Dec
2012
Articles from 20th Dec 2012
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Red Watch: Liverpool FC repeat the trick of playing well before serving up a poor display in defeat to Aston Villa
Dec 20 2012 | Sport Opinion
IT seems to have been this way for several seasons now. Read
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Blue Watch: Marouane Fellaini’s tussle with Ryan Shawcross was an accident waiting to happen
Dec 20 2012 | Sport Opinion
CURLY-HAIRED midfielder Marouane Fellaini hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons this week as the latest instalment of his running battle with lumbering galoot Ryan Shawcross resulted in him being retrospectively banned by the FA and thus ruling him out of the festive programme. Read
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Mark Lawrenson: Bradley Wiggins was a worthy winner of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award
Dec 20 2012 | Sport Opinion
WHAT you see is what you get with Bradley Wiggins. His achievements this year have been fantastic and he was a worthy winner of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award because he fits the criteria. Not only did he excel in a sporting sense but he is a personality as well. He was very approachable beforehand as well. The only surprise was how tall he is! Read
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Mark Lawrenson: If the players aren’t right, Liverpool FC should not buy them in the January transfer window
Dec 20 2012 | Sport Opinion
UNDERSTANDABLY, many Liverpool fans are hoping for significant business in the January transfer window. Read
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Mark Lawrenson: Marouane Fellaini let everyone down against Stoke City but Everton FC won’t sell him
Dec 20 2012 | Sport Opinion
MAROUANE FELLAINI has let everyone down – but Everton will not want to sell him in January. Read
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X-Factor winner’s Christmas single would be an X-Rated Xmas Number One
Dec 20 2012 | Sport Opinion
ACCORDING to the biographer, Jason Ankeny, Rage Against the Machine “earned acclaim from disenfranchised fans (and not insignificant derision from critics) for their bombastic, fiercely polemical music, which brewed sloganeering leftist rants against corporate America, cultural imperialism, and government oppression into a Molotov cocktail of punk, hip-hop, and thrash.” Read
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Sunday Times journalist David Walsh deserves recognition for exposing Lance Armstrong as a drugs cheat
Dec 20 2012 | Sport Opinion
AFTER an unprecedented year of British sport, naming the most outstanding athlete was not going to come without controversy. Read
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Needle and spice will go from the Ryder Cup with the appointment of Tom Watson as US captain
Dec 20 2012 | Sport Opinion
THERE has been plenty of self-congratulating after the sporting way in which this year’s Ryder Cup was conducted. Read
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Sporting highlights on television
Dec 20 2012 | Sport Opinion
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Phil Kirkbride: Liverpool FC are a great club; just not a great team just now
Dec 20 2012 | Sport Opinion
ARE Liverpool fans living in a dream world? Read
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Audience doing ‘The Poznan’ was cringe-worthy television at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards
Dec 20 2012 | Sport Opinion
I ALSO turned my back when the audience at BBC Sports Personality of the Year started doing ‘The Poznan’. Read
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Sean McGuire: England’s cricketers merit recognition for excellent performances in India
Dec 20 2012 | Sport Opinion
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Sean McGuire: Newcastle United appear to be heading in the wrong direction after handing the big managerial contract to Alan Pardew
Dec 20 2012 | Sport Opinion
IT SEEMS that there is only one thing as perilous for football managers as the dreaded vote of confidence – and that’s the visible show of confidence which comes from a long-term contract. Read
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Sean McGuire: Bradley Wiggins such a worthy winner of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award
Dec 20 2012 | Sport Opinion
BRADLEY WIGGINS was a deserving winner of the Sports Personality of the Year award because he is that rarest of beings – an authentic sporting hero. Read
