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James Lawton
Cheltenham: Kauto Star and Denman will never be forgotten
Kauto Star was the first of the mighty to fall, and with hideous
possibilities, and then the other, Denman, was chopped down...
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James Lawton: Gold Cup is final chapter in a gripping rivalry
Friday, 19 March 2010
It may be that finally we are nursing an illusion today in this
Gloucestershire valley where epic performance for so long have been routine.
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James Lawton: Binocular reveals the tunnel-vision of Tony McCoy
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
If Binocular was the horse that maybe should have been named Lazarus, what was
the man on his back, A.P. McCoy?
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James Lawton: Nesbitt is self-styled bard of Cheltenham
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Cheltenham comes round quickly, but then so does life, and in both cases some
of us rarely get round to analysing quite why we enjoy it so much.
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James Lawton: Schumacher to kick up a storm in desert
Saturday, 13 March 2010
It may be true that nowhere is the world less inclined to stand still than in
Formula One but then if anyone can put a brake on the assumption that both
genius and unprecedented achievement can be timed out in a mere four years
surely it is Michael Schumacher.
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James Lawton: Republic of Ireland need a foreign legion
Friday, 5 March 2010
What is it that makes an Irish international footballer: A birthplace, a
passport, an accent or Jack Charlton's rough-and-ready requirement of a
smudge of a bloodline and a spurt of desire?
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James Lawton: Gillings centre stage at hottest ticket in town
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Lindsey Vonn, the superwoman skier of these Olympics may be the centre of
attention today when she flies downhill, but on a mountain 100 miles south
of the classic run last night, Britain's Zoe Gillings was in the middle of a
fight for another kind of stardom.
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James Lawton: Defago shows that age is no barrier
Monday, 15 February 2010
Didier Defago’s time was supposed to have passed, at least as a contender in
the most fabled event of these Winter Olympics, but no-one mentioned it to
the 33-year-old Swiss.
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Olympic tragedy put in shade by cash
Sunday, 14 February 2010
In the small hours of yesterday morning these 21st Winter Olympics, bedevilled by fog on the mountains and what some are saying is a certain moral vacuum at their heart, held their breath for what seemed like a considerable slice of eternity.
James Lawton: Winter Games a cold house for fans
Saturday, 13 February 2010
if Fifa president Sepp Blatter had become a professional rather than amateur
comedian of inexhaustible bad taste he would more likely have been battered
than booed at unforgiving places like the Glasgow Empire.
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James Lawton: Capello must axe John Terry
Thursday, 4 February 2010
Maybe it is true Fabio Capello is biting the bullet, in this case the antique
item known as principle, before granting another reprieve to his serially
yob captain John Terry.
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James Lawton: Federer marvels in his second coming
Monday, 1 February 2010
The great champions, men like Muhammad Ali and Jack Nicklaus, have always
shared an ability to reach down and find again qualities that the world
believed lost forever.
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James Lawton: Neville has not always made right move
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Against a tide of critical comment, Gary Neville must be heartened that
someone has bothered to stress one of his more admirable qualities — his
unfailing willingness to defy the concerns of his club Manchester United and
report for England duty.
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James Lawton: Stats not adding up for Murray
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Destiny called to Andy Murray again in Melbourne today but not in overtime, we
are reassured by the statistics.
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James Lawton: Jose Mourinho just perfect to take over at Manchester United
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Sometimes reading between the lines in football can create a neon-like glare.
So it is with the linking of Manchester United and Jose Mourinho.
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James Lawton: Ferguson’s United are ‘worth’ watching
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Rumours that Barcelona's Pep Guardiola is lined up as the future coach at Old
Trafford clearly have nothing to do with the insistence by the Manchester
United Supporters Trust that a reported call for the replacement of Sir Alex
Ferguson was the work of one maverick member.
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James Lawton: Strauss needs to be a leader like Waugh
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Three former England captains, David Gower, Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain,
have now deplored here the decision of their successor Andrew Strauss to
take a break from the tour of Bangladesh.
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James Lawton: Maradona still possesses an aura
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Whatever reservations we have about the wisdom of Argentina's appointment of
Diego Maradona as coach there can be no doubt about his enduring magnetism.
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James Lawton: Wenger is right, fear must not halt African Nations Cup
Monday, 11 January 2010
Emmanuel Adebayor could not have put it with more pain or more affectingly.
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James Lawton: Sir Alex is still on time
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Some may have thought it was inconceivable that Sir Alex Ferguson would again
bang on about the paltry amount of stoppage time granted to his team when
they sought to salvage a match which, he agreed, was won by the better side.
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James Lawton: Grayson follows the Venables way
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Malcolm Allison didn't say a word in the Crystal Palace dressing room at
half-time. He just stood in the corner with a small, slightly beatific smile
on his face as the man he had handpicked as his coaching protégé, Terry
Venables, delivered a series of one-on-one brainstorming sessions with each
player.
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