Football

Why England Will Win The World Cup: We’ve got the best WAGs
My good friend McCutcheon has always had his priorities right, as the title of his short stories collection, Sex Drugs And Rock’n’roll Never Goes Out of Style, surely confirms. These...
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June 26, 2006

Why England WILL Win The World Cup…
No sooner had I spent all that time uploading the pictures from the Why England Won’t Win The World Cup e-mail doing the rounds, than someone sent me a link...
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June 24, 2006

Why England Won’t Win The World Cup…
OK, so the USA has just been knocked out by Ghana and while, to use that very American term, it “sucks big time,” there can’t be too many complaints. It...
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June 22, 2006

Face Saved…
“Nor do you need a high IQ to know that if you lose your opening match 3-0 to the Czech Republic and your next game is against Italy, you should...
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June 17, 2006

The Idiot’s Guide To The Intellectual’s World Cup
“There’s a lot of support for England, as you might imagine – Anglophilia being a big factor in intellectual circles.” So explained Bryan Curtis of Slate.com on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer...
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June 15, 2006

The New Palace Guard
Back around 1974, when I was ten years old, Crystal Palace Football Club launched something called the Palace Guard, a proper youth club that went beyond the obligatory page in...
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June 15, 2006

I Have A Headache
Having not watched TV at home for the best part of a year, I have now just watched four football matches in the space of 18 hours. (Make that 11...
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June 10, 2006