Jim White

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Jim White writes a regular Sports column for the Oldie. His own sporting credentials are somewhat sketchy. Though he has run a couple of marathons. Slowly. And was once the coach of his son’s junior football team, an experience which he chronicled in his best-selling book “You’ll Win Nothing With Kids”.

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Blog | By Jim White | Mar 09, 2018

Roger Bannister, the fastest – and most polite – man on the planet

A great friend to the magazine, he charmed us all when he won Oldie of the Year

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Pursuits | By Jim White

Sport: Manchester City

How good are this Manchester City team? Are they as good as the all-conquering Barcelona side of recent years? How do they compare with Arsenal’s Invincibles? And what about Manchester United’s treble winners or Liverpool of the Eighties? Or even, for us oldies with longer memories, how do they match up to Brian Clough’s Seventies Nottingham Forest or Bill Nicholson’s Sixties Tottenham?

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Pursuits | By Jim White

Sport: A Champion's Shame

Lewis Hamilton’s hopes of capping his triumphant, history-making season with the honour of being voted Britain’s most popular sportsperson came to a grinding, shuddering halt in November. It wasn’t a Sebastian Vettel overtaking manoeuvre or a slip-up by his pit crew that put paid to his chances of popping the BBC Sports Personality of the Year trophy on to his sideboard. It was a bit of bookkeeping that stymied his ambition.

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Pursuits | By Jim White

Sport: The world’s strongest man

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Pursuits | By Jim White

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Boxing Clever?

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Pursuits | By Jim White

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