All posts tagged "Fifty Shades of May"
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50 Shades of May
/ 7 months agoFSOM: Sporting minnows are not a waste of time – for every powerhouse, there are inspirational stories such as Gary White’s
A footballing circumnavigation of the globe from the Southampton Sunday Leagues to Taiwan, via the Bahamas, Pacific Islands and Japan is...
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50 Shades of May
/ 7 months agoFSOM: Winter Olympics’ ‘Penisgate’ is eye-watering – who decided that injecting male privates with hyaluronic acid is a good idea!
OUCH! That’s the only word you could use in reaction to the latest attempt by athletes to gain that important micro-edge...
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50 Shades of May
/ 7 months agoFSOM: Tomorrow Golf League is artificial but attracts the world’s best while reaching a new and younger audience through its popularity
Nobody is sure if it was Oscar Wilde or Mark Twain who described golf as ‘a good walk spoiled.’ Whichever of...
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50 Shades of May
/ 8 months agoFSOM: The Hahnenkamm is the most prestigious ski race in the world – even if you are not an aficionado here is why it is must see
Quiz time. Where will the biggest crowd at any sporting event on the planet be this weekend? It won’t be at...
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50 Shades of May
/ 8 months agoFSOM: The Enhanced Games trumpets ‘the future of human endurance’ but what about the long-term health effects on its athletes?
The men’s 100metres final in the 1988 Seoul Olympics has been described as ‘the dirtiest race in history’. Original winner Ben...
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50 Shades of May
/ 8 months agoFSOM: US president Donald Trump is turning the 2026 World Cup into a political circus
FSOM is back from his Chrimbo break. The object of the exercise was a flit across the Herring Pond to visit...
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50 Shades of May
/ 9 months agoFSOM: England’s failure to prepare for Ashes tour is a microcosm of cricket’s relentless search of cramming the calendar to maximise cash
Bloody tourists. You can’t abide living with them, but you can’t survive without them. That’s the dilemma facing numerous Caribbean islands,...
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50 Shades of May
/ 9 months agoFSOM: Wales’ 73-0 loss to South Africa wasn’t just a defeat or a humiliation – it was the sad and chastening end to an era
If The Lion King has taught us anything, it is that the animal kingdom is cruel. And wildlife documentaries prove there...
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50 Shades of May
/ 10 months agoFSOM: Travis Head’s heroic Australia Ashes innings was beautiful to see unlike his haircut – from crazy perms, mohicans and failed combovers have all been tried by sport stars
Travis Head’s 123 for Australia to put England to the sword in the first Ashes Test was a thing of beauty....
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50 Shades of May
/ 10 months agoFSOM: Premier League’s erosion of Boxing Day football has me worried – why I think it’s a prelude to removing relegation in the future
What are you doing on Boxing Day? Anything special? I only ask because if you are a fan of a Premier...
