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Roger Alton

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Sport / Can anyone stop France in the Six Nations?

Sport / Can anyone stop France in the Six Nations?
30.01.2025 1

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Roger Alton

Can anyone stop France in the Six Nations?

Can anyone stop France in the Six Nations?
30.01.2025 10

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Roger Alton

The unnecessary complexity of the World Test Championship 

The unnecessary complexity of the World Test Championship 
16.01.2025 10

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Roger Alton

Could Thomas Tuchel be the one?

You would have to be living a very sheltered life not to have noticed that the Premier League this season is one of the best and the brightest for...

02.01.2025 2

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Roger Alton

Sport / The best (and worst) of this year’s sport

It was quite a year for some of the worst of sport – America’s golfers, already among the richest and greediest men on the planet, wanting a...

30.12.2024 2

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Roger Alton

The best (and worst) of this year’s sport

It was quite a year for some of the worst of sport – America’s golfers, already among the richest and greediest men on the planet, wanting a...

12.12.2024 5

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Roger Alton

The towering talent of Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii

When it comes to dishing out God’s gifts, you feel the Almighty could be a little more even-handed. Take Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii for example. He is...

14.11.2024 2

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Roger Alton

The glaring mismatch in English football

Your starter for ten: who was the last English manager to win the top flight of English football? Treat yourself to a half-time pie and a mug of...

31.10.2024 2

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Roger Alton

The hypnotic competitiveness of Sir Ben Ainslie

Sailing’s very own ubermensch Sir Ben Ainslie has every right to be considered the world’s most competitive bloke. Those who knew him as a teenager...

17.10.2024 4

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Roger Alton

Sorry, but you’ve got to love the Springboks

There may still be some poor benighted souls who regard the Springboks as the bane of rugby union. If you meet one, get ready to dispense a proper...

03.10.2024 1

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Roger Alton

Why women’s golf is better than men’s

In the exhilarating event of Somerset managing to sneak past Surrey and being on their way to claim their first county cricket championship since...

19.09.2024 3

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Roger Alton

Spectator sport / Mickleover: the real home of cricket

Readers concerned that the seemingly imperious march of Bazball across the cricket firmament has blotted out the more, er, traditional virtues of...

06.09.2024 2

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Roger Alton

The simple beauty of the Hundred

Time to come clean: I really like the Hundred. This is the sort of view that normally makes people look at you as if you had just professed an...

22.08.2024 2

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Roger Alton

This Olympics belongs to the female athletes

You knew it was going to be a superb Olympics from the moment Celine Dion belted out an Edith Piaf classic from the Eiffel Tower. And nothing since...

08.08.2024 2

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Roger Alton

Why Keely Hodgkinson is the one to watch at the Olympics

The Olympics have been creeping up on us through the forest of top-class sport this summer. But now they’re here, the third time the summer Games...

25.07.2024 1

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Roger Alton

Murray shouldn’t have relied on injury-prone Raducanu

Talk about raging against the dying of the light: Andy Murray and President Biden both. Murray because he is no longer as quick on his feet and Joe...

15.07.2024 1

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Roger Alton