LEE PAYNE
An aspiring writer on sport, music, history and more
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A few thoughts on Norwich City 0-3 Liverpool, Norwich’s first game of the Premier League season. It’s good to be back The last time I, and most of the others at the ground today, had been inside Carrow Road was on 27th February last year. Norwich beat Leicester 1-0 with a driven half-volley from left…
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No one is going to be the slightest bit interested in reading about the Euro 2020 final, so I’m not going to write about it. Here’s the BBC match report if you insist. Italy, it’s been great having you back on the major tournament stage. You were missed when you didn’t qualify for the 2018…
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I am prone to spells where I feel out of control and as if I’m ‘going mad’. I’ll try not to bore you – this is about the benefits I believe there are to be had in going back to where you felt happiest and safest – but I need to give you some background…
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Going to the football was the thing me and my dad did together. Dad was 48 when I was born. He had the son he had always wanted – someone to kick a ball around with and watch the match with him. Yet I was a latecomer to football, and to his obsession with Norwich…
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I found this video on YouTube recently. Uploaded by madmusician91, who must take all the credit for it, the video shows the last few minutes of Channel 4’s excellent live coverage of cricket: England had just won the Ashes for the first time in 18 years, in what is regarded as the greatest Test series…
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