By Lindsay Ash WHEN you settle down to watch the FA Cup this year, whether the early rounds or indeed the final itself, one or two will remember great games and moments from the past in this, the greatest of all cup competitions. There have been so many: Ronnie Radford’s oft-played goal against Newcastle, Trautmann […]
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Who decides what’s offensive? The humourless minority in the shadows… you play by their rules or face the consequences
By Lindsay Ash BEFORE you start reading this column I think it is only fair to say that it “contains language and attitudes from a different era and may cause offence … to idiots”. I am sure you have all heard or seen this on your television sets (OK, maybe I added the idiots bit.) […]
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The story of Bert Trautmann goes beyond football and becomesa part of post-war reconciliation
By Lindsay Ash RECENTLY I wrote a piece on the FA Cup and I mentioned a man named Bert Trautmann. Now, being a football aficionado, I presumed that everyone knew of this historical figure who was the custodian of the Manchester City net and had a dodgy neck – but apparently not, as several people […]
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It was one of the biggest upsets ever when Ashe beat Connors – and I was at Wimbledon to see it
By Lindsay Ash THERE is a sign that hangs above the entrance to Centre Court at Wimbledon, or the All England Club to give it the correct title. It’s the words of Kipling and says: “If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same.” The words came back […]
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'Hello 2025 – whatever happens it won’t be boring with Trump, Farage and Labour around…'
By Lindsay Ash WELL, here we are then… Hello 2025 and in the words of Tony Blair’s election song, “things can only get better” because, with the various conflicts taking place across the globe, one would struggle to disagree with those sentiments. Much of whether it does or not will depend on the new President […]
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Nowadays, it seems we are now entitled to say what we like…as long as the left approve of it
By Lindsay Ash There’s a wonderful exchange in Blackadder Goes Forth between General Melchett and Captain Darling that goes like this: Captain Darling: So you see, Blackadder, Field Marshal Haig is most anxious to eliminate all these German spies. General Melchett: Filthy Hun weasels, fighting their dirty underhand war. Captain Darling: And fortunately one of […]
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Just like Ricky Hatton, boxer Randolph Turpin ‘captured the public’s affection’
By Lindsay Ash IT’S strange how the death of a stranger can affect people. We saw it with the recent death of Ricky Hatton. The explanation is a fairly simple one; they have in some ways touched our lives and therefore our emotions. The sport of boxing has done that more than most over the […]
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Junior stars bring the spark for Jersey Table Tennis
FOLLOWING an action-packed weekend for Jersey’s table tennis stars, head coach Miguel Freitas was glowing with praise for the “magnificent” performance of his young stars. The JTTA competed in both the Channel Island Championships and the inter-insular contest in Guernsey over the weekend, with the latter going the way of the Sarnians. Despite the hosts […]
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Jersey needs to have its own stake in AI – even if it’s only in providing a regulatory service
By Lindsay Ash AI has become one of the new buzz words of our age or I suppose buzz letters if I am being accurate. Before I start, in order to spare the JEP letters from Angry of Green St, I realise that what I am about to write confuses AI with all sorts of […]
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Things have now become more difficult due to the empowerment of children from an early age
By Lindsay Ash SOMEONE once said that “teachers are well overpaid as educators and massively underpaid as child carers”, and I thought of that quote when I read that a recent survey stated that two out of five teachers in the UK said they had been attacked in schools. We also had something similar suggested […]
