The following is based on a true story. Sadly.1. Rain. That’s what you’ll see when you wake up. Loads of it. ‘Bloody typical,’ you will say, ‘every day at Wimbledon has been hot and sunny this year. Except today. When the roads are...
7 Reasons I Shouldn’t Do A Mexican Wave In My Living Room
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Ever wondered what would happen if you started a Mexican wave in your own living room? I did. I thought it through during the Brazil vs. Chile match last night. I won’t be starting one. 1. I’ll look foolish. My wife won’t join in. As I...
7 Reasons England’s Footballers Should Have An Open-Top Bus Parade
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England missed the boat yesterday. Thankfully, they are still in time for the bus.1. Public Transport. After their performance at this World Cup the players may as well get used to travelling on the bus. Except Stephen Warnock. He didn’t do much wrong. In...
Russian Roulette Sunday: The A to Z of 7 Reasons (part II)
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Well, it’s Sunday again, and the thing that we were hoping to bring you has been put back due to our website difficulties this week. So here’s the thing that was going to appear next week: Part II of the A-Z of 7 Reasons. Last week remains unaffected.N is for...
Guest Post: 7 Reasons Watching Slovakia vs Italia Was An Education
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After an eventful week – in which we concentrated mainly on football, John McEnroe’s hair and lots of funny codes doing lots of unfunny things and destroying the internet in the process – we are taking the day off. Slipping onto the sofa for the very...
7 Reasons to be Glad We’re Playing Germany (Again)
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It’s been a fraught week at 7 Reasons (.org). First we upgraded the website, then we redesigned the website, then we had a catastrophic failure of the website which left us offline for a day and then we fixed it, and are still tinkering with it to make it more...
7 Reasons England Will Beat Ze Germans
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1. Ze German Edlines. The German hacks are primed to write such classics as So Klose, But So Far. Although obviously they’ll write it in German. So it’ll be something like Zo Klose, But Zo Var. Basically, Miroslav Klose is going to take a shot from...
7 Reasons John McEnroe Can Not Be Serious (About His Hair)
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With the opening credits of BBC’s 2010 Wimbledon coverage came joy, happiness, extortionately priced strawberries and the horror of John McEnroe’s new hair. I say new hair, it’s probably quite old hair, but it does look different. And not for the...
Sorry, things went a bit awry.
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Hi, Marc here. The non-Kent-dwelling half of the 7 Reasons team. Yesterday, we had a bit of a catastrophic failure of our website, which meant that no one got to see Jon’s beautiful video about John McEnroe’s hair. Our website is still a bit fragile...
7 Reasons To Love French Football
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Sometimes, words are not enough. But that’s okay, we can always fall back on music and pictures. 7 Reasons To Love French Football
Russian Roulette Sunday: The A to Z of 7 Reasons (part I)
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Crikey! It’s the first part of an A to Z of 7 Reasons. Whatever will they think of next? Yup, the second part. Almost certainly.A is for Advertising. It’s something we haven’t quite got right yet. Since we blew the whole of our budget on an...
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