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Not so much a talent pool, more a puddle
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 19/05/2012
» My initial reaction to the England squad named by Roy Hodgson this week was a somewhat underwhelming feeling of 'surely he could have come up with something a bit more inspiring than that?'
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Sporting heroes and villains of 2012
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 29/12/2012
» It's the time of the year when Nobby eases himself out of the armchair to acknowledge assorted sports men and women who acted above and beyond the call of duty over the past 12 months - and some that didn't.
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Hodgson makes right calls with squad
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 17/05/2014
» Roy Hodgson is enjoying a rare experience for an England manager. The World Cup squad he announced earlier this week has been met by hardly a whisper of criticism from the notoriously hard-to-please British media.
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Final whistle blows for famous voice
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 23/08/2014
» It was just over a year ago that this column carried an appreciation of James Alexander Gordon after he announced his retirement from reading out the British football results on BBC Radio.
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There’s nothing wrong in winning ugly
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 19/09/2015
» Every Rugby World Cup has a “Group of Death” and sometimes it doesn’t live up to the billing. But this year’s Pool A seems to fit the hype, with England, Australia and Wales battling it out along with the tough Fiji side.
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Gripping rugby weekend on the cards
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 17/10/2015
» The Rugby World Cup seems to have been going on for ever and it still has a couple of weeks to go. Some might feel it is too long for a tournament, but the nature of the game means it is almost impossible to complete it in a shorter time frame.
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Lesser lights dream as season begins
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 05/08/2017
» Fans of Premier League clubs may beg to differ, but the English football season really kicks off this weekend as the 72 teams not in the top flight begin their campaigns. It is the usual mixture of false hopes and realistic fears that may end in tears.
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Defiant England's fifth division finally succumbs
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 21/03/2020
» The fifth tier of English football, the National League, had the dubious honour of being the last professional league in England to play matches for the foreseeable future last weekend.
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Performing in empty arenas will be a true test of the Olympic spirit
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 24/07/2021
» There is little doubt that the Olympics which has finally got under way in Tokyo will be the strangest ever.
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