IS it just me or does it seem a little bit ironic that the nation that has never really embraced football (or ‘soccer’ as US prosecutors referred to it this week) has been the one to investigate and expose corruption within the sport? The arrest of seven high-ranking FIFA officials brought out into the open […]
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A TRIP to York Races is one of the great pleasures of the Yorkshire sporting calendar. Last week’s first meeting of the year, the Dante, is always popular and attracts high quality fields, but not the overwhelming crowds of the Ebor Festival in August. Surveying the carnage across the champagne lawn at the end of
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WHEN Julian Pitts asked me to host an Election Breakfast that Begbies Traynor were holding the morning after the vote, I initially wondered whether we would have much to talk about. Several weeks out from the election, even several hours from it, all the pollsters and media and even politicians were predicting a hung parliament.
DID you watch the Tour de Yorkshire last weekend? Race organisers Welcome to Yorkshire were again fortunate with the weather. Last July they had cracking weather for the Tour de France Grand Depart. The chances of the skies being blue for a bank holiday weekend at the start of May were altogether lower. But Welcome
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