conclusion of the anthem. This marked the start of the handshakes between the players to show their sportsman’s spirit. The players already warmed up by the crowd’s cheering took some pre-match strides to loosen up their muscles. The home team‚ winning the toss‚ chose to start of the proceedings of the match. As the referee’s whistle sounded‚ the game started with a light touch to the ball by the striker to the player close-in and then the long pass to the defender at the back started the battle
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I was getting ready for school when I remembered that Manchester United would be coming to Parkhead to take on Celtic in the Champions’ League group stage. My excitement grew immediately. I pondered for a second realizing that if Celtic won this game they would be through to the last sixteen‚ an achievement no other Scottish club had achieved for years. Maybe this could be our year‚ I thought. The cold blistering air spiked deep into my lungs from the moment I stepped out from my house. I gazed
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On November 18‚ 2013 there was a football match in the under than 15 school boy football league the game was played at the Jonathan grant high school oval. It was a match against the golden lions of Jonathan grant high and Spanish town high. This was a well anticipated match as fans turn out in their colors to support their teams. There were people in blue supporting the golden lions and some in yellow supporting Spanish town high. Match time was 12:30pm. The referees went out on the field
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Cameran Highlands is accessible by road. Cameran Highlands is about a 3 hours drive either from KL or Penang Its strategic location makes it a favourite weekened escape for cityfolk/ city-dwellers from all over the coutry. It is a popular haunt for both local and foreign tourists to let their hair down. For those who are faint-heated the ride along the steep‚ narrow roads can be quite an unnerving experience as there are numerous hairpin bends along the route from Simpang Pulai. After about a
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As the Premier League returns after highly enjoyable European fixtures‚ we look at Chelsea’s away game at Sunderland. The game started with both teams fielding strong sides‚ with Chelsea including the creative trio of Mata‚ H azard and Oscar after recent weeks apart. The Sunderland team‚ reeling from the loss of Martin O’Neill‚ fielded a similarly strong side‚ with the exception of Conor Wickham who surprisingly started ahead of recent signing Danny Graham‚ perhaps a hint of the changes Di Canio
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In organized sports‚ match fixing‚ race fixing or sports fixing occurs as a match is played to a completely or partially pre-determined result‚ violating the rules of the game and often the law. Where the sporting competition in question is a race then the incident is referred to as race fixing. Games that are deliberately lost are sometimes called thrown games. When a team intentionally loses a game‚ or does not score as high as it can‚ to obtain a perceived future competitive advantage (for instance
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Anne Bishop bases her story‚ “Match Girl‚ off of Hans Christian Andersen’s “Little Match Girl”‚ but she adds a disturbing twist. Bishop uses so much torture and violence that as a reader you want no more. “Little Match Girl” was a story based on an innocent little girl having to face the cold heart of society. On the other hand‚ “Match Girl” was a story based on a young girl that has to face a disgusting and cruel world. The misery and cruelty that Bishop adds to her story is too much for this
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“The Cricket Match” Samuel Selvon’s short story‚ “The Cricket Match” explores the subtle racial tensions amongst West Indian immigrants living in England whilst working with English counterparts. Selvon sets his narrative in a tyre factory in Chiswick‚ England. Most likely‚ the timeline in which this story occurs is somewhere in the mid 1950’s when England were still colonists of most of the English speaking Caribbean islands. The main idea behind Selvon’s tale lies with Algernon the protagonist
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team is Australia‚[1] followed by One Day International cricket‚ whose last World Cup was also won by Australia; the tournament was televised in over 200 countries to a viewing audience estimated at more than two billion viewers.[2][3] A cricket match is contested by two teams‚ usually of eleven players each[4] and is played on a grass field in the centre of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards (20 m) long called a pitch. A wicket‚ usually made of wood‚ is placed at each end of the pitch and
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This article is about the sport. For the insect‚ see Cricket (insect). For other uses‚ see Cricket (disambiguation). "Cricketer" redirects here. For other uses‚ see Cricketer (disambiguation). Cricket A bowler bowling to a batsman. The paler strip is the cricket pitch. The two sets of three wooden stumps on the pitch are the wickets. The two white lines are the creases. Highest governing body International Cricket Council First played 18th century (modern) Characteristics Team members
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