Tim Worstall

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JPR

March 9th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Now, look, imagine this. You’re turning out for some village third rugby team. You’re crap, you know it, you’re there for a wander around in the mud and a few pints afterwards. I have been known to play this sort of rugby myself it being the level and standard to which I am suited.
You turn [...]

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Not entirely convinced here

January 29th, 2010 · 5 Comments

A world away from home Andy Murray keeps hopes of a nation at arm’s length
Australian Open finalist plays down the pressure of a chance to be the first British man to win a Grand Slam in 74 years
Maybe it’s me that’s got it wrong. I thought there were four major tournaments, each of which can [...]

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Anyone know where?

January 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments

England, at training camp in the Algarve,
Would be fun to pop down if I knew where to pop to……

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Bleedin’ awful game, weren’t it?

November 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Yech.
We’re gonna get creamed by Dan Carter’s boys.

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Nice

June 27th, 2009 · No Comments

I like this idea:
Instead of lighting an Olympic flame, the Island Games have a water ceremony. Each team brings a flask of water from its island’s shores and pours it into a central fountain, which runs for the duration of the Games.

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To the Irish

March 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

Well done, cracking match, you deserved it.
However, d’ye think you could have let this bloke write his article before you got him drunk rather than after?

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Which prejudice?

November 9th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Which way should it break?
A black man or a white woman?
Umm, didn’t we just see the Americans trying this question out?

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Hoo, Boy….

September 18th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Football Association laws dictate that from this season, the results of matches between children aged seven and eight must not be published, league tables must not be kept and prizes must not be given out.
Some local associations have chosen to extend the regulations even further, it [...]

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The Origins of Baseball

September 12th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Tee hee.

Historians in Surrey have documentary proof that the game was being played in the UK before America.
A diary entry which talks about a game played in Guildford, Surrey in 1755 has been verified as authentic by the Surrey History Centre.
The handwritten entry was discovered in the diary of [...]

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Shouldn’t laugh

September 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

But I did, I’m sorry, I’m a very bad boy.

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That global market in talent

August 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Polly keeps telling us that there really isn’t a global market in talent. That people here in the UK just use that as an explanation for widening inequality, an explanation that simply isn’t true.

Britain risks losing its top coaches to rival countries keen to restore their national pride in London 2012, Olympic chiefs gave warning [...]

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On not getting the point

August 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Of course, lottery funding does not come from general taxation and is not parcelled out in Whitehall. The reason it has been effective in sport is that resources were marshalled accurately.

Resources were marshalled accurately because they were not parcelled out in Whitehall.

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Those Olympics results in full

August 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment

…now we are in the freakish position of being two places above the convicts in the medals table…

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Eh?

August 17th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Olympics? Ancient Rome?

In the Olympics in Ancient Rome, the powerfully built swimmers (nude, like all the sportsmen, so the crowds could better appreciate the mastery of the human body) swam in the rolling currents of the Tiber.

Is it me or Kate Rew that’s had a brain spasm over the Greeks and Olympia?

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Weird fact of the day

August 16th, 2008 · 4 Comments

High school cheerleading accounted for 65.1 percent of all catastrophic sports injuries among high school females over the past 25 years.

I’m assuming that getting pregnant by the quarterback is being defined here as a catastrophic injury….

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Start of the football season

August 16th, 2008 · No Comments

"You shouldn’t make a man pick between his woman and his football team. I don’t care who she is but he is better off without her."

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Olympic Diving

August 13th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Well, yes:

But hang on a minute. You’re eighth in the world at a sport! Admittedly, a slightly weird sport, but eighth! That’s brilliant! I’m not eighth in the world at anything.

But, umm, as far as I can work out, there’s only 8 (teams of) competitors in the synchronised diving at the Olympics.

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Olympic Glory

August 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments

George asks us for favourite moments in Olympic history.
I offer you John Stephen Akwhari.

Not long after the start of the marathon at the Mexico Olympics, Akhwari fell down and was badly injured, because he was not used to the climate of Central America. The other runners passed him one after another, and his chance of [...]

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Well Done Pompey

August 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

This rather surprises really, that Portsmouth fans are considered the ugliest in the Premiership.

According to research by Sky HD, the south coast club have the least attractive fans in English football’s top flight – but Liverpool have at last landed a domestic title, being judged by scouts from model [...]

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Number Crunching

July 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

From the time trial on stage 4, the public can view Millar’s file, which showed that he produced a power output of approximately 5.4 watts per kg. He placed third on the stage. This power is impressive but certainly doesn’t break any physiological records; it’s about what you’d expect from a clean rider in peak [...]

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