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Ex football/tennis corr Daily Mail, tennis corr The Times. Books with Andy Murray, David Beckham, Wycombe Wdrs & All My Own Words - my story.

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4 years
This is not the paper I spent 16 years serving. It has completely lost the plot.
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@TeamGB @campbellclaret When they get invited to No.10 as they surely will, I hope they do exactly what the England football team did, and refuse to attend. It would be the greatest snub to a supposed Prime Minister who has lied through a pandemic and caused multiple deaths.
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We were all in the Rotterdam press box 30+ years ago to witness England being cheated by the Dutch who also broke Gaza’s cheekbone at Wembley in the spring. Karma is a real bitch. RIP Graham Taylor. A ⁦ @AVFCOfficial ⁩ striker won it as well. ⚽️😍
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If it's possible to admire @BellinghamJude even more 😇⚽️
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Jude Bellingham 👌
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This is powerful. The public know it. Mercer knows it. Sunak is toast.
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George Monbiot absolutely shredding this govt and their sadistic, pure distraction, Rwanda policy.
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4 years
Wembley is empty apart from a Scotsman face-timing his grannie. One of the more improbable pictures taken at the old place. ⁦ @JackGrimmer
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3 years
@BorisJohnson @EmmaRaducanu Ah, a passing bandwagon.
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7 years
Bumped into a still-glum @RafaelNadal in the lobby of his Melbourne hotel this morning. He was heading for his MRI. Typically he asked me how I was. There is nothing about the man you cannot love #RafaNadal
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4 years
@GaryLineker At the very most Gary. A word in the ear would have been sufficient. But I’m old school.
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4 years
Watching this Government ‘commercial.’ Didn’t Angela Merkel explain this on her own, succinctly a month ago? We’re so far behind it’s scary however BoJo tries to make it look as if we’re seeing the light.
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3 years
@campbellclaret Just listened to Wake Up To Money. Discussed lack of HGV drivers and food on supermarket shelves, lack of drinks at McDonalds and didn’t mention the B word once. 🙄🙄
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4 years
The Premier League condemning a group of clubs for breaking away is ever so itsy-bitsy hypocritical. Those of us there in 1991 remember how the top clubs trod the rest of the FL into the dust without a moment’s hesitation.
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@JournalistJill Disgraceful comment. Should have disqualified him from ever being appointed.
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5 years
@piersmorgan But you’re not informing people of what is happening. That’s the job of the Chief Medical Officer and the Chief Scientific Advisor who was on @BBCr4today this morning giving a cogent, articulate reasoned account of the present situation. Not shouting at people on Twitter.
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1 year
Anyone else find these on-court interviews at Wimbledon hugely cringeworthy?
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7 years
@Twitter @skellynj @BarackObama And that is just going to get right under the orange skin of the lunatic at the helm...
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4 years
@GaryLineker Are you sure you weren’t a Sun headline writer in a former life?
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1 year
@GaryLineker @VirgilvDijk Ridiculous to attempt a tackle given his body position Gary. Took the player out. You’d have been demanding a free kick had it happened to you!
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5 years
@piersmorgan No doubt having his back rubbed as he spoke. Has anyone in the country fallen further into irrelevance in such a short space of time?
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A year ago today, about 7.45am, I was cut down by a stroke. It’s been a tumultuous time. Thankful for family, who have been amazing, friends and simple well-wishers. I’m still here fighting with God’s grace. Plenty still to do which I’ll give my best shot. Very reflective day
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6 years
Had a few fascinating press conference jousts with Andy Murray. My favourite was at RG a few years back. He survived a five set 1st round. I said: 'Can't you stop yourself playing so many drop shots?' He replied: 'Can't you stop yourself asking stupid questions.' @andy_murray
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That day in Crandon Park I was first introduced to @RafaelNadal we kicked a tennis ball around on a first floor balcony. It was 2005. He was two months from a 1st grand slam title. Now he has 19. Yet I still see this young kid, humble, kind, content, thrilled. What a champion.
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I know @JeffStelling was a very hard act to follow but bugger me @SoccerSaturday is absolutely unwatchable these days. Host who's all over the place, gibbering reporters [with the odd exception]. Mike Dean totally disinterested.
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4 years
How is Chris Mason not the BBC’s political editor? He’s absolutely brilliant, most especially when he has to ad-lib with authority. Reminds me of the finest football and tennis writers on deadline with only a phone and notebook for company. We spoke the story down a phone line.
