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When dodgy calls lit up Wimbledon
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 05/07/2025
» In addition to tackling the unprecedented hot weather, something else Wimbledon had to get used to this past week is that for the first time there are no line judges. Breaking a very long tradition they have been replaced by electronic devices, a true sign of the times.
Chatri's Muay Thai work gets recognition
Sports, Published on 10/02/2023
» Thousands of fans flocked to Hua Hin to demonstrate their love for Thailand's greatest pastime on Feb 6, which has now been declared "Muay Thai Day" by the Ministry of Culture.
Valiant Tai vows to fight until the end
Sports, Published on 09/01/2021
» World No.1 Tai Tzu-ying of Taiwan has vowed to "fight until the end'' in the Asian leg in Bangkok, which begins with next week's Yonex Thailand Open.
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."
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.
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.