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James Lawton
Enough joking, it's time to get serious about diving
The Football Association video reviewers must surely have Monday as a double-shower day, the second one coming immediately after the kind of shift which yesterday included analysis of allegations that Robin van Persie delivered an utterly gratuitous cheap shot to Yohan Cabaye and Robert Huth stamped on Luis Suarez.
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James Lawton: Credit Di Matteo for trying to give Chelsea a conscience
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Roberto Di Matteo some time ago entrenched his position in the history of Chelsea but, if we thought his achievements were astonishing last spring, we now have reason to speculate on the final scale of his legacy.
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James Lawton: Manchester United in crisis? What crisis?
Monday, 8 October 2012
Howard Webb and his team of World Cup final officials were roughly a millimetre away from still another goal-line controversy but if there is any lingering uncertainty about the denial of the goal Demba Ba claimed when David de Gea scooped away his header, another debate is surely stone dead.
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From 12 Ryder Cup heroes, Ian Poulter stands alone as Seve Ballesteros' successor
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
We may never see again quite the memorial to one sporting life which was literally written in the sky here as 12 European golfers created something inevitably to be known as the Miracle of Medinah.
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James Lawton: Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell fall short against US onslaught
Saturday, 29 September 2012
Graeme McDowell was the hero of Europe's last great triumph and for a moment yesterday it seemed that he had started here under a blue and steely American sky pretty much as he had finished in the mist and the chill of a Welsh valley two years ago.
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James Lawton: Only lawyers stand to win in John Terry affair
Saturday, 29 September 2012
There may be some more rich pickings for a legal brain or two – perhaps even up to the level of Premier League wages – but it is hard to believe that anyone else will gain much advantage as the John Terry affair lurches on.
James Lawton: Tiger Woods versus Rory McIlroy could be Ryder Cup's biggest ever duel
Friday, 28 September 2012
This is not one of the world's greatest golf courses – certainly not Augusta National or Pebble Beach or St Andrews – but it is long, has been set up for a blaze of birdies to excite the American crowd to a high level of patriotism and here in the Fall it is hard to imagine a more beautiful piece of sporting landscape.
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James Lawton: Europe's Ryder Cup team must channel spirit of Seve
Thursday, 27 September 2012
It was inevitable – but not necessarily right – that the American high command should target Rory McIlroy here over these next few days.
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James Lawton: Tiger Woods' fall appears to have made him a team player at Ryder Cup
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
It really did sound like the first day of the rest of the Tiger's Ryder Cup life yesterday. The man who once said that he had a million reasons – all of them bearing the official stamp of the United States treasury – to prefer the hand-to-hand conflict of the tournament golf he had come to dominate so profoundly to the camaraderie of team sport, sounded rather more like the most earnest of cheerleaders.
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James Lawton: Magnificent Yaya TourοΏ½ can't carry Manchester City alone
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
News of the demise of Jose Mourinho and a ruined Real Madrid was always likely to prove premature but Manchester City may never forgive themselves for their contribution to last night's rehabilitation.
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James Lawton: Learn from the master Mancini and show faith in your team
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Is it just me or is Roberto Mancini's long and somewhat rambling tribute to the historic weight of Real Madrid getting just a shade obsequious before tonight's Champions League engagement at the Bernabeu?
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James Lawton: Villas-Boas finally up and running with Spurs
Monday, 17 September 2012
All's well that ends well seemed to be what Andre Villas Boas was saying in the euphoric body language that accompanied the second of Jermain Defoe's goals. Maybe he's right.
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James Lawton: If in this of all weeks we are obsessed by a handshake, the game really is up
Saturday, 15 September 2012
In the course of frantic discussions yesterday between officials of the world's richest football league, two of its managers and one player, who despite a talent that might be charitably described as mediocre is paid considerably more than a brilliant brain surgeon, you could easily have been dragged into a massive misapprehension.
Hillsborough: I doubted this day would come. But the families never gave up
Thursday, 13 September 2012
There was a time when you thought it would never go away, none of it – the raw anger that was locked into the families of the victims of Hillsborough and made it impossible for them to grieve in any natural way, the terrible lies and evasions and smearing of 96 innocent people and that appalling belief there would always be a condescending message from some defender of the establishment that it was time to move on.
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James Lawton: Andy Murray takes rightful place as true champion
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Andy Murray not only won his first Grand Slam title in the early hours of yesterday. He set the clock on Phase Two of a career which, despite evidence of the highest talent, had so frequently been threatened by a critical failure to move beyond his own deepest fear.
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James Lawton: Casual attitude to doping the most shocking aspect of allegations against Lance Armstrong
Thursday, 6 September 2012
You think you might just have seen and heard it all, the good and the bad and in the latter case this is maybe especially so if you happened to be in Seoul in 1988 when Ben Johnson, broken and yellow-eyed after first taking us to the stars, was unmasked as one of sport's ultimate cheats.
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James Lawton: Liverpool add sorry postscript to Michael Owen's career
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Glenn Hoddle once announced that he was not a natural goalscorer – shortly before the 18-year-old illuminated the 1998 World Cup with the strike of the tournament.Gérard Houllier insisted he take his place in a rotation system which also included Emile Heskey. As England manager, Kevin Keegan preferred Andy Cole.
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James Lawton: Oscar-losing performance was pathetic
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Sooner or later someone had to separate us from the slavish belief promulgated so hard these last few days. It is the one that says Paralympians are a separate and superior breed of sportsmen and women beyond any of the vices, including the conceits, of those who are able to compete with less conspicuous handicaps.
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James Lawton: Brendan Rodgers would love to have what ArsοΏ½ne Wenger's got at Arsenal
Monday, 3 September 2012
Who's fantasising now? Not, for some little time at least, the man who said he could step out of a crazy spiral of Premier League spending and announce himself a sure-fire contender one of these years.
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James Lawton: Sanity at Everton makes mockery of Premier League's craziest day
Saturday, 1 September 2012
If the start of the football season had been any more shambolic, if some of the deals – and most notably the one that took Andy Carroll from his Merseyside misadventure to West Ham and the embrace of his old manager Sam Allardyce – had produced a little more evidence of dwindling spending power and mounting desperation, it might have been launched in a pawn shop.
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James Lawton: Paralympic Games not just another Olympics
Wednesday, 29 August 2012
As the great overture to the Paralympic Games plays out in the Olympic Stadium which will always be remembered so fondly as the place that created, however briefly, a Camelot of sport, there is an insistent, relentless message.
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