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Mark Solomons

Mark Solomons

The Guardian

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Lineker / The fall of Match of the Day

Match of the Day is looking for a new presenter now that Gary Lineker is leaving after 25 years. The truth is, it really doesn’t matter who replaces...

20.11.2024 9

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Mark Solomons

Alex Ferguson was brilliant, but did he deserve £2m a year?

Manchester United have axed Sir Alex Ferguson’s contract as an ‘ambassador’ for the club, and it is not clear whether the most shocking part of...

16.10.2024 20

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Euro 2024 was a new low for football punditry

Football pundits are supposed to be experts. More often than not, though, they are just a motley collection of former footballers stealing a living. ...

15.07.2024 4

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The Beatles / What their critics don’t get

Not everyone likes The Beatles. That said, trashing cultural icons is a modern phenomenon amplified by social media and done, largely, to attract...

22.04.2024 50

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Fowl play / Confessions of an egg snatcher

April is nesting season and with it comes egg collectors, an illegal band of very specialised and, in some ways, very British of criminals. Many would...

10.04.2024 10

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Tottenham has betrayed its fans

For as long as anyone can remember, Tottenham Hotspur has offered half price season tickets for pensioners. No longer. This has been scrapped from...

11.03.2024 10

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Cinema / In praise of long films

Late last year, Martin Scorsese’s epic Killers of the Flower Moon switched from cinema to living room on the Apple TV streaming service. An...

28.02.2024 10

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Go whistle / Football doesn’t need a blue card

Football is becoming a testing ground for every madcap idea the supposed guardians of the sport can come up with. The latest is the blue card, a...

12.02.2024 7

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Is this the worst pop song ever recorded?

On a cold January night 39 years ago in Los Angeles, 46 of the world’s biggest egos gathered together to record a song that was, according to...

29.01.2024 30

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