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Wright is a professional football player. Wright's page brings together career clubs, trophies, injury history, multi-competition stats, and related news headlines. On Sportra you can explore Wright season statistics, transfer history, trophies, injury updates, and related news across every competition tracked in the profile.
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Royal Lyceum, EdinburghDawn Steele stars in Ron Ferguson’s warm-hearted tale of a town whose fortunes are tied to those of its coal mine and local teamBlack diamonds are what they used to dig up from the Fife coalfields. The Blue Brazil is the unlikely nickname of Cowdenbeath football club. Together, in the 1993 book by Ron Ferguson, they represent the bittersweet hopes of a downtrodden town: the coal that brought work, fatal accidents and unemployment; the team that brought moments of joy and a litany of loss. You would call it a triumph of the underdog, except this team never triumphs.“Some things are more important than winning,” is the catchphrase of the ex-miner and diehard Cowdenbeath fan (Barrie Hunter) who haunts this warm-hearted adaptation by Gary McNair, first aired as an audio drama in 2021. More important, the playwright would argue, is a sense of community, of shared experience, of learning not to be defeated by pit closures, job losses, relegation and death. It is about “how to lose and keep going with hope”. Continue reading...
BBC to add Giroud to regular panel, including FrankPostecoglou will join ITV, who show England openerThe former Tottenham managers Ange Postecoglou and Thomas Frank will go head to head in the TV studio this summer as rival World Cup pundits. The Guardian has learned that Frank has signed a deal with BBC Sport as one of their main analysts, with Postecoglou having agreed to work for ITV.The BBC is also understood to have added the former Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud to their regular punditry panel that includes Wayne Rooney, Joe Hart and Alan Shearer, with ITV recruiting Andros Townsend to join Gary Neville, Ian Wright and Roy Keane. Continue reading...
One of the top North Carolina high school football head coaches is stepping down and moving on to become an administrator at another school, according to a HighSchoolOT report on Friday. [ $19.99 gets you a FULL year of On3 | Rivals national coverage ] Per the report, Dr. Steven Wright is stepping down as […]
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