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Michael Polanyi and the best ever goal.

"There is no real substitute for a ball struck squarely and firmly". So says Billy Bragg in the song A Lover Sings, and anyon...

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Sola Scriptura, Sport and the Protestant ideal-type

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Game Over: Sport Will Destroy Itself

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