The Moment that made me hug a stranger

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I truly love sport, it has one of the most unifying effects in the World. A great moment in sport could lead to two complete strangers hugging each other in a completely un-awkward, unobtrusive way. It got me thinking about Continue reading

Who will replace Sir Alex Ferguson

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After 26 years at Manchester United, a time that transformed the Red Devils into the biggest brand in World football. In his time at the club Sir Alex won 13 Premier League titles, 5 FA Cup’s, 4 League Cups, 2 Continue reading

The English Premier League Team of the Season

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The English Premier League has been as one-sided as a battle of the sexes at a Justin Bieber concert, Manchester United have marched through to the title on the back of some great and some average play. The battle for Continue reading

Great Scott! One of sports worst runs ended!

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Yesterday as the unthinkably likeable Aussie (I know, its difficult to say), triumphed in golfs greatest major. His jubilation after throwing away the Open Championship last year was unbridaled and he may very well be one of those golfers that Continue reading

Masters Par 3 – A Curse, but the Perfect Curtain Raiser

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Last night, this football loving blogger, skipped the Champions League quarter finals and spent my time watching one of the funnest curtain raising events that you can see, the Par 3 Challenge at the Masters. Here are my reasons why Continue reading

Top 10 Feuding Teammates

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Last week we witnessed the fallout between Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber as well as the spectacular fight between Kurtley Beale and Cooper Vuna for the Rebels, leaving the team in a state of tatters. This led to a great Continue reading

My Protea team for the Champions Trophy

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After the completion of the, ultimately, successful one-day series against Pakistan, the Protea’s next international assignment will be the Champions Trophy in England. Based on all the below being fit, I have decided to pick my own team for the Continue reading

The Laureus Sports Awards 2013

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The Laureus Sports Awards are essentially the sporting equivalent of the Academy Awards. They have been around for 14 years now and are the only awards that pit the best of every sport against each other. The awards are always of Continue reading

The EPL fight for Europe – Closer than it looks

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The battle for the English Premier League title is about as exciting as the 2nd hour of a 6 hour provincial chess game, with Manchester United so far ahead that the gap between them and second place could avoid relegation. Continue reading

The Pakistan Test Series – Winners and Losers

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On the back of the successful test series against Australia and New Zealand, Graeme Smith and his boys took on the Pakistani’s in the last of the summer tests. And once again the Protea’s demonstrated the ruthless ability to strangle Continue reading

Sports Greatest Disappointments

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Following the thoroughly disappointing penalty shoot out defeat of Bafana Bafana this past weekend, I had an interchange on twitter with the brilliant Cindy Poluta. I was emotional and was probably sadder than I have been in a while. Cindy pointed out that Continue reading

Some great sport commercials

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This week Nike released the new Nike Golf advert, which is brilliantly awesome. So I started trolling Youtube a bit and have put together some of my favourite sporting adverts here for your benefit. Nike Golfs – No cup is Continue reading