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Delap Special! Long throws back in business in Premier League
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 13/09/2025
» Ever since the rules of football were introduced the humble throw-in has been the poor relation of the free-kick. The throw-in has always been a convenient uncontroversial device to keep the game moving rather than providing any great advantage to the team awarded the throw.
When dodgy calls lit up Wimbledon
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 05/07/2025
» In addition to tackling the unprecedented hot weather, something else Wimbledon had to get used to this past week is that for the first time there are no line judges. Breaking a very long tradition they have been replaced by electronic devices, a true sign of the times.
Looks like usual suspects as English Premier League kicks off
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 14/08/2021
» After weeks of transfer speculation and deals featuring absurd sums of money and ridiculous rumours, it is something of a relief that the Premier League finally kicks off this weekend.
Some bright spots in a season like no other in Premier League
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 29/05/2021
» The 2020-21 football season in England will certainly go down as one of the strangest in history.
Justice prevails as ludicrous red card for Balbuena overturned
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 01/05/2021
» It was hard to argue with West Ham manager David Moyes when he commented on Sunday: "We have just seen another ridiculous weekend of decisions."
England, WI, Pakistan provide feast of cricket behind closed doors
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 15/08/2020
» One of the more pleasant surprises in the coronavirus-hit English sports scene this summer has been the entertaining nature of England's cricket Tests against the West Indies and now Pakistan, despite there being a total absence of spectators and the players performing in demanding conditions.
Shakers and Trotters in deep trouble
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 24/08/2019
» If you are a football club and begin the season at the bottom of the league with minus 12 points you would like to think things could only improve.
Thais should keep calm and carry on
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 15/06/2019
» I had been thoroughly enjoying the Fifa Women's World Cup in France. That is until the very last game of the opening round of fixtures.