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Entries from December 2006

Aussie blokes would give up sex to win Ashes

December 10th, 2006 by Five · Comments Off

?????????? Australian men would be prepared to go without sex to win back cricket’s coveted Ashes, a survey has found. Men’s magazine Zoo Weekly’s survey revealed 41 per cent of the 20,000 respondents said they would abstain from sex for a month if it meant Australia would regain the Ashes from England. Four per cent [...]

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Weekend Sports Talk

December 8th, 2006 by Shaun · 3 Comments

No test match cricket this weekend but plenty to talk about. Like who is Adam Voges? And replacing Tait with Symonds. What’s with that? However the cricketing world will be focused on whether yours truly can pull his side from 6/36 to within a cooee of the opposition’s 175. In other sports, there is the [...]

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Duncan Fletcher on Creating His Own Reality

December 7th, 2006 by Shaun · 7 Comments

Oh, how nice it would be to live in English coach Duncan Fletcher’s world. After Shane Warne rips your team apart, you can say that your team has worked out Warnie or that your selections were not wrong. It seems that Duncan has rejected our reality and submitted his own.

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Some English Press Reaction to the 2nd Test Miracle

December 5th, 2006 by Shaun · 6 Comments

Just coz it is great to rub it in. from Sportlinglife.com: Andrew Flintoff is not one to run up the white flag. But too many of his team-mates did just that on a final day of the second Test in Adelaide which will be forever remembered as English cricket’s day of surrender. How can you [...]

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Pounding Warney

December 4th, 2006 by Shaun · 4 Comments

No, it is not another revelation from the Blonde Sheik of Tweak’s love life. But Warney is copping it from Dick Pound, the chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency over Warney’s 2003 drugs ban. “Cricketer Shane Warne said his mother had given him a diuretic so that he would look slimmer on television, without mentioning [...]

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Ashes 2nd Test Comments Post

December 1st, 2006 by Shaun · 19 Comments

Does England have a prayer entering the second Ashes test at the city of churches? Will the Pigeon be fit? Will Monty take the field for the first time? An intriguing test is on the cards as England will try to fire up and Australia wanting to assert their dominance. Bring it on!

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