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It's fun when they're dodgy between the sticks
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 08/09/2012
» If there is one position any manager doesn't want to have a problem with it's with the goalkeeper. It doesn't really matter if an outfield player is rubbish as there's usually plenty to choose from. But if the keeper is dodgy it means the whole defence gets a bit shaky and eventually the entire team can fall to pieces.
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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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Sporting heroes and villains of 2013
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 28/12/2013
» It's the time of the year when Nobby drags himself out of the armchair to honour the sports' men and women who acted above and beyond the call of duty in the past 12 months.
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Pornanong leads way for Thai women
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 02/08/2014
» World No.1 women’s golfer Stacy Lewis must be sick of the sight of Thailand’s Pornanong Phatlum — in the nicest possible way, of course.
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Leicester fans try to keep on smiling
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 06/12/2014
» One Premier League club which needs no reminding of how quickly fortunes can change in football is Leicester City.
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It helps when footballers use their heads
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 11/04/2015
» When Peter Crouch rose above the Hull defence to head home the winner for Stoke at the Britannia Stadium a couple of weeks ago, he was also heading himself into the record books.
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Watching television can be dangerous
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 25/04/2015
» Every week we witness footballers suffering injuries on the pitch. But over the years, many of the worst injuries have occurred off the playing arena, quite frequently in the home and more often than not, of a bizarre nature.
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Thailand top of the league… well, sort of
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 27/12/2015
» It is that time of the year when Nobby drags himself out of the armchair to honour assorted heroes and villains that have graced the sports pages during 2015.
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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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The rich should show their true colours
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 27/04/2019
» As we approach the end of the football season it is as good a time as any to come up with a gripe, no matter how irrational, about something that you find really irritating in the game.
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