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West London club Brentford confirm they are the bee's knees
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 05/06/2021
» While most of the attention last weekend was understandably on Chelsea's Champions League triumph, there was another much smaller West London club celebrating an equally significant victory.
Bannister one of the last great amateurs
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 10/03/2018
» The death of Sir Roger Bannister, the first man to break the four-minute mile barrier, gave us a reminder of the days when a lot of the top sports men and women were amateurs, having regular occupations, and participated in sport in their spare time.
Will we get to hear Sweet Chariot?
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 04/02/2012
» During the Rugby World Cup last year a Thai colleague asked me why England rugby fans had adopted Swing Low Sweet Chariot - an American spiritual hymn - as their theme song.