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United have survived hard times before
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 26/04/2014
» There have been nine managerial casualties in the Premier League this season, but none created more shockwaves than the latest — and hopefully the last.
Players struggle to cope in Melbourne cauldron
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 18/01/2014
» It was British novelist Jane Austen who wrote to a friend in 1796: "What dreadful hot weather we have. It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance."
Unending transfer sagas becoming a real yawn
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 07/09/2013
» Thank goodness all that transfer nonsense is over for a few months anyway.
Robson provides glimmer of hope in wild week
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 29/06/2013
» Some years ago, Australian journalist Clive James wrote in the Observer: "A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds."
After 76 years, Fred Perry at last has some company
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 15/09/2012
» Afew years ago the Mail On Sunday newspaper in London listed what it called 10 of the world's greatest rarities. At No.4 on the list was a British tennis player with a can of silver polish.
Nalbandian's red mist livens up court proceedings
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 23/06/2012
» Argentina's David Nalbandian gave a new meaning to foot-fault last week when he physically injured a linesman after deliberately kicking an advertising sign, drawing blood from the unfortunate official's shin.