April 2009 - Posts

Roy Keane's cup final Diss-appointment

Wednesday, April 22 EVERYONE remembers where they were when they heard Diana, Princess of Wales had been killed in a car crash. Although, admittedly, on nowhere on near the same scale of international importance, I do wonder how many followers of local...
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Football is a funny/fantastic/frustrating game

Monday, April 13 FOOTBALL has a funny habit of kicking you in the teeth when you least expect it. After Hadleigh United scrambled a last-gasp 2-1 victory at bottom-of-the-table Fakenham – more of which later – last Saturday, it was all set up for the...
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Ups and downs are up in the air

Tuesday, April 7 IT WAS my pleasure to spend an hour in the company of Jim and Henry Hammond before Hadleigh United's home game against FC Clacton. I won't go into too much detail here, as the story of these football-loving twins is due to appear in...
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Recollections of a sportswriter

Tuesday, March 31 DID you know that the average number of corners in a game of football is 9.51? Or that, on average, there will be between 68 and 74 throw ins during each match? These fascinating facts were brought to my attention when, for the second...
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