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From playing fields to the battlefields
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 02/05/2020
» The grim report read: "All sport in the country stopped because emergency regulations forbade the assembly of large crowds."
When defences caved in on Boxing Day
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 24/12/2016
» The unnatural absence of any English football until Boxing Day means many of Bangkok's sporting hostelries are today resorting to trivia pub quizzes to placate their soccer-starved customers.
It's still a round of two halves in Troon
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 16/07/2016
» It was the great Gary Player who said the last nine holes at Royal Troon "are the most difficult in the world when the wind is blowing".
The good, the bad and the bubbly
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 22/12/2012
» Someone who probably breathed a huge sigh of relief this week was Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson. Not because of the results, although they were fine, but because, more importantly, his players survived their Christmas party without a whiff of scandal.