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Alright so the missus is having a moan about the footy being on the telly, so you get your coat and sort yourself out with a couple of pints, a bag of pork scratchings and a nice comfy seat in front of the ‘Big Screen’ at the pub. You might even get your mates down but to be honest you don’t care either way as long as you get to see the game. But does it ever cross your mind where it came from? We may all assume that it’s case of setting up an account with Sky and Bob’s your uncle?

Well apparently not and the FA are clamping down on dodgy companies taking their live games and televising them …

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Roger Federer is hoping to better his recent spate of bad luck with the help of a new coach. Following the opening of the Estoril Open, the €370,000 ATP International Series event which is played on clay courts in Portugal. He will be taking a trial with 55 year-old Spaniard Jose Higueras. He has an impressive track record having pushed the likes of Pete Sampras, Jim Courier and Michael Chang to success. Higueras has been working with the world number one for the last few days and Federer said:

"I’ve been thinking for a long time about a coach who would be the right guy. There are not too many of them out there. Once I had Jose in my mind, …

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By a lot of accounts, Norway is a great place to live. It has a hugely successful welfare system, it was rated the most peaceful country in the world by Global Peace Index and it seems to produce a disproportionally high number of top class poker pros: at the final of the EPT goes into Day 3, the railbirds at Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort are looking at a Norwegian 1-2-3-4.

123 players survived Day 2 but in the mini-league of players from the ‘land of the midnight sun’, the man with the most daylight between him and his rivals is Oyvind Riisem, who has amassed 441,400.

Among the relatively chip-starved is tubby ex-footballer Tomas Brolin, with 62,600, but one with …

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie certainly don’t do things in the same way as everyone else that’s for sure. We’re not complaining we love to read stories about them letting their kids eat junk food etc. Because ultimately that’s the only thing we’re going to have in common with Hollywood’s golden pair.

They don’t have faddy diets set out for their kids like we would imagine certain celebs to. We can totally imagine that Madonna doesn’t let her kids eat sugar or some such rubbish. Or that Gwyneth Paltrow only allows vegan stuff (We don’t know any of this for a fact, but just humour us we’re trying to use our imagination!)

The parents of the rainbow family are allowed to eat …

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With Manchester United having practically sewn up the Premier League domestic focus shifts to the top of the Championship where five sides have genuine claims of automatic promotion.

The supporters of Stoke City, West Brom, Bristol City, Hull and Watford can still let their imaginations run wild with dreams of reaching the promised land.

Let us remember these aren´t fair weather supporters who latch onto fashionable Premier sides just because they are successful. I don´t remember Stamford Bridge being full in the days of Kerry Dixon.

No. These are supporters who have stuck by their club through thin and even thinner times and it will come to pass that some of them will have their unrequited faith rewarded over the next few weeks.

Nowhere …

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Emile Heskey must have thought his days of scoring vital goals in the Premier League title race were long gone. Chelsea’s defenders obviously thought the same – because last night at Stamford Bridge they gave Heskey acres of room to score a late, late equaliser.

Who’d have thought it? A blundering striker who on his day – usually the third Tuesday every October – can look like a world-class centre-forward but, more than not, resembles the back half of a pantomime horse, has pretty much wrecked Chelsea’s title hopes.

Monday night at Stamford Bridge, 91 minutes on the clock, Chelsea hanging on to a 1-0 lead. Jason Koumas swings over a delicious cross, Heskey bangs it home at the far post. Cue …

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