Tag Archives: cricket

Maria Sharapova is now unmasked as another sports ‘drug cheat’, and about to bite the dust – but will she really?

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The sporting world is again faced with the stark truth that in modern times, many-many competitors in many-many different sports like cycling, football, baseball, weightlifting, volleyball, judo, wrestling, rowing, equestrian, gymnastics, field hockey, athletics track & field, rugby league, basketball, snooker, boxing, cricket, et al, are prepared to shamefully cheat their clean opponents, the organisers, […]

Some abject National failures are hitting home now – will they skew the UK General Election in May 2015?

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You may not believe it, but sometimes performance in sport actually influences what people think about politics and that can then even determine the government’s survival. Ridiculous though it may sound, such events that government had nothing to do with, can affect the decisions made on election day and boost vote share either way – […]

The Worse Cheats & Criminals in Sport – Is Luis Suarez footballer amongst them?

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Luis Suarez is well despised in Britain isn’t he (apart from Liverpool of course, as he plays for them), because he put the final nail in England’s World Cup demise with two goals!)? He has just been suspended (nine games), fined (100K Swiss francs) and banned from all stadiums (four months). Why? Did he punch […]

British Education – Problem that’s solved then?

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A previous post here (Programme for International Student Assessment) recounted the demise of education in Britain, as demonstrated by the UK’s sorry performance in OECD’s PISA latest survey on the state of global education – Asian counties topped the pile, while we have dropped down to the mid twenties (fifteen years ago we were in […]

Sportsmen – when exactly did ‘they’ become extinct?

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A short while ago saw the passing away of an English footballer. His name is Tom Finney and he had played for Preston North End and England. He was a renowned forward, a prolific goal scorer, with a reputation of one of the greatest players of his era – it is said that he would […]

Cheating Sportsmen and Criminals – Two Sides of the Same Coin!

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In every society you get cheats, big cheats and small cheats – men & women who won’t follow the rules their culture and fellow human beings adhere to. Why is this? It is because they are determined to place their self-interest above all else, and above everyone else. These cheats hit us from all walks of […]