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- Nov 9, 2018
- 2 min
From Small Acorns...
There's a yawning gap in my sporting experience - I've never launched a netball ball in anger or joy; in fact, I've never even held a netball ball! Shock horror! Especially as the game, a derivative of basketball, devised around 1900, is played by over 20 million (mainly in British Commonwealth countries), and is pushing for Olympic status. I could bridge that gap at West Lothian Netters. October 2015. Cue a Facebook page, 'Bounce back to Netball', designed to seduce couch po
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- Sep 1, 2018
- 2 min
Ask 100 people...
...who is the greatest sportsperson of all time? And three will answer Cassius Clay, 96 Muhammad Ali and one ANother, for example Zatopek, Bannister, Laver, Borg, Navratilova, Redgrave, Schumacher, Joyner-Kersee, Phelps, Federer, Bolt, Jordan, Pele, Woods, Messi, Nicklaus, Warne, Comaneci, Sobers, Campese, Indurain, Moses, Best or Lottie Dodd (please Google her). ............…...….......space for your own choice. None will answer Beckham, (I hope). You will know that Clay and
Editor
- Aug 6, 2018
- 2 min
Nae running!
Over 50 and missing the hybrid scent of liniment and sweat? Then get yourself and your leather-studded boots down to Linlithgow Rugby indoor arena on a Monday at 18.15 prompt! Seven years ago, in the unlikely venue of Chesterfield, a football revolution broke out. It wasn't an uprising of the Birmingham Zulus, the Millwall Bushwhackers, the Hull City Psychos, the Falkirk Fear or any other football hooligan army. No, at the other extreme, it was a gentle version of the beauti
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- Jul 2, 2018
- 3 min
The Livi Lions Rollercoaster
Every Livingston Football Club entrance ticket should be supplied with a free travel sickness pill to counteract the up and down, North Sea trawler type ordeal of supporting them. Embarking on season 17/18, the team's plotted course was merely to consolidate its League one status, so for players who experienced the nadir of relegation two seasons earlier, the fairytale promotion represents vindication and sweet rehabilitation. Raffaele de Vita had even, in his first spell wit
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