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@campbellclaret @UKLabour @LibDems @DominicRaab The anti-Redwood sentiment is growing in my constituency Alistair and quite properly. If the Greens stood aside, it would happen for the LibDems, it is that close....
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1 year
I just read an article by Sarah Vine in @MailOnline about Third World Britain that fails to mention grubby, lying, corrupt politicians, tax-dodging newspaper owners, ridiculously patronising columnists and of course Brexit as root causes. So far wide of the mark its laughable.
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@darrenrichman Lovely man Peter. He and Bryon Butler, his BBC colleague were the very essence of quiet, dignified authority and beautiful commentators. God rest their souls. Now we have Robbie Savage filling the airwaves. Heaven help us....
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Honestly, is there a better sight in all of sport than this? @RafaelNadal 💪💪✍️✍️🎾🎾
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Nadal blowing Madrid minds 🤯 @RafaelNadal #MMOPEN
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@GaryLineker It often seems there are those who won't be content until he's hounded off the face of the earth. Disgusting.
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6 years
@CBSNews @owen_g My God. This man remains so presidential. What the hell has the USA done to replace a great man with a total imposter? History will judge this abomination.
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@SecretFire79 On Sunday, a priest celebrated Mass at our church for the first time. I thanked him afterwards for his wonderful homily. He asked me about my condition and I told him I’d had a stroke. He placed his hand on my shoulder and said: ‘Strength to Strength.’ I felt God’s presence. 🙏💪
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@BorisJohnson He didn’t rescue a great paper. It was great before he got his hands on it and turned it into a right-wing rag that gave you a column.
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@GaryLineker You’re utterly right Gary. If there is the remotest chance the season can be completed with sensible, acceptable conditions, embraced by all and scientifically manageable, it should be attempted. However long it takes. Next season means next. Not now.
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@MarinaHyde Your point about the grand slams so well made Marina. Behind the mask of camaraderie is a terrible shade of oneupmanship and nastiness that would melt an iceberg. The new FFT president just made a press statement about Osaka and refused to take questions. Quelle hypocrite!
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@SkyJacquie @reallorraine @ameliaabeltrao I remember my wife and I sitting down in the living room in 2007 to tell our kids who were 14 and 9 at the time that she had breast cancer. The hardest moment of my life. So thankful we’re all still here 13 years later. And so will you be Jacquie ❤️❤️💪💪
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@ICC I’ll wager that @piersmorgan doesn’t wade in one this one.
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4 years
@jelenadjokovic Why does tennis continue to tolerate this imposter?
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4 years
It’s arrived. I’m dead chuffed. What a season it was. Hope I’ve captured it perfectly ⁦ @wwfcofficial ⁩ Thanks #pitchpublishing
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7 years
@DuncanCastles I’m afraid that is total nonsense Duncan. A clear case of serious foul play. Red card
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9 years
The gesture of @andy_murray at the end, rushing to shake every Belgian hand - that's the genuine Andy. Forget the rest of the rubbish.
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1 year
I’ll be out of Twitter commission for a while . I had a stroke last week and can’t use my left hand to write . I get tired very quickly. Love to all.
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4 years
@piersmorgan @BrandonLewis @GMB Because we have the [second] worst Government in the world. The worst is being replaced tomorrow.
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@piersmorgan Why on earth would you have wanted to be his friend in the first place? A proven crook, cheat and liar.
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An astoundingly beautiful service in Wimbledon today for my old pal and travelling companion Mike Dickson. His children spoke so movingly. The tone was perfect. Not a single pew empty. He’d have been so very proud. Your round in heaven Dicko. 🙏🎾🍷
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4 years
How can I not be proud as punch of this? Was asked to referee the final practice match for @wwfcofficial then told by Gareth Ainsworth to join the boys [and Aly] for a team picture to celebrate the @EFL play-offs. It has been an incredible, unforgettable season.
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Look, no stick 😊💪😳
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6 years
I can’t believe that BBC News just used the phrase ‘crashed out’ to describe Andy Murray’s exit from @AustralianOpen What is it with these people??
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1 year
Welcome to the world, Amelie June Brady, my first grandchild, five days young today. What a blessing in an unforgettable year 🥰🥰
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6 years
A word for this Iranian referee, Faghani. Top class. #FRAARG
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3 years
@campbellclaret In all seriousness Alistair, why aren’t there concerted calls for this idiot to stand down? He’s playing with the country’s health and no-one in a position to call for his resignation seems prepared to step up and say so.
