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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.
Ominous Ryder Cup warning for Europe
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 02/10/2021
» For decades, the Americans have looked far too strong on paper for the Europeans in the Ryder Cup.
Blood, sweat, smiles, tears and cheers in 2019
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 28/12/2019
» It's that time of the year when Nobby drags himself out of his armchair to acknowledge assorted sporting heroes and villains that have graced our sports pages in 2019.
Bielsa, Leeds receive unlikely award
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 28/09/2019
» It's not often that a football manager orders his team to allow their opponents to score a goal, but that's what happened at Elland Road last season when Marcelo Bielsa told his players to let Aston Villa score an equaliser in a crucial Championship game in April.
Great crowds, but cut out the booing
Nobby Piles, Published on 06/10/2018
» Last weekend the Ryder Cup once again created huge drama, this time at Le Golf National in the Paris suburbs. The tournament has become such a massive event of gladiatorial proportions it is hard to imagine that there was a time when the media were calling for it to be scrapped because of lack of interest.