Sometimes, being an exiled Bluenose makes you feel exactly that – exiled. You tend to miss things that people at home take for granted. Banter in the street, the feeling of superiority after a derby day win, the idiotic ramblings of the TalkSPORT pundits, the genius of Jeff Stelling’s over dramatising Liverpool’s demise. Sure, it’s
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England have been drawn to face the United States, Algeria and Slovenia in the group stage, (group C), of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. What an easy draw, we can be concentrating on who we will get after qualifying with 9 points. It could well be Germany, as they are in a difficult
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Hello London, this is Sydney(ish) calling. I’ve been in Australia for about a year now. I’m happy to report that things are going well. To quote a balding sixty-something year old New York song writer “Things are okay with me these days, I got a good job, I got a good office, I got a
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To be authentic in the new approach to the blog, I had wanted to start blogging about Blues and life as an exiled Bluenose from the moment I touched down in Australia. This hasn’t strictly been possible although that said, Blues didn’t play until today – my second morning in the country. From memory, I
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Hello. Joys & Sorrows is back. It’ll be a bit different to what it formally was and I’ll be writing from a more personal point
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