Whole New Ball Game

David Beckham capped his Real Madrid career with a league title.
Beckham, 32, has been at Real for four seasons but the 3-1 win over Mallorca sealed a first major Spanish honour for the United States-bound star.
A brace from Jose Antonio Reyes, on loan from Arsenal, and an Angelos Basinas own goal clinched Real’s crown.
It is […]

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Apologies for the lack of work on show.
If we’re honest with you the office went to see The Go! Team and we’re suffering like Sebestian Diesler in a dark room.
Ouch.
John Terry’s wedding tomorrow. We’ll be watching him walk flat-footed up the aisle.
See you at the weekend. Honest.

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Toulouse forward Trevor Brennan’s life ban from playing rugby has been reduced to a five-year suspension.
In March, the European Rugby Cup (ERC) found Brennan guilty of assaulting an Ulster fan at a Heineken Cup game and he was handed the life ban.
However an independent appeals panel has ruled that the initial maximum penalty was “disproportionate”.
Brennan’s […]

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Full-time footballer and part-time boxer Joey Barton will be beating up team-mates in the north-east.
The most over-rated midfielder of his generation will be taking his I’m-one-of-the-best-players-in-England delusion grand tour to Newcastle who don’t seem to mind that he isn’t very good.
Then again the Magpies did sign Bellamy, Bramble, Moore, Carr…….

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What more do you want? That’s pretty much it.
Oh, the squad…here it is then.
Lazy sods. The things we do for you [like copy and paste the squad from the second Test].
Michael Vaughan (capt), Alastair Cook, Andrew Strauss, Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood, Ian Bell, Matt Prior (wkt), Liam Plunkett, Steve Harmison, Ryan Sidebottom, Monty Panesar.

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[engage Super League; Twickenham Stoop Stadium:
Harlequins (8) 18 - (4) 8 Wigan]
Quins further upset the odds in Super League by taking the prized scalp of Wigan Warriors.
In fact, this was Quins fourth victory in five games of egg-chasing.
They are now level with Wigan in joint fourth place with 16 points. St Helens are […]

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[Second Test; Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria:
South Africa (17) 55 - (19) 22 England]
Brian Ashton’s England were on the end of another hiding from the South Africans as more pressure was heaped upon the coach.
Despite a spirited display and a half-time lead the tourists were unable to live with the home side after the break.
Still, at […]

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[International, Wembley:
England (Terry 68) 1 - 1 Brazil (Diego 90)]
A stoppage-time header from Diego denied the return of David Beckham a fairytale ending.
The Werder Bremen playmaker beat England ‘keeper Paul Robinson deep into time added-on to cancel out John Terry’s header, assisted by Beckham.
But to fair this was the very least Brazil deserved.
They were the […]

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When most of the team has got the serious sh*ts, the last thing you want is the rest of the team to suffer…right?
Wrong. Step forward England.
They were laid low by a virus, then laid to rest by a rampant South Africa and now the remainder of the squad have been laid out by the same […]

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[Championship Promotion Final, Wembley:
Derby County 1 - 0 West Bromwich Albion - Derby promoted to the Premier League]
Billy Davies’ Derby County will be getting thrashed by the top teams in the land after they won a thrilling play-off final at Wembley.
The win means Derby will return to the Premier League after a five year absence […]

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