by Paul Thomas | May 2, 2015 | Sports
Paul Thomas2015-05-02 Many top-line athletes are combinations of beauty and the beast but few more so than Uruguayan soccer player Luis Suarez. Playing for Barcelona in a Champions League tie against Paris Saint-Germain, Suarez scored two breathtaking goals both of...
by Paul Thomas | Mar 14, 2015 | Sports
Paul Thomas2015-03-14 Almost 30 years on, Buck Shelford’s scrotum is back in the headlines. A new book by French investigative journalist Pierre Ballester (sic) exposes widespread drug use in French rugby during the 1980s and 90s. Ballester quotes the French team...
by Paul Thomas | May 3, 2009 | Essay, Sports
Paul Thomas2009-05-03 Back in the days before all sporting events of any significance and some of no significance at all were accorded live television coverage (or, in my case, before television itself), the young sports fan had to make do with books. This was the...
