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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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Bill Clinton With Nelson Mandela

Pursuits | By Jim White

Mandela the rugby coach

Ahead of the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan, Jim White reveals how Nelson Mandela helped the Springboks win the 1995 final

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Blog | By Jim White | Jul 02, 2019

Football's glorious summer

The Lionesses will play the USA tonight in the Women's World Cup semi-final. After an already brilliant summer for English football, Jim White hopes their success can give the women's game the respect it deserves

Ofo Bikes

Blog | By Jim White | Jan 11, 2019

Britain: a step too far for dockless bikes

Dockless bikes are on the out. Vandalism and Britain's unorthodox parking methods have seen OFO, a Chinese firm, withdraw their bikes from circulation, says Jim White

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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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