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8 years
Stood in line at the petrol station that's offering free Sun papers. All ten people in front of me turned it down. So did I @justice4the96
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5 years
@GaryLineker I’m spending a blessed season in League One. Honest teams, crap refs, hysterical managers, boisterous fans, nonsense goals, bravery, brilliance, bolts from the blue. Just as it used to be watching you Gary. No VAR in sight. Football in the raw. I recommend it.
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5 years
I’ve been fortunate to see some remarkable sporting phenomena in my writing career but I have to say that @wwfcofficial is something rather special.
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4 years
@campbellclaret @johnredwood As a current resident of Redwood’s constituency but someone brought up in Leigh-on-Sea, a fishing village and grew to know fishing folk, I find this imbecile’s continuing rants about fishing deeply offensive. He doesn’t have a bloody clue.
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6 years
To @RafaelNadal my heartfelt congratulations on an 11th @rolandgarros I am truly blessed to know him, his family, and his team. He is an absolute gentleman. I wouldn’t be surprised if he wins Wimbledon too.
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4 years
Story told ⁦ @wwfcofficial ⁩ 🙏🙏
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2 years
@MailOnline What qualifications do you need to become a royal ‘expert?’
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3 years
Things you love to see ⁦ @wwfcofficial
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3 years
I wished with all I had Wycombe had stayed up this season. I know the club received numerous apologies from officials/assessors after reviews of decisions against them. Cost at least a dozen points. Losing first 7 left a hill too steep to climb. They'll be back, better #COYB
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4 years
This doesn’t come around very often in one’s life! Wycombe ahead of Liverpool. ⁦ @wwfcofficial ⁩ ⁦⁦ @LFC
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9 years
I've known Maria since she was 17, she's always been honest and straight. Exactly the same today. This must be killing her. #MariaSharapova
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@Mike_Dickson_DM My pal. A confidant, supporter, terrific journalist, press box companion, social chum in so many places across the world, knew his stuff, doyen of the British group. This has hit me like a thunderbolt. Much love to Lucy and the children. I really don’t know what else to say 🎾😢
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4 years
@NeilClark66 @cjsnowdon I know of a girl who went to a test centre on Friday, spent hours in the queue and finally left without having having been tested. The next day she received a text saying she’d tested positive. How many more examples of this are there??
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@BorisJohnson You’ve been utterly hopeless from the moment you failed to attend the first four Cobra meetings on the virus. You’ve NEVER had the best interests of the population at heart, only your own self-aggrandisement. A charlatan of a ‘Prime Minister’. Do us all a favour and step aside.
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4 years
@piersmorgan Zero deaths in English hospitals in the last 24 hours from COVID-19. Something to applaud.
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4 years
I don’t know if I’m the only one but after Johnson exonerated Cummings I simply stopped listening to him. He’s an emperor with no clothes. No one believes or trusts anything he says anymore. We have no leadership. Britain is absolutely buggered.
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One of the finest people I've met in my life turns 30 years of age today. Known him since he was 17. Blessed. Feliz cumpleanos @RafaelNadal
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5 years
@MarinaHyde The man who put the anus in Coriolanus. The line of the year! Thanks for making my Saturday, Marina.
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8 years
Good for the soul to see @RafaelNadal back doing what he's always done best. None quite like him.
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2 years
I wrote a book about @wwfcofficial two years ago. I stand by every word. I really hope they are promoted to the Championship for so many reasons, the best of all is they are a lovely group of people who deserve everything they receive. 💙💙
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This is absolutely incredible. And I was supposed to be bad for tennis. The hypocrisy here stinks.
US Open is sponsored by Moderna vaccine. US Open Director, Stacey Allaster, is on Board of Directors of Laver Cup, owned by Federer. US Open and USTA actively refused to apply for exemption for Novak, while allowing unvaccinated Americans to play.
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Sitting car park at The Bull in Bisham thinking of the man on the left. Steve Curry and I travelled the world, he of the Express, me of the Mail, rivals yes but friends first. We had tons of laughs, worked and played hard, whether writing, drinking, golfing. Loved him. Bye Steve
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@piersmorgan The first to die was actually last week, Dr Habib Zhadi, in intensive care at Southend Hospital. He was my family’s GP from the 60s to the noughties and tended to both my parents in their last days. It was the saddest of moments when I heard the news.
