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Gosh, who would have thought that some of those movies stars are actually genuinely brave people in their off-screen lives. http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/national/10414744.Stars_brave_drizzle_at_TV_Baftas/

They'll be Miwwawl supporters.

I think it's a symptom of the fact that it is far more important from a financial standpoint to finish well in the Premiership than to win a cup. Top teams typically play squad players and reserves in the early rounds of the cups.

Cricket results in Bradford's Sunday School League http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/10414459.Sha_and_Ullah_bowl_Great_Horton_Church_to_top/

I think that's true of every sports achievement compared to a predecessor event fifty years ago. Sport is presented, and regarded with way too much importance. We used to despise the likes of Cuba and East Germany because they were tinpot countries who used professional sportspeople to gain propaganda by winning medals. It worked internationally and was intended to give a sense of pride to their citizens. Nowadays, successive UK governments have used the same sporting-success policy to camouflage their allowing the decline of the country in terms of world importance and industrial power. The UK's sports successes are presented with a smile rather than a stare, but its still bread and circuses.

Celtic beat Barcelona this season.

Two seasons ago, Arsenal bleated about Samir Nasri going to Man City for more money. This season, Samir said that Arsenal's main shareholder actually wanted him out because of the transfer fee the club could get. Daniel Finkelstein of the Times is a football stats man who judges Premiership managers by how their teams perform in comparison to the money laid out. On the telly tonight he said that, by his calculations, only 3 managers have regularly out performed their outlay ... Alex Ferguson, David Moyes and Sam Allardyce.

Rafa!!

Yes, particularly fans of good football.

Cameron is an anagram of Romance.

Stan's right. In that game today it was if there was an invisible high net near the centre circle that City had to keep kicking the ball over.

If you thought rugby league was tough ...

Bradford City are in the fourth division playoffs tonight. I wouldn't be too disappointed if they won. God, I must be going soft in my old age.

It was agreat documentary. The strange thing is that his own documentaries were on ITV rather than BBC.

I'm from Pontypool and had a season ticket for the mighty Pontypool RFC. For years in the pre-professional era, Newport RUFC cherry-picked from the valley teams, offering jobs and a better chance of a Welsh cap as inducements. Cardiff and Swansea did exactly the same. I quite like the town of Newport but, for most sports, no Pooler man would traditionally support any team with Newport in the title. At school, the valley boys supported Cardiff, the Cwmbran boys supported Newport. The exemption was Newport Wasps, because they were the only speedway team (I think) in Wales. That's why I like to see the Newport Gwent Dragons finish bottom of the Welsh RU regions in the Celtic League.

I think I might consider cheating in a game of football if the correct result was worth a million quid to my Mam and Dad. Obviously, after due consideration, I'd have to refuse to cheat. That's just a minor example of the difference between Bluebirds fans and Jacks.

The press reports that I saw said that his father was a director, not the main shareholder.

Remember that cheating Swansea ballboy? Well, according to The Times, his parents are the club's major shareholders and are worth £50million.

I think you're right. Spurs are reportedly the world's thirteenth-richest club, and therefore are not short of a few bob. Despite this, the Spurs board have always been prepared to sell their best players if the price is right. http://citywire.co.uk/wealth-manager/the-worlds-top-20-richest-football-clubs/a653393#i=13 Apparently, the club are willing to double his wages to £150,000 per week "just to keep him". In fact, that would also boost any calculated transfer fee whilst leaving him on lower money than 8 other Premiership players. http://hamrofootball.com/2013/02/11/highest-paid-footballers-in-the-premier-league/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2289308/Tottenham-ready-offer-Gareth-Bale-40m-stay-White-Hart-Lane--EXCLUSIVE.html A cynical observer might think that by raising his wage by £75,000 per week, and thus boosting his transfer value by (say) £10million, the club could sell him before the September transfer deadline for an extra £10million for a net additional outlay of £1.5million. New Bentleys all round in the boardroom?

Check out the names. http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/leisure/tatheatre/10380688.Champagne_night_of_burlesque_on_offer/?ref=ms

This bloke is a moron and a waste of time. http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/national/10384581.Marlon_King_arrested_after_crash/ Check out the section Incidents and legal cases on his Wikipedia page

Britain's Minister of Sport Venezuela's Minister of Sport https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BIn0sAyCUAEjRMD.jpg:large

Danny Grewcock probably had even more "previous" than Suarez.

Seems that Johnny Morris was a proper Welshman, good to his friends but capable of bearing a grudge. From Wikipedia: Morris … died on 6 May 1999. His wife, Eileen, had died ten years previously, but he had two stepsons. He bequeathed his house to his co-host on Animal Magic, Terry Nutkins, a large sum of cash to his housekeeper, Rita Offer, and smaller sums to his gardener and his builder but he left nothing to his stepsons, his step-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren - possibly due to a failed business partnership which had cost him £500,000.

I thought that. The miserable old cow who's his boss broke him off in his prime.