season, let alone in the Premier League, but that is the case of Cardiff City's goalie Neil Etheridge, the first player of Southeast Asian descent to perform in England's top flight.
English public supportive despite loss
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 14/07/2018
» In the end it turned out to be all a bit too much for England. Even Gareth Southgate's waistcoat looked a bit tired as the manager tried to console his players after the heartbreaking final whistle at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.
Football is still a funny old game, indeed
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 30/06/2018
» Well, who would have thought it?
Ariya hangs on for improbable victory
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 09/06/2018
» There is one record that Thai golfer Ariya "May" Jutanugarn will be mightily relieved she did not achieve at last week's US Women's Open at Shoal Creek.
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.