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Wigan Athletic End Of Term Report: We Need A Striker To Make It Work

June 29, 2011
Wigan Athletic End Of Term Report: We Need A Striker To Make It Work

The ‘I f*cking love this game’ highlight of the season?
It’s half time, Wigan Athletic are 2-0 down at home to West Ham all but relegated and boos are resonating around the ground while 4,000 Cockneys give it ‘Bubbles’. I’m having a pint with my mate and this old fella comes up to us ’37 years I’ve been a season ticket holder and I won’t be here next year thanks to that clueless Spanish idiot’, my response is typically blunt being in the particularly crude form of ‘make [...]

Wilderness trek for teens out of step with the mainstream

June 27, 2011
Wilderness trek for teens out of step with the mainstream

FOR seven angry girls about to spend nine nights in the desert, these teenagers seemed remarkably cheerful.
Yesterday was the first day of the first Young Women’s Program run by Evolve, a not-for-profit organisation that works with troubled teens. The team leaders have been taking wayward boys on wilderness treks for almost two decades. But the rising numbers of young women in trouble with the law in the past six years has convinced Evolve’s management it’s time to give at-risk girls an outback adventure of their own. [...]