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Brian Viner: If only us Evertonians weren't in the mire too, we could sit back and enjoy Liverpool's plight
Saturday, 16 October 2010
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Brian Viner: Why every sports fixture is a gamble
Thursday, 14 October 2010
On the concourse outside Wembley Stadium on Tuesday evening, prior to England's footballers taking on 11 Montenegrins in a Euro 2012 qualifier, a gang of men in fluorescent pink bibs busied themselves picking up litter.
Brian Viner: The Ryder Cup made McDowell man of the moment. But is he really man of the year?
Saturday, 9 October 2010
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Brian Viner: Give me passers-by over satnav any day
Thursday, 7 October 2010
There are still surprisingly many professional wordsmiths – journalists, novelists, playwrights, screenwriters – who do not know an Apple Mac from a whisky mac or a Pacamac.
Brian Viner: War is best left out of sport – even when some say it's a matter of life and death
Saturday, 2 October 2010
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Brian Viner: The day I tried to butter up the Duke of Edinburgh
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Let me speak up for the Royal Family. I can tell you that the Windsors, having reportedly applied for and been refused a government heating grant, are commendably frugal in how they warm Buckingham Palace
Brian Viner: I never thought I'd side with Collymore, but he's right about Shearer on Match of the Day
Saturday, 25 September 2010
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Brian Viner: Oh, for the days of parlourmaids
Thursday, 23 September 2010
The enduring British fascination with life above and below stairs gets another stoking from Sunday, with ITV's transmission of Downton Abbey, a seven-part drama set in a grand country house just before the First World War and naturally starring, in the regrettable absence of Dame Judi, Dame Maggie Smith.
Brian Viner: Ken Bates' dilemma at the Last Supper
Thursday, 9 September 2010
On Tuesday I was in Monte Carlo, interviewing Ken Bates, the 78-year-old chairman of Leeds United and erstwhile owner of Chelsea, over a long lunch
Brian Viner: Lord of the Manor battling bureaucrats over a blot on the Ryder Cup landscape
Saturday, 4 September 2010
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Brian Viner: Sven for Villa? Maybe the fake sheikh was really on to something
Saturday, 14 August 2010
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Well read: When great literature is the best therapy
Saturday, 14 August 2010
Brian Viner drops in on a Get Into Reading session in Liverpool to find out about a revolutionary therapy.
Brian Viner: Are liberal parents just hypocrites?
Thursday, 12 August 2010
My older children – Elly, aged 17, and 15-year-old Joe – returned home tired and a bit whiffy on Monday after four days and nights camping at the Big Chill music festival in the grounds of Eastnor Castle, near Ledbury in Herefordshire
Brian Viner: Even for an Everton fan, Hodgson is not an easy man to dislike
Saturday, 7 August 2010
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Brian Viner: A list of bad books is incomplete without sport's many turkeys
Saturday, 31 July 2010
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Jacklin's bunker mentality unfair on a National treasure
Saturday, 24 July 2010
Brian Viner: The problem with a printed account of what someone has said is that the tongue in the cheek can't be seen, the ironic tone not heard.
Brian Viner: Pressing all the wrong buttons
Thursday, 22 July 2010
Alexander Graham Bell would turn in his grave if he knew how many people have come to regard his great invention as the enemy
Brian Viner: It may be heresy, but St Andrews is more than the Old Course
Saturday, 17 July 2010
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Brian Viner: No other sport is as virtuous as golf
Thursday, 15 July 2010
The 139th Open Championship begins today at the Home of Golf, the marvellous medieval burgh of St Andrews, and the main topic of discussion in the improbably numerous pubs and bars of the "auld grey toon" in the Kingdom of Fife is the form and more especially the mindset of the game's fallen hero, Tiger Woods.
Brian Viner: TV rivals slug it out in final battle
Monday, 12 July 2010
At last, four long weeks of football reached a glorious crescendo. This, finally, was what the 2010 World Cup had boiled down to, a head-to-head battle between two teams desperate to find peak performance when it mattered most, one led by Gary Lineker, the other by Adrian Chiles. This was it. BBC 1 v ITV 1. The big one.
Brian Viner: Gouda vs beaches: it's time to decide which side we're on
Saturday, 10 July 2010
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Formulaic TV is what people want
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
The BBC Trust, after reviewing the output of the Corporation's flagship television channels, BBC1 and BBC2, has arrived at the conclusion that they are showing too many programmes that are "formulaic" and "derivative". This news was given widespread media coverage yesterday, and we can only hope that media organisations will show the same degree of interest in the forthcoming announcement from senior sources at the Vatican, who, once they have completed their review of the output of Pope Benedict XVI, will feel obliged to report that he is overwhelmingly Catholic.
Brian Viner: Alan Shearer seems to possess all the tactical insight of Sybil Fawlty
Monday, 5 July 2010
View From The Sofa: At half-time during Paraguay v Spain, the great man found seven different ways to express his surprise at how poor the Spanish had been
Brian Viner: Wimbledon is weird – that's why it sums up England perfectly
Saturday, 3 July 2010
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Brian Viner: What's another 12 months after 74 years? Wait for a British winner goes on
Saturday, 3 July 2010
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