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1st April 2019
Grand National 2019. Will it be a vintage year? Ante-post preview, part 2
The field for the 2019 running of the Grand National is shaping up and the weights have changed since...
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27th February 2019
Banks of England. Pick that one out!
How do you go about conveying to the two thirds of the UK population not born at the time,...
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12th December 2018
Gordon Taylor. The case for the PFA boss, by Paul Merson
In the early 1980’s I watched Gordon Taylor at work. He arrived at Boothferry Park, then home to Hull...
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15th May 2017
VG Tips members in the money as the old 1-2 strikes at Ascot. Twice!
To predict one horse to finish in the first four of a 24 runner handicap is an achievement. To...
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1st February 2015
Cheltenham Festival Preview – Gordon Elliott: “I came from nothing.”
If you see Gordon Elliott at the door of an Irish racecourse you might at first sight think he...
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5th November 2014
Footballers lose the shirt off their backs… to ex-wives, bookies and the Inland Revenue
I confess I thought David James was meant to be one of the clever ones. Footballers that is. Wasn’t...
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15th May 2014
FA Cup Final preview, part 1. To Hull and back
I shall set the scene. February 1982. I am at Boothferry Park, home of Hull City. I am there...
