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James Lawton
Thierry Henry's confession leaves revolting taste
The Republic of Ireland is entitled to believe it has never seen anything so
cynical, so far removed from the spirit of sport, as the devilish hand
played by Thierry Henry to deny Giovanni Trapattoni's team a place in the
World Cup finals that would have been so thoroughly deserved.
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James Lawton: New Formula One blood brothers facing up to battle
Thursday, 19 November 2009
You wouldn't want to dampen any national fervour surrounding the first British
one-two champion Formula One combination since Graham Hill and Jim Clark
drove for Lotus in 1968 - especially when the new McLaren team-mates Lewis
Hamilton and Jenson Button stopped short yesterday only at nicking their
fingers and announcing themselves official blood brothers.
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James Lawton: Time to scrap the silly rugby titles
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Given his own unforgiving tendency in his days of glory as a player, the
relatively mild critical treatment Martin Johnson has received so far as
England coach may be a little surprising.
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James Lawton: Pacquiao puts on a show worthy of the Four Kings
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Boxing's ability to re-invent itself against heavy odds was never better
illustrated than on the turn into the 1980's.
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James Lawton: Ignore the hype, Haye v Valuev was an insult to boxing
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Give David Haye his large pot of gold and even throw in an award for superior
opportunism.
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James Lawton: Refs must be held to account
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
It is now a no-brainer that Sir Alex Ferguson will never accept the futility
of criticising referees. However, on Sunday at least he remembered not to
cross the line that makes prosecution by the FA inevitable.
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James Lawton: Respect for Benitez slipping away
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
You may believe that savaging Rafa Benitez has become an issue for the League
against Cruel Sports but sometimes it is too easy to get these things out of
perspective. We are, after all, talking about someone who will benefit by
roughly £20m if he should lose his job.
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James Lawton: Yeung at City heart
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Carson Yeung may be prove an unnmitigated disaster as the new owner of
Birmingham City and it certainly cannot be reassuring for incumbent manager
Alex McLeish to see Steve McManaman attached so closely to his shoulder.
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James Lawton: The agony and ecstasy of Andre Agassi's life less ordinary
Saturday, 31 October 2009
His former lover, Barbra Streisand, sent him flowers and called him her Zen
Buddha, but that was when Andre Agassi was a young and apparently
uncomplicated god of sport.
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James Lawton: FA have to get tough on Ferguson
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
What are we going to do with Sir Alex Ferguson? No, let's be more precise.
What is football, and what passes for its authority, going to do?
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James Lawton: Rafa the one man band out of tune
Thursday, 22 October 2009
If there was any mystery to the question now being asked in open panic on
Merseyside, the situation might not seem quite so hopeless. Unfortunately
there isn't.
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James Lawton: Slimline Reid must weight and see
Friday, 9 October 2009
Maybe, just maybe it will be different in the play-offs, especially seeded
play-offs when a touch of skill, something a little different, is plainly
more at the disposal of Andy Reid than any of the worthy yeoman currently
barring his return to an over-achieving Republic of Ireland team.
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James Lawton: Fergie beyond the pale
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Few, if any, football men have more reason than Sir Alex Ferguson to believe
that they have won the right to make their own rules.
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James Lawton: Horses like Sea the Stars will always shine brightly
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
What is it about a horse, especially one like Sea The Stars?
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James Lawton: Classy Souness hitting the right notes
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
It has long been a belief here that in the matter of television football
analysis Graeme Souness is in a class of his own.
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James Lawton: Roy Keane to make a crisis out of drama
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
The trouble with owning an extreme nature is that you always need to pack a
parachute; you can fly high, but some of the landings are hell. Certainly in
football it is hard to imagine a more draining descent than the one
currently occupying Roy Keane.
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James Lawton: Chiefs driving F1 into the dirt
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
You have to wonder if there are any limits now. If is possible to employ men
you vetted, and who carry your name, who go on to rig a race, strategically
smash a car into a barrier, risk lives and damnation, and yet you survive,
receive a green light to continue unscathed in something ever more loosely
described as sport, surely it has to be asked what is next on the agenda?
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James Lawton: Accepting defeat as great imposter is Sir Bobby’s legacy
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Football, as we have heard in Westminster Abbey, where the life of Bobby Moore
was saluted, in the Catholic Church of Chorlton-cum-Hardy where Sir Matt
Busby worshipped, and yesterday in the glorious setting of Durham Cathedral
where Sir Bobby Robson was remembered, is capable of the finest words of
farewell to its greatest heroes.
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James Lawton: Adebayor’s run out of excuses and must learn
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
If Emmanuel Adebayor had committed murder, rather than merely a grievous
assault on the idea that some millionaire footballers have any idea of their
duty, you might think he was angling for a plea of diminished responsibility.
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James Lawton: The Cap continues to fit for Beckham
Friday, 11 September 2009
You might call it the last mystery of Fabio Capello, the piece of his English
jigsaw that doesn't quite fit. It is the fact that he refuses so obdurately
to remove the last of the international lustre of Goldenballs.
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James Lawton: Thierry Henry is a class act - even when he is complaining
Tuesday, 8 September 2009
Thierry Henry's rebellion against the somewhat unorthodox coach Raymond
Domenech, who is said in some of the less reverent corners of the dressing
room to be also known as Le Crackpot, reminds us that whatever else the
French may lack it is not style.
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