A Shining Light
By The Spotter Life and fate can be exceptionally cruel. A shining light extinguished far too early and what unimaginable sorrow for her husband, Duane and their children- Tayla, Charlie and Matt.[…]
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Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Footballers- Indelible Boyhood Memories
By The Spotter I welled up yesterday morning and a part of my heart broke. Steve Sumner was just the bee’s knees for me as an impressionable, mad-on-football 11 year-old, with[…]
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Veteran Ringmaster Banishes Demons and Tames two Beasts
By The Spotter When after ten agonising years, Roger Federer got one over his long-term old rival Rafael Nadal in the fifth set of a major final, Federer’s boundless, child-like[…]
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A Top Ten of British Football Wind-Ups From Years Gone By
By The Spotter A Happy New Year to whoever out there is still reading this stuff. Many thanks. We all love hearing a good sporting wind-up and no doubt the wittier the better, perhaps so long as[…]
Your Coat, Sir…oh, and Your Ethics
By The Spotter It was a peloton of pig-headedness; a slimy trail of misconception and egoism headed up by the narcissistic slug at the front. A ghastly sight for sure. Imagine[…]
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Ten and Ten Equals 24-19
By The Spotter Two sublime performances thirty-seven years apart, given by two flyhalves slim in stature and fleet of foot was also perfectly paralleled by the same scoreline, 24-19. The first coming in Auckland in July 1979,[…]
He Said, She Said, and On It Goes
By The Spotter There has been a lot said and written this week. Is it right to say that the All Blacks have become ‘a dirty team’ on the basis of[…]
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Revenge Served on Emeralds, But at What Cost?
By The Spotter The pride in being an All Black is nigh on insurmountable. And make no mistake, that reversal in Chicago would have hurt and grated like hell. So[…]
All Blacks Shunted Off Track by Runaway Irish Locomotive
By The Spotter It was quite the train wreck for the All Blacks. There would be no Crotty-Cruden fairytale this time, either. And in a funny way we really should have seen it coming, although the[…]
