Ten reasons why losing to Iceland today wouldn’t be as bad as you think: We can all stop deluding ourselves we’re experts in politics and resume pretending we’re experts in football. Our hooligan contingent can return home, get a new tattoo and catch up on …
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Unemployed bum or novelist-to-be? Addicted to my iPad or chained to my word processor? Getting up at 1pm or early riser? It’s been two weeks since I left my job, so how have I’ve been getting on? Freedom Friday 1st July. Today is my first …
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Nadal. Hamilton. Robson. All of these sportspersons have one thing in common: they all realised one of their dreams this weekend. Raphael Nadal first. Have you ever seem someone battle so hard for their dream, against the best of the best, and keep going for …
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Eight miles over two days. Doesn’t sound a lot in the grand scheme of things, but it does consist of a difficult five-miler outside yesterday and one three-miler on the treadmill today. Back-to-back, that’s not bad for the first week of my proper schedule, and …
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