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Listed below are comments made by 85truemans between Tuesday, 1st July 2008 and Wednesday, 23rd December 2009.

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Paying a heavy penalty 10:27am on 23 Dec 2009 Dan, you say of your editor that 'he has a worrying habit of starting every cue with a "Well". I have to limit him to two per programme.' On the same theme, could you possibly have a word with your counterparts on Sky Sports News about the excessive use of the word "Now" at the start of every link?
It's now irritating me even beyond the level of Australian cricketers' compulsion to preface every answer to every question with the word "look".
If you could just sort that for me it would make my Christmas. Thanks.
What Mercedes buy-out of Brawn could mean 1:55pm on 18 Nov 2009 When I started following F1 in 1984 (I was a very precocious baby!) the UK had Martin Brundle, Jonathan Palmer, Nigel Mansell and Derek Warwick all racing. Realistically only Warwick (in the works Renault) was seen to have a chance of winning races and none of them were expected to challenge for the championship.
Fast forward 25 years and we are reduced to 2 UK drivers... but both of them are World Champions and both are expected to be competitive next season. Have we sacrificed depth for strength? Is this a price worth paying? I suppose it is but I miss the days of a plucky Brit chugging round at the back of the field in a Zakspeed.
No carping about Kaka coup 1:24pm on 16 Jan 2009 The thing is, though, if they do sign Kaka for £100M and pay him £0.5M per week, what's going to happen next time they go after a world class player? One great player doesn't make a great team so dropping Kaka in amongst City's good but unremarkable squad won't get them into the champion's league.

They're going to have to keep buying and spending on wages. And what is any club going to do if City want to buy their player? Double the price. And what will the player's agent do? Double the salary demands. This sheikh is dizzying wealthy with £15bn in his pocket but once their spending gets over £500M and they're still not winning trophies, what will he do then? Spend more? What happens when he's spent £1bn on his first team. What happens if the recession is a long one and the oil price doesn't recover? Sooner or later he'll get hacked off, bored, whatever and sell the club to Ken Bates for £1.
The power of One 1:28pm on 01 Jul 2008 "But going forward we aim to offer our audiences the best of both worlds." Tut tut, Roger. You really ought to read the BBC site a little more assiduously...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7453584.stm

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