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Terrific golf, pity about unruly crowd
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 04/10/2025
» Now that the dust has settled on the dramatic events at Bethpage last weekend, it is time to reflect on what was a most extraordinary Ryder Cup tournament that will long be remembered for both good and bad reasons.
Coote videos could have bad ramifications for refs
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 16/11/2024
» Making the news this week for all the wrong reasons has been Premier League referee David Coote who was suspended after a video surfaced of him appearing to make disparaging comments about former Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp.
League Cup is not worthless for all
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 29/02/2020
» In its early days the English League Cup was dismissed by a senior sports journalist as a "mammoth irrelevance" and some would still agree with that assessment. For all the efforts of the different sponsors -- and they have changed with regular frequency -- the tournament has always been regarded as a poor relation to the League championship and the FA Cup, which itself has lost much of its former aura.
It's swings and roundabouts with VAR
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 02/11/2019
» The interminable Premier League debate about VAR is in danger of getting as boring as Brexit, although admittedly nothing could be quite as mind-numbing as that. But the VAR controversies are not going away until there is some consistency applied to what will hopefully evolve into a workable system.
Of cabbages and celery, pigs and pies
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 13/10/2018
» Steve Bruce was not a happy bunny when a cabbage was thrown at him by a protesting spectator at Villa Park recently. The Aston Villa manager was even less happy shortly afterwards when he got the sack for his team's recent cabbage-like performances, highlighted by throwing away a 2-0 lead in a 3-3 draw with bottom-placed Preston.
Victims of careless hands, dodgy feet
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 02/06/2018
» If there’s one position any football manager doesn’t want to have a problem with, it’s with the goalkeeper. It doesn’t matter if an outfield player has a poor match as it is unlikely it will directly affect the result. But if the goalkeeper has a dodgy game, it usually means you will be severely punished.