LEE PAYNE
An aspiring writer on sport, music, history and more
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Tag: world
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Happy new year. Or is it? This week, I want to talk about the Blackpool Tower ‘fire’, darts star Luke Littler and a book I recommend.
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Football and cricket are my two favourite sports, but seeing as Dean Smith’s tactics are continuing to bore everyone at Carrow Road and a World Cup built by slaves is about to kick off in the desert it’s hard to get excited about the former at the moment. So cricket it is. Indeed, cricket is…
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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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LEE PAYNE on watching cricket in Manchester and why the game doesn’t need reinventing.
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England won the 2019 Cricket World Cup after the greatest match in the history of the sport.
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LEE PAYNE explains why he believes cricket is better than football as England go for the World Cup.
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LEE PAYNE takes a look back at the first stage of the Cricket World Cup.
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A guide to the 2019 cricket World Cup, which is being held in England and Wales.
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I know I shouldn’t. I know I shouldn’t rise to it. I know they are on the wind up. Looking for a reaction. Reeling me in. But I just can’t help it. I’m referring to people on Twitter who reply to any – and I mean any – post about women’s sport with the words…
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England aren’t about to win Euro 2016, but their comeback win against the world champions is something to get excited about.
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