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Football
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The Arsenal striker who truly does score goals for fun is the perfect modern footballer. On the pitch, he's outrageously talented. In his TV adverts, he's assured and charming. But perhaps not every day can be a va-va-voom day. Exclusive interview by Andrew Anthony.
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Triumph and despair
Mark Bosnich: 'Yes I took drugs but only once my career was over. I have no regrets. I owe football absolutely nothing': The former goalkeeper on his struggles to rebuild his life following his sacking by Chelsea.
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10 things we love about...
... Gary Neville.
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Sporting pundits
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Look who's talking
Jonathan Rendall wanted to find out what makes a perfect pundit. Sitting in a studio - and then a pub - with Alan Brazil seemed as good a way as any to get the job started.
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Barry Venison: We know where you live
The great pundit question left hanging is, what happened to the much derided Barry Venison?
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Sporting spouses
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Sucess isn't all it's cracked up to be
Monty's marriage split, the tribulations of the Beckhams - do sport and relationship failures go hand in hand? With 70 per cent of all such marriages ending in divorce, the wives of the stars tell Louise France about the almost intolerable pressures on their lives.
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Mountaineering
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Home on the range
Yeti hunter, politician and for more than 30 years the world's most flamboyant mountaineer, Reinhold Messner pioneered solo ascents without oxygen in the Himalayas. But his life has been blighted by controversies. Here he reflects on his remarkable career.
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Horse racing
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Heroes and villains: Sir Mark Prescot
Neil Clark explains how the establishment toff and Tory landowner became the ordinary punter's favourite racehorse trainer.
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Cricket
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Abrahams's golden duck
Philip Cornwall:It is unclear who first came up with the idea of a man of the match or season, of highlighting one individual in a team sport.
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Golf
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Book of the month
The seven laws of the golf swing.
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OSM
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OSM wins top design award
Observer Sport Monthly has won the award for Best Designed Newspaper Supplement of the Year in the annual Press Gazette Magazine awards.
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OSM wins again
OSM has had a busy month on the winners' podium. Following hot in the footsteps of our award for best designed newspaper supplement, the OSM team, represented by deputy editor Gordon Thomson, took to the fairways for the inaugural TAG Heuer LINK Challenge.
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Regulars
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The 10 lamest sporting excuses
Lighton Ndefwayl Mervyn King | Carol Gaudie | Ronnie O'Sullivan | Sri Lanka | Shane Warne | Rupert Lowe | Jose Cardenal | Manchester United | Finland
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10 ways to shake up sport
What one rule change would make football more exciting? Is modern tennis too dull? We asked the experts how they would improve their favourite sport.
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Editorial
Goodbye for the last time.
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The sports column
Why Peter Wilby says he is against sports in schools.
Less sports more work
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My obsession
Michael Flatley on boxing.
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Letters
Letter of the month: Why Paula Radcliffe quit | More on Paula... | Body impolitic | Untangling the Webb | Brendan's blathering | Pole dancing | Motion sickness
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Close encounters with heroes and has-beens
The day I met Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and friends.
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Sporting shorts
People, places, oddities
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On the nose
Bets of the month by Lee Honeyball
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Number's game
Sporting statistics
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Mind games
Sporting quiz
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First and last
Chris Eubank, boxer and showman
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December 2007