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May 13, 2007
Richard Hammond; What a drag!!
The reason I thought I hated Top Gear was because I am a technophobe who would buy a car based on its colour and other minor aesthetics, rather than the engineering prowess under the bonnet. I have been humiliated in PC World and smirked at in The Car Phone Warehouse by refugees from boy bands more often that I care to remember. My worst experience was when I spent a night trapped in a hostel in Argentina with alien beings from Geekon. My Olympus Trip camera didn't make it across The Straits of Magellan after being saturated in what seemed like a scene from Moby Dick. Fortunately I came across a group of experts who took great pleasure in helping me out of my predicament. I paid the price in more ways than one
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May 2, 2007
Portrait of the footballer as a young man
Several months ago there was an article in the Echo about Italian football legend Giorgio Chinaglia. Like many stories about his career it starts with the fact that he played for Swansea Town before achieving fame, fortune, and immortality at Lazio, then New York Cosmos. He also played for Italy 14 times including in the world cup of 1974. Much like the mystery that surrounds the whereabouts and activities of Jesus between the ages of 12 and 30, there seems to be a mysterious void in Giorgi's existence during his crucial early formative years in Cardiff . Giorgio's well known self regard would appreciate this analogy. Perhaps I can fill a couple of gaps. My nephew Paul, a former pupil of Corpus Christi High School which morphed from Ladymary Sec. Mod., the educational establishment that both Giorgio and I attended in the early 60's, asked me why there was no trace or mention of the gifted one in either school. I enlightened him.
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