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	<description>&#039;In Pope I cannot read a line, but with a sigh, I wish it mine&#039;</description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s get behind England&#8230;..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;.No, not those good-for-nothing footballing scoundrels who broke our hearts this summer. The England I am referring to are the England Women&#8217;s rugby team who, as we speculated last week, have made it to the final of the World Cup. A very physical and somewhat scrappy encounter ended in a 15-0 win over Australia in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.popeandswift.co.uk/?p=2910</link>
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		<title>Mistakes are human nature, sporting genius isn&#8217;t</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People cheat. In work, in relationships, in exams and in sport, we mere humans cheat. I don’t need to be a great philosopher to know that as people it is part of our programming that we are going to make mistakes, errors of judgements, and sometimes cheat. If the accused Pakistan players chose to take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.popeandswift.co.uk/?p=2900</link>
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		<title>Brentford blogger is from another league</title>
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1. DAVID HUNT &#8211; Brentford FC
David Hunt isn’t the type of football player who enjoys watching from the sidelines, especially when his team is struggling. 
League One side Brentford FC have got just a point from their first four games of the campaign whilst former Leyton Orient and Northampton Town man can only sit and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.popeandswift.co.uk/?p=2855</link>
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		<title>Introducing&#8230; Sidelines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the coming weeks, Pope and Swift will bring you Sidelines, a series of blogs with the aim of proving that footballers are actually interesting people who don&#8217;t just play golf in their spare time.
&#8216;Why?&#8217;, we hear you ask? Because we think footballers, as a collective, have an unfair reputation for being extravagant, unintelligent and predictable. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.popeandswift.co.uk/?p=2886</link>
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		<title>Separated at Birth: West Midlands whippets</title>
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You can almost imagine the scene. West Brom manager Roberto Di Matteo is sitting in the office of Jeremy Pearce, the Baggies chairman, identifying his transfer targets.
&#8216;I wanta new strika Mr Peace&#8217; the softly spoken Italian manages to get across. &#8216;I wanta sumaone who cana score Westa Brom many goals. Sumaone with pace who cana [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.popeandswift.co.uk/?p=2794</link>
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		<title>Warrington want it just as much</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Challenge Cup Final has all the markings of being Leeds Rhinos&#8217; day.  Their first Challenge Cup final for five years (since losing to Hull in 2005) and their first visit to the new Wembley Stadium (their last two finals were played at Cardiff&#8217;s Millenium Stadium) , it&#8217;s all set up for Brian McLennan&#8217;s side to win their first Challenge Cup [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.popeandswift.co.uk/?p=2818</link>
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		<title>We&#8217;re going to win the World Cup&#8230;who wants in?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup 2010 is being held here in England? Probably not. Did you know that England are one of the favourites to win the competition? Didn&#8217;t think so. And did you know that they have already claimed two impressive wins in the group stage without conceding a single point? Of course you didn&#8217;t. Welcome [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.popeandswift.co.uk/?p=2811</link>
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		<title>Separated at Birth: Danns and Davids</title>
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Pope and Swift don&#8217;t often do two Separated at Birth blogs in quick success but there&#8217;s a good reason for it. We think something fishy is going on at Selhurst Park. 
Neil Danns, the Crystal Palace midfielder, played and scored in his side&#8217;s 2-1 defeat at the hands of Ipswich on Saturday. Edgar Davids, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.popeandswift.co.uk/?p=2803</link>
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		<title>Separated at Birth: Percy and Prince Charming</title>
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Percy Montgomery, in Pope and Swift&#8217;s eyes, is an amalgamation of  cartoon characters you&#8217;d just love to punch. The retired South African rugby union player bears a passing resemblance to Gaston of Pope and Swift Disney favourite, Beauty and the Beast, a man famous for saying  &#8216;As a specimen, yes, I&#8217;m intimidating&#8217;, something which we can imagine the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.popeandswift.co.uk/?p=2774</link>
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		<title>The death of the 3pm kick off</title>
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Every year the Premier League sticks another nail in the coffin of the 3pm Saturday kick off . The 2010/2011 season won&#8217;t do anything to address the terminal decline.
A quick glance down the fixtures for August to December sees the Big Four playing an unprecedented number of games at times other than the traditional Saturday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.popeandswift.co.uk/?p=2769</link>
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