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Billy on the Box

Windsor Park or animal park?

Tuning in to Sky’s coverage of Northern Ireland v Serbia on Saturday evening I had to check I hadn’t pressed the wrong button on the remote control.
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Inside Billy on the Box

Billy on the Box: Hayes has the X Factor

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

What about that then, the judges shocking the world by giving the verdict to the underdog when everyone seemed to have thought it was a foregone conclusion.
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Billy on the Box: The hand of Gub

Wednesday, 4 November 2009

I have many guilty secrets — my love of green wine gums, Katherine Jenkins, sheep, Wotsits, wearing two pairs of socks at all times, Tom Jones' Las Vegas years and an unhealthy fascination with Dana.
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Billy on the Box: Gym'll fix it

Wednesday, 21 October 2009

I speak to you from my hospital bed where teams of surgeons have been working through the night with crow bars, axle grease and gritted teeth to try and prise me out of my all-in-one leotard I bought especially for the World Gymnastics Championships.
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Billy on the Box: It's all a blur

Wednesday, 14 October 2009

Back on a lovely summer's day in 1996 I made my one and only visit to the RDS in Dublin's Fair City, not for a sporting event, but to see Blur play, so 13 years on it was fitting that's what I was left in after Mark Robson's Heineken Cup introduction on Sky on Friday evening.
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Billy on the Box: Calzaghe's box trot

Wednesday, 7 October 2009

It's sad really to see a once great boxing champion being forced to shuffle around a glitzy arena in a strange costume surrounded by has-beens or wannabes desperate for fame.
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Billy on the Box: Hughes was of the Mark

Wednesday, 23 September 2009

Everyone needs good neighbours but you get the feeling that Mark Hughes won't be nipping around to Sir Alex's house to borrow a cup of vitriol and his spare Casio any day soon.
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Billy on the Box: Adebayor's got Togo

Wednesday, 16 September 2009

Sickening, stomach-turning, shameful and reprehensible. No, not Emmanuel Adebayor's eventful day at Eastlands, Gary Lineker's introduction on Match of the Day on Saturday night.
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Billy on the Box: Lady GaGa

Wednesday, 9 September 2009

JESSICA Fletcher was, as usual, away for a weekend's break at some long-lost cousin's house when disaster struck and someone was left sprawled in a heap with blood lashing out of them and their toes pointing up to the ceiling.
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Billy on the Box: Hair we all go

Wednesday, 2 September 2009

Okay, I don't mind that Real Madrid came wading in with a stuffed donkey, a couple of cases of San Miguel and the Duty Free box-set to woo away Cristiano Ronaldo but I draw the line at stealing Usain Bolt.
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Billy on the Box: X and Y factor

Wednesday, 26 August 2009

Many of us thought that the immortal wise words of Shania Twain — ‘man, I feel like a woman' were just some old country dirge. Little did we realise that it was in fact the South African athletics team deciding which races they were going to take part in at the World Championships in Berlin — allegedly.
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Billy on the Box: Friendly fire

Wednesday, 19 August 2009

What is the point of international friendlies — other than giving Matt Smith something to do on ITV now that their sport consists of England games, RPM and Paul Clarke’s Big Boy’s Tales of Tall Ships.
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Billy on the Box: Set in stone

Wednesday, 12 August 2009

The Football League Show — the programme for the modern stone age soccer family. Or should I say programmes as it appears to have become a refuge for nomadic presenters and set designers.
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Billy on the Box: Country Fest and Milk Cup

Wednesday, 5 August 2009

All week on our local news channels we were being bombarded by strangers to these shores coming to entertain large crowds of people in strange clothes who really should know better.
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Billy on the Box: Cool runnings

Wednesday, 29 July 2009

Thank heavens for Hazel Irvine. Not words that are used that often I grant you but what a joy it is to see athletics on the BBC being fronted by a proper presenter again.
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Billy on the Box: Weakest links

Wednesday, 22 July 2009

Gary Lineker's Northern Exposure hits our screens this week as he and his latest birdie freeload their way around Northern Ireland at our expense.
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Billy on the Box: it’s g'dai to The Ashes

Wednesday, 15 July 2009

The Ashes are here and the first thing I see is a strange blonde-haired man with a plummy voice being very posh and annoying. And then David Gower brought on Rhydian, not Shane Warne as we had been promised in the never-ending ream of ads over the summer.
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