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The Watcher: April 2008
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The News in your area. The Unveiling of the Brian Clough Statue. Saturday, 26 April 2008. Well, I don’t know if it was just low expectations following last week’s flattish effort (and previous two-parters stinking the place up), but I ended up rather enjoying that. Not sure it all quite hung together, but there were a lot of very pleasing bits - not least the fact the Sontarans are rather interesting all of a sudden, aren’t they? Been done, hasn’t it? Sontarans aside, there was a lot for oldies and newbi...
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The Watcher: Regeneration: Who knew?
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The News in your area. The Unveiling of the Brian Clough Statue. Wednesday, 2 July 2008. If you can read this, it means that - finally - the Internet is cool enough to touch again. As has been widely reported, the sheer level of fan speculation following Saturday’s explosive climax (it reached an incredible 17.3 on the Hugh-Bonneville Scale) caused heat exchangers at the Internet’s UK hub - actually a giant warehouse in Rugby - to go into meltdown. It’s great, innit? 8217; bit…. 8230;in the Black Country...
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The Watcher: Last-minute change
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The News in your area. The Unveiling of the Brian Clough Statue. Saturday, 28 June 2008. As your correspondent (currently convalescing in East coast exile) drops, drained and confused, into the Chair of Reckoning for the weekly outpouring, the mobile goes off. As your resident Mysterious Projection From The Future, I feel I’ve let you down, because I just didn’t see it coming. But did you? I mean it can’t be, can it? If it is… but it can’t be! But it could be! BUT IT COULD BE! And all that did happen, of...
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The Watcher: Left in no doubt
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The News in your area. The Unveiling of the Brian Clough Statue. Saturday, 21 June 2008. Left in no doubt. Well, it was the Doctor-Lite one… but otherwise this was as heavy, bleak and brilliant as anything ever done under the Doctor Who banner. It was almost… ach! Writer Russell T Davies certainly understands that - and what a brilliant, long game he’s playing with the viewers. First the showman’s tricks, the feints, the misdirections;. 8216;This season will be the ‘lighter one’. 8217; And then this.
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The Watcher: An awkward silence
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The News in your area. The Unveiling of the Brian Clough Statue. Saturday, 7 June 2008. Strange news from another world: it appears - and perhaps you’d better sit down - some people didn’t like Silence in the Library. Yes, yes, I know exactly what you’re thinking: the chumps! Actually turning the telly off halfway through the episode. Another confessed to disappointment on discovering there was a part two due - and not as in ‘I just can’t wait another week! 8217;, either. Long-term fans found themselves ...
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The Watcher: Time we said goodbye
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The News in your area. The Unveiling of the Brian Clough Statue. Saturday, 5 July 2008. Time we said goodbye. 8230;of course, nobody. Thought he was regenerating, did they? Still, that ‘regeneration energy’ business struck Team Watcher as slight swizz, as if Rassilon’s great gift to the Time Lords - a complete cellular remix, but only when strictly necessary - was little more than the recipe for a pick-me-up, like Lucozade. That said, it only registered a 4.4 on the ‘Naaaaaah! But if Rose brought the Doc...
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Eamonn Gavigan
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Nottingham - Local News. Wednesday, 16 July 2008. How many men does it take to make a hole three inches in diameter and about six inches deep? Well, if they are from the Royal and Ancient, eight. One to hold the tape, one to press the contraption which makes the hole into the ground and six to make sure they are doing it right. They must have been higher up the ladder than the two labourers. They had their hands in their pockets, a sure sign they must be bosses. It took about an hour to make the decision...
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Matt Halfpenny: Unity at Stags is encouraging for future
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Monday, 9 February 2009. Unity at Stags is encouraging for future. MANSFIELD Town are a club who have taken a hell of a lot of criticism over recent seasons. During the Keith Haslam era, the Stags never seemed to be far from the headlines for all the wrong reasons. And even though the new board have been in charge for just a matter of months, they have already had their problems, not least when the club were deducted four points for fielding ineligible players early in the season. Given that Friday’...
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Matt Halfpenny: Adlington legacy just won't last
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008. Adlington legacy just won't last. CALL it coincidence, but Water Meadows in Mansfield was packed yesterday morning after Rebecca Adlington’s Olympic gold medal swim on Monday. Admittedly, the ‘baths’, as they call them round my way, are significantly busier during the school holidays. It was also raining outside, so there was not much chance of getting out on the local park with jumpers for goalposts either. What would particularly please me is to see more kids diving in at the...
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Matt Halfpenny: Mansfield Town - that sinking feeling
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Wednesday, 30 April 2008. Mansfield Town - that sinking feeling. I will never forget the goal that effectively relegated Mansfield from the Football League. It was one of those goals you see on compilation DVDs. One of those once-a-season efforts that defies explanation. As soon as Jamie Yates’ 40-yard lob from out on the right touchline had beaten the back-pedaling Jason White to nestle in the back of the net, I knew it was all over for the Stags. These days, you get what you pay for in football, so it ...