LEE PAYNE
An aspiring writer on sport, music, history and more
recent posts
- If you’re going to win an Ashes Test, you need to get more than 200 on the board
- England are once again the laughing stock of world cricket
- Something made me laugh at Lincoln Cathedral
- AI vs Human Writing
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LEE PAYNE on a 2006 song about one night stands.
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LEE PAYNE explains how he thinks England could regain the Ashes down under in 2021-22.
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LEE PAYNE on watching cricket in Manchester and why the game doesn’t need reinventing.
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A guide to the 2019 cricket World Cup, which is being held in England and Wales.
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It’s been one year since the release of the sixth Arctic Monkeys album. Here’s why I love it so much.
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This is a break from the norm for this blog. I’ve been spending a few days in Durham. While Norwich City do in fact play away at Newcastle this weekend (about 18 miles away) my visit is unrelated. I had a week off work coming up, did not want to be at home crawling up…
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Last night, England played a friendly against Norway. The official attendance for the match at the 90,000 capacity Wembley Stadium was 40,181 – the smallest crowd to have seen the men’s national team at the ground since it was rebuilt. There are a number of explanations for the poor turnout – expensive tickets, families unwilling or…