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You've been flamed: Drama at the Aviva as the BBC's Supersers suffer a tiny malfunction

The strife of Brian in quest for Holy Grail

One down, four to go, as the Six Nations burst back onto our screens on Saturday lunchtime with the game no-one gives a monkeys about — France v Italy.

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Billy on the Box: Never mind touchdowns Sky wins it hands down

Friday, 10 February 2012

Who would have thought that the names Manning and Madonna would ever share top of the bill? Well apart from that night at the Embassy Club in Manchester when there was a real true blue evening they still talk about.
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Billy on the Box: Magic Marty in a league of his own

Friday, 10 February 2012

GAA fans like myself and Peter Robinson sat down to a new season of GAA as League Sunday returned to our screens on RTE2 at the weekend.
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Billy on the Box: Never mind tax, it’s Mario’s stamp duty that’s overdue

Friday, 27 January 2012

I'll be honest, I’ve never really been sure what Skype is and only recently was I taken to one side and told it’s something to do with phoning people and not something to expect between 1.00 and 6.00pm on certain Sundays.

Billy on the Box: A Knight an elephant wouldn’t forget

Friday, 27 January 2012

I have to hold my hands up and admit that the prospect of the start of the African Cup of Nations had me as thrilled as Michael Caine standing at the top of Rorke’s Drift wearing an ‘I hate Zulus’ T-shirt, but I couldn’t have been more wrong.
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Newington players hear the news that Final Score managed to get their scoreline correct on Saturday

Billy on the Box: It’s time Final Score had a late kick-off

Friday, 20 January 2012

Contrary to popular belief down Ormeau Avenue way, I don’t spend every waking hour sticking pins into a wee doll in the shape of Broadcasting House.
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Billy on the Box: Des Lynam floats like a butterfly as Gary Linekar goes quiet

Friday, 20 January 2012

If you wanted evidence as to the difference between a presenter and a sportsman turned presenter then Des Lynam and Gary Lineker stated their cases this week.
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Billy on the Box: Good lord, Trimble has the Tigers in Ravenhell

Friday, 20 January 2012

Gary Lineker, Willie Thorne, Engelbert Humperdinck, Gok Wan, Biddy Baxter, Showaddywaddy — your boys took one helluva beating!
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Billy on the Box: Big Pat’s gone but no time to cry Wolfie

Friday, 13 January 2012

It was tragic news from Albert Square regarding the untimely demise of Pat Butcher but how nice of the BDO World Darts Championship (or the not very good one, as it’s better known) to pay its own personal tribute to Eastenders’ femme fatale.
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Back: Paul Scholes

Billy on the Box: Santa’s back but it’s Roy who is Keane to deliver

Thursday, 12 January 2012

And to think some people say there’s no Santa Claus. My letter to Lapland, thankfully not mixed up this year with the one I sent to Lapdancingland, which is still being investigated, asked the big man with the white hair in the red suit if he could bring back the wee man with the orange hair in the red shirt.
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Feeling green: Rory McIlroy goes cross country as his Masters dream hits the rough

TV sport’s winners and losers from 2011

Thursday, 29 December 2011

It has been another bumper year for sport on the old gogglebox and with that in mind, plus the fact that there’s very little on this week and I have my own bodyweight in Sports Mixture and Walnut Whips to eat, I’ve decided to follow everyone else and provide a look back at the past 12 months.
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Ben Maher guides Tripple X to victory including clearing the very tricky Norwich City chopstick fence

Billy on the Box: Ben's big win in nick of time for Olympics

Friday, 23 December 2011

I'm nothing if not up for a challenge so it was with a degree of thran-ness that I turned my back on Sky’s insistence that Sunday’s football schedule was a Christmas Cracker to find my novelty and silly hats elsewhere — with Clare Balding.
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Billy on the Box: There’s just not enough name calling at the darts

Friday, 23 December 2011

I am a darter of a certain vintage, brought up in an era when lumbering giants ruled the earth and the nickname was the preserve of only the special few.
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Billy on the Box: A great escape for Trimble in Italian job

Friday, 23 December 2011

It's the festive period and no better time then for Ulster to put their feet up, relax with a nice glass of Chianti and enjoy a repeat of the Italian Job.
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Hopefully Olga will be able to help Michel Platini free himself from
the trophy before Spain inevitably win the Euro 2012 title next summer

Billy on the Box: Euro 2012 quick on the draw? You must be kidding

Thursday, 8 December 2011

If the Euro 2012 finals are even a smidgen as exciting as the draw for the main event then we’re in for one zany bumper summer of fun.
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Billy on the Box: It’s a cold house for talented British ladies

Thursday, 8 December 2011

You can’t have failed to notice the change in the air this week but even I was slightly taken aback to walk into the office and find Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards standing there.
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Billy on the Box: Final straw for Savage and Sidebottom

Thursday, 8 December 2011

The words ‘Savage’ and ‘Sidebottom’ really shouldn’t sit comfortably in any sentence but then again Saturday’s night’s viewing was as awkward as going lingerie shopping with your granny.
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Mark Webber reacts to the news that the F1 season is over

Billy on the Box: Big, hairy and scary at the Brazilian GP

Thursday, 1 December 2011

You knew it was going to be one of those days on Formula One when the first thing Sebastian Vettel promised to do after the Brazilian Grand Prix was have a close shave. Please, stop sniggering at the back.
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Billy on the Box: Kilmarnock boss Kenny is ruler of Ulster Scots

Thursday, 1 December 2011

It was nice to see one man from Northern Ireland taking on Glasgow opponents on a rugby park in Scotland and winning at the weekend.
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Billy on the Box: Bad breaks for Boris and Boris but not Roger

Thursday, 1 December 2011

So it was Roger against Wilfried in the final of the Beano Championships at the O2 Arena on Sunday, and against all odds it turned out to be a cracker of a final.
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Big Bill Werbeniuk always had plenty of puff at the snooker table

Billy on the Box: No more Power to our elbow

Thursday, 24 November 2011

It takes a real man to wear pink, and to pot them too if ITV4’s powers-that-be are to be believed.
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