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How I hate the Beautiful Game! I hate its cry-baby players and its gruff, joyless managers, its blokish supporters and its sinister owners, its whistle-peeping referees and its chippy little linesmen, its excitable commentators and - perhaps most of all - its unpluggable 'analysts.'

~Craig Brown

Topics: Analyst Beautiful Game Hate How Little Managers Most Owners Perhaps Players Sinister Supporters

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Like Christians, Soccerians argue that you should not judge the essence of their faith by the loopy activities of its followers. But the Beautiful Game is in fact quite the opposite. It is badly designed and riddled with flaws.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Activities Argue Badly Beautiful Christians Designed Essence Fact Faith Flaws Followers Game In Fact Judge Like Opposite Quite Riddled Should You

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Personally, I belong to the speedy school of golf. If it were left up to me, I would introduce a new rule that said every golf ball has to stay in motion from the moment it leaves the tee to the moment it plops into the hole, thus obliging each player to run along after his ball and give it another whack before it stops rolling.

~Craig Brown

Topics: After Along Another Ball Before Belong Each Every Give Golf Golf Ball His Hole Introduce Leaves Left Me Moment Motion New Personally Player Rolling Rule Run Said School Stay Stops Tee Thus Up Were Whack Would

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It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from the endless round of looking for this, that and the other.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Away Bothers Endless Everyday Gets Golf Great House Looking Me Other Out Round Strikes Virtue You

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Looking back, some of the happiest moments of my childhood were spent with my arm in packets of breakfast cereal, rootling around for a free gift.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Arm Around Back Breakfast Cereal Childhood Free Gift Happiest Looking Looking Back Moments Some Spent Were

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Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Away Children Frightened Grown-Ups Happy Next Only Perfectly Sit Spiders Who

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Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Alan Blazer Complete Confidence Last May Worn

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Like the periwig and the bowler hat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who persist in wearing it do so with a smattering of self-consciousness, a touch of obstinacy, even a pinch of camp.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Blazer Bowler Camp Even Hat Like Obstinacy Out Persist Pinch Self-Consciousness Those Touch Way Wearing Who

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In its heyday, the blazer had come to symbolise a kind of conventional decency. Yacht club commodores and school bursars wore blazers. People who played bowls wore blazers.

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Topics: Blazer Bowls Club Come Conventional Decency Had Kind People Played School Who Wore Yacht

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The first thing I hear when I wake up is the sea, which is so close to our house that its reflections from the sun dapple our bedroom ceiling.

~Craig Brown

Topics: Bedroom Ceiling Close First First Thing Hear House Our Reflections Sea Sun The First Thing Thing Up Wake Wake Up Which

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Critic

Born: May 23rd, 1957

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