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Come friendly bombs and fall on St George’s Park! It isn’t fit for humans now – the case for half-penalties.
Ruinous in the sense that the game, in all its important moments, has been taken over by book-learnt, plodding, computer assisted pedantry, that is the ONLY skill that these natural-born bureaucrats bring to the game.
A pair of serves has made the game go Tsits
That’s why people like Tsitsipas, who still hangs around with his fishwife mum, and gets his girlfriends from agencies, is so bad for the game.
June 9th – Multiplicating, that’s the name of the game.
Consider this for a rule change: there has to be clear air between the attacker and the defender.
May 28th – no.4: a la recherche du temps perdu.
Its pin-striped, bowler-hatted, serious looking men, constantly exchanging chits of paper with each other to no ultimate purpose, evokes Dickens' circumlocution office.
21st May – Out of me box.
Only a few years ago if you failed in an attempt to kill yourself, you were prosecuted and sent to prison, now you’re given a cup of tea, and a leaflet to read.
15th May – Penalties reversed.
So instead, they adapt their play to take away this risk, and they remove this cheat from their playbook. That’s what a deterrent looks like: utter terror of the consequences of being rumbled. Ask anyone who stole an orange and got sent to Australia for it.
7th March – Varsity football is rank amateur.
It's like measuring the time of a 100m sprint to the hundredth of a second, having started it with a flag.
Places Reversed – reviews. November 13th.
Place Reversed is a rollercoaster of suspense, intrigue, and counter-intrigue.
Dickie White's Diary 
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