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Margaret Findlay, official joint owner of Denman,mother of Harry and Gordon, has passed away peacefully. An extraordinary character in life and in latter years in the racing fraternity. A lot of very sad people today @AP_McCoy @dickyjohnson77 @PFNicholls @RacingPost
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5 years
@GaryLineker @InigoGilmore You should ask one question. If you think the answer is unacceptable, you reserve the right to a follow-up. That was how it has and always should be. Then it’s the next person’s turn.
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6 years
It is to the eternal shame of tennis that there is not a single UK TV outlet taking the last @DavisCup final in its present format. The event was formed in 1900 as an alliance between the USA and GB. It is a magnificent international event, now soured by money-grabbers.
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5 years
At the end of the second set today, John Inverdale dismissed Fernando Verdasco's challenge against Kyle Edmund, which showed a complete lack of any tennis understanding. I'm amazed he's still allowed to commentate.
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6 years
@EdKrassen Hahaha. For once, Fox News has it spot on.
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7 years
Front page of @TimesMagazine today. Great insight and fascinating interview with @TheBorisBecker
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@Jacob_Rees_Mogg @BorisJohnson The paper that sacked him for making stuff up, endorses the man who makes stuff up. You couldn't make it up.
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4 years
Officially available from tomorrow. A month on from the end of the season at a near-empty Wembley Stadium and it's still a bit of a blur. @wwfcofficial Close Quarters
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6 years
@jiveDurkey @Johnludds This picture is an outrage. The man has absolutely not a shred of shame.
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@BestOfDullMen My dear old [but reasonably dull] Dad [who passed 40 years ago] would never have gravy on his favourite boiled potatoes and would miraculously wake on Saturday evenings in his favourite armchair immediately the Match of the day theme tune came on.
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@johnredwood That’s it, plenty of friendly negotiation. A lot of us actually prefer the French to little England Brexiteers
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9 years
Andrea Jaeger posted an open letter to @MariaSharapova on her Facebook page. A fascinating read @kevinmitchell50
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@ChrissieEvert Chrissie: they went to California to escape publicity and then agree to do a ‘tell-all’ special with Oprah and open-top bus ride with James Corden. I’m afraid they’re making a mockery of demanding privacy while perpetuating their ‘brand.’ They can’t have it both ways.
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@NBCNews Can anything be more absurdly hypocritical and appallingly nauseating as this from a man who has never attended church regularly and failed to sing a single hymn or pray properly at the funeral of George HW Bush? The man is truly loathsome
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4 years
@halfadams Exactly who do you think you are? My family and many others have reason to be eternally grateful for the Royals and the service they’ve given to this country. Butt out.
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@MrMichaelSpicer I’m lying in a hospital Acute Stroke Unit and have had to ask for a second pee bottle as I’m pissing myself laughing, 😂😂👍😂
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@adilray Hardly the comments of a supposedly objective TV presenter. You should stand down.
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9 months
Alan Mills, the @Wimbledon referee for over 20 years in the 80s and 90s has passed away at the age of 88. He and @Mike_Dickson_DM were good mates, the considerable age difference notwithstanding. What a horrible week for British 🎾 😢😢🍷
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8 years
Wimbledon, Olympic gold and almost certainly World No.1 tennis player in same year. Never in my wildest imaginings @andy_murray
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3 years
Watched the Euro sf in the company of this legend of a commentator, Mike Ingham of ⁦ @bbc5live ⁩ at his home in Looe, Cornwall to where he’s retired. We relived some great memories of times and travels past, long lost friends and plenty of England matches #euro2020
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8 years
@FootballInT80s The sublime Peter Jones. With Bryon Butler he formed greatest BBC football commentary team I ever heard.
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4 years
Ooo look. Peterborough are at Accrington Stanley on the first day of the season. 🙈🙈🙈
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I've never been one for hyperbolic TV commentary but this is a remarkable FA Cup semi final and Lee Dixon sounds as if he's reading the telephone directory. #MUNCOV
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5 years
@GaryLineker At @wwfcofficial on Saturday, the ref fell flat on his face, the lowest paid players in League One went three points clear, we had a pitch invasion (by a partridge) and 70 yo new owner sprinted in the pouring rain to the home fans. No VAR. Football heaven. Come to Adams Park Gary
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7 years
@mk1969 @campbellclaret I listened to @eddiemair at 5 last night expecting a forensic examination of the Wylie evidence given its vital importance and the extent to which brilliant journalism by @carolecadwalla uncovered it. Not a word.
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I've just read the Prince Charles letters. Proof of a man with a heart, an instinct for good, an appreciation of his people. God bless him.
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