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Grassroots footballers in Manchester awaiting the fate of the Trafford Soccer Dome

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The deadline is approaching to decide the future of a scruffy but well-used sports centre, the closure of which could leave hundreds of children without football pitches to play on

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Unnecessary use of change shirts is becoming increasingly absurd

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From Newcastle wearing light blue at Old Trafford to Chelsea in “teal” at Southampton, clubs are ever more desperate to promote their short-lived products

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Badge of the week ~ 4.25 Sports Club, North Korea

425badge180The main task of North Korea’s junior minister for re-information is to refute everything ever said by French intellectuals. One year he did a special on Jean-Paul Sartre and began with Sartre’s assertion that “Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do”. 

As it was a drowsy Friday afternoon, the junior minister simply made a quick call and renamed his local football team 4.25 Sports Club.

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Badge of the week ~ Oxford City

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The paddling cow was a cow that escaped in Oxford in 1425 while being driven to market. The procedure was in those days for the first person on the scene of the mishap or offence to raise the hue and cry. If they failed to do so, they would be considered by the sheriff to be the cause of the incident. The cowherd on this occasion raised the hue, but failed to raise the cry. He would normally have raised them both at the same time but, after he had raised the hue, he got into a conversation with a chandler about a problem he was having getting wax out of a new rug and completely forgot about the cry.

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Badge of the week ~ Pandan XIV, Brunei

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For a long time in the nation of Brunei, short trousers imported from the west for sporting or leisure purposes were, owing to an inconsistency of measurements between Europe and south-east Asia, significantly smaller than anticipated. The players of Pandan were not the only ones to struggle with their new kit but, instead of sending them right back to the supplier like everyone else, Pandan’s first chairman instructed his players to wear them anyway. 

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