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English public supportive despite loss
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 14/07/2018
» In the end it turned out to be all a bit too much for England. Even Gareth Southgate's waistcoat looked a bit tired as the manager tried to console his players after the heartbreaking final whistle at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.
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A year that said farewell to legendary Sir Bobby
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 30/12/2023
» The year began with us mourning the loss of the great Brazilian footballer Pele who passed away in the final days of 2022.
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Wake-up call for sloppy England in India
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 21/10/2023
» England cricket fans have put up with a lot of humiliations over the years but never would they have imagined their team would suffer defeat by Afghanistan in the World Cup.
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Sport battles back to find a sense of normality
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 25/12/2021
» It is the time of the year to acknowledge the sporting heroes of the past 12 months.
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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."
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Clubs face dilemma of reluctant stars
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 09/09/2017
» Last weekend's international break is probably the most inconvenient of the year. The Premier League and most other European leagues had barely got going and yet are forced to an untimely halt. It is almost like the Premier league has two starts to the season -- the false start which began on Aug 11, and this weekend, when the clubs line up with their real teams, at least until the January window.
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The Seagulls have landed in top flight
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 22/04/2017
» Brighton and Hove Albion clinched promotion to the Premier League this week, a considerable achievement for a team which came within a whisker of dropping out of the Football League 20 years ago.
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Sporting heroes and villains of 2016
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 29/12/2016
» It is that time of the year when Nobby hauls himself out of the armchair to honour the sportsmen and sportswomen who have acted above and beyond the call of duty over the past 12 months.
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Testing times for Rodgers and his Bhoys
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 23/07/2016
» Scottish champions Celtic avoided a second banana skin in the Champions League qualifier by overcoming Gibraltar's part-timers, the wonderfully-named Lincoln Red Imps, in comfortable fashion with a 3-0 victory at Celtic Park on Wednesday night. There was to be no repeat of the "Shock of Gibraltar" when the former European champions suffered a humiliating 1-0 first leg defeat by a team which included a customs officer, labourer, policeman and taxi driver.
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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".
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