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Since his arrival at Tottenham Hotspur, Didier Zokora has often looked like a man who couldn’t pass a leg of lamb without feeling the urge to fling himself over it. Last Sunday…
Even before the news that Alan Shearer is to continue as a pundit on the BBC, this month has not been a good one for sport. Positive drug test has followed positive drug test.…
Playing in the stadium of his club side Marseille in 1998, South Africa’s lanky centre-half Pierre Issa put the ball in his own net twice against France and then muffed his…
I have seen any number of games that were preceded by choreographed ceremonies involving schoolchildren, acrobats, mime and giant balloons, but I never thought Middlesbrough…
”You know that thing they say about David Beckham,” my mate Steve asked on Saturday night, ”about how he runs seven miles during the course of a game?” ”Yes,” I said. ”Clearly…
A new report claims that for years officials at England’s top clubs have been carrying out the systematic abuse of hundreds of thousands of adults. Men and women have been lured…
For television, this is the season of repeats. Nowadays the programmers are too canny to flag anything quite so boldly, however. They prefer to tempt the viewer by sticking words…
”Opinion in England is divided over whether Jimmy Hill is an institution or ought to be put in one. We found out what Jimmy Hill would do if he ran the country and, as a…
David Beckham is handsome, boyishly charming, well muscled and makes no pretension of articulacy, virtues that in more sane societies than our own would have guaranteed him…
”As preparations for the grand prix season get under way, allegations that Bernie Ecclestone treats formula one like his personal Scalextric set are confirmed when he forgets to…
In Newcastle at weekends you can hardly move these days for blokes wearing T-shirts emblazoned with their nicknames -”Cidergut”, ”Sumo”, ”Nobby”. It’s as if they need a constant…
Patrick Kluivert’s move to Newcastle has created a good deal of excited talk, and not just among those with shares in Tyneside nightclubs. Some critics have wondered if the…
Latvia arrive in Portugal as outsiders so rank you can smell them from here. If the odds against them are to be believed they are not so much minnows as krill. They should not be…
Last week Sepp Blatter told my colleague Jim White: “Football is the most powerful force in the world.” And according to the Federation Internationale de Football Assoc-iation…
There is a story about a man who repeatedly hits himself on the head with a mallet. When asked why he does it, he says: “Because it feels so good when I stop.”
As surely as night follows day, or Barrichello follows Schumacher, so the collapse of yet another England cricket tour produces a deluge of suggestions on what must be done to…
In one of the most extraordinary denials in the history of sport, Bayern Munich’s goalkeeper Oliver Kahn recently told the world: ”I am not the pope.”
A woman from Zurich once wrote to George Bernard Shaw: ”You have the greatest brain in the world and I have the most beautiful body, so we ought to produce the most perfect…
The United States decathlete Dave Johnson was expected to win gold in Barcelona in 1992.
