LEE PAYNE
An aspiring writer on sport, music, history and more
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This is a post I’ve been planning to write for a few weeks. With the events of the last few days marking the end of the second Elizabethan age, I realised that it will be more poignant. I recently returned to the ‘retro shop’/garden centre that I had found a football magazine from 1964 in…
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England vs New Zealand3rd Test (of 3)Headingley, Leeds23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th June 2022Result: England (360 & 296-3) beat New Zealand (329 & 326) by 7 wicketsEngland win the series 3-0 It was only innate English pessimism that put any doubt in the ability of our re-energised Test team to knock off the 113 runs…
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You’ve had two number one albums. The first was the fastest selling debut album in British music history. You’ve won the Mercury Prize. You’ve headlined Glastonbury. Where do you go from here? Many would have been tempted to stick to the formula that had brought such huge success, releasing a rinse-and-repeat third album to please…
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