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BOOKMAKERS reckon there is a good chance that Britons will enjoy the warmest Christmas Day ever!
An article in The Guardian said that the previous high is believed to have been 16C in Teignmouth, Devon, last year.
Bookies Ladbrokes has shortened the odds of that being beaten from 16-1 to 8-1.
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OH dear! It was all going so well with the country and more importantly the national media behaving responsibly and not getting carried away with England’s progress in Euro 2012.
But now that the Three Lions have won their group to clinch a quarter-final tie against Italy, everybody seems to think that this England team is better than it really is.
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Football Diary
by Patrick O’Connor
THERE may not be much football being played at the moment in the run-up to the start of Euro 2012 but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been much activity.
Football purists will be delighted by the news that the game’s governing body in England, the Football Association, has decided that small-sided formats for certain age-groups will be mandatory from now on.
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Football Diary
by Patrick O’Connor
THE English political scene is currently awash with rows over bankers’ bonuses and tax-avoidance schemes for public servants.
Money certainly does make the world go around but there seems to be tiny chink of common sense appearing in professional football.
Football Diary – Don’t be fooled
THE British have a reputation for being efficient and well-organised but don’t be fooled – we can cock it up as well as the rest of the world.
Take the idiots who run our football, for the past few years they’ve been doing their best to devalue the FA Cup, once the most prestigious knock-out tournament in the world.