Jim White

I caught a re-run wildlife documentary on the television yesterday. It was about a bunch of monitor lizards in Indonesia who were suddenly alerted to the possibility of breakfast by a buffalo straying right into their territory. It was a haughty beast, confident in its scale, seemingly certain it was...More

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Arsene Wenger doesn't do gracious. Unlike most modern managers, when things don't go according to plan, the Frenchman does not confine himself to railing against referees. There is no conspiracy of silence for Wenger, no honour amongst thieves. He is always happy to lay the blame for dropped points at...More

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Those involved in the arts might deride it, but football remains the country's most reliable source of drama.  It has more tensions, more confrontations, more personal spats than a month-long festival of Shakespeare. A sport that is, at its basics, all about conflict has within its scope all sorts of...More

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Despite the noise he made, this was not Carlos Tevez's week. That accolade belongs elsewhere. Sure, if nothing else, the Argentine's latest observation about Gary Neville should have ensured golf ball sales go up in Manchester. That the United stalwart is "a moron and a shoe licker" is perhaps not...More

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I have an unusual and increasingly rare distinction: I have seen Manchester City win a major trophy in the flesh. There can't be many of us left. Certainly there will be no-one under early middle age. After all, as the banner hanging in the Stretford End tauntingly reminds the world, it was 34 years...More

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Let us for a moment pause for thought at the predicament of the poor folk at Sky Sports News. There they are all set up for this, their whole working calendar focussed on what should be a highlight of their reporting year. They have that bloke with the five mobiles,...More

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Back in 2005, when the Glazer family's takeover of Manchester United was marked by supporters wearing black to the Cup final, some of the more militant fan elements spoke about how the Florida dynasty were a bunch of thieves, stealing from the Reds' heritage. It is hard, reading the latest...More

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 Roberto Mancini's first significant act as manager of Manchester City is hardly going to make a dent in that £90 million working loss the club posted last season. £140,000 a week for a veteran deemed too old for the Premier League five seasons ago is not exactly going to help...More

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Phil Gartside, the Bolton Wanderers chairman, must have had an injection of brain cells for Christmas. But a month before the festive season, there he was suggesting to the rest of his Premier League colleagues that their competition become a closed shop (with Bolton included in the attic party before...More

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