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A sporting year of cheers, jeers and tears that will be remembered
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 27/12/2025
» It's that time of the year to acknowledge the men and women who have graced the sports pages over the past 12 months. It has been a year of mixed emotions. Here are a few of those who have contributed to the memorable moments of 2025.
Football films can be a mixed bag
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 09/05/2020
» Last week I watched on TV a couple of half-decent films on American sports -- Moneyball (2011) starring Brad Pitt as a baseball manager and Any Given Sunday (1999) with Al Pacino as coach of an underperforming American gridiron team.
Some people are not missing sport at all
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 28/03/2020
» Anyone reading these pages may well be suffering withdrawal symptoms of not being able to see live sport, or even read about it, because there simply isn't any.
Blades look sharp in top flight return
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 26/10/2019
» Few would have predicted that at this stage of the season, after a 12-year absence from the Premier League, newly-promoted Sheffield United would be in the top half, in ninth place, let alone looking down the table to see Manchester United five places below them.
Sad times, bad times and good times
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 22/12/2018
» For Thailand, the year in sport was overshadowed by the tragic death in October of the owner of Leicester City, Vichai Srivadhanaprabha, in a helicopter crash adjacent to the club's King Power Stadium. Four others were also killed, including two assistants, Nusura Suknamai and Kaveporn Punpare and the two pilots.
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.