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Hands up who’s surprised by this?
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Hands up who’s surprised by this?
Well, at least someone’s finally been honest about it, I suppose.[…]

EWING SAID
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“EWING SAID“:
‘Ewing said the game was designed to undermine the theory there was some shadowy plot behind the assassination: “We believe passionately there was no conspiracy.”‘[…]

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Are ACADEMIC CONFERENCES the SPORT of THOUGHT
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Are ACADEMIC CONFERENCES the SPORT of THOUGHT?
(viz CONTENT vs STYLE who will WIN??)
i. see you get up and say stuff and (if you don’t overrun yr time hem hem) then field clever questions ii. and some ppl carefully write every word up beforehan[…]

Football simulations have been done to death.
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Football simulations have been done to death. Be you a playing type of the FIFA Soccer or Pro Evo schools, or management boors wrapped up in Championship Manager. But there is one area of football simulation which has been sorely neglected. That of r[…]

Put it on our tab
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Put it on our tab
The spate of clubs going into some form of adminsitration recently has provided a fascinating look at the ways in which clubs operate through looking at who they owed money to. Hull achieved some notoriety by owing over ‘6000 […]

End of an era/PCGM!!!
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End of an era/PCGM!!!
I was rather shocked at seeing this story on ceefax last night. How can you take the beef out of bovril???? That just makes it marmite, shurely??? Although I reckon if I go out to tesco tonight and buy up all their PROPER bovr[…]

A FRIEND OF FT WRITES:
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A FRIEND OF FT WRITES:
“Some of you may have missed this unbeatable 1-2 of stories (persevere if you find the first story boring)
FIRST STORY (Monday 15th November)
SECOND STORY (Thursday 18th November)”
I’m closer to ‘unbear[…]

That guitarist is defensively naive…
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That guitarist is defensively naive…
Have you ever wondered why commentary on African football is like criticism of soul music? Probably not, but if you want to find out, go to Everything They Say About Soul Is Wrong. It’s mostly about mu[…]

I don’t remember much about the year 1984
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I don’t remember much about the year 1984. Apart from that bloody Eurythmics song. I blame this.
It’s been updated (20th anniversary) and remains as notoriously difficult as memory serves. It’s a standard text adventure (with a few[…]

Belgium Fannydangle
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Belgium Fannydangle[…]

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