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		<title>10 Reasons Why Bradford is Better Than Leeds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>An Interview with Billy Pearce ( Extended Version)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an uncut version of the interview I did with Billy Pearce for HowDo? magazine. Panto without Billy Pearce is like turkey without the stuffing. If there is one thing you are sure to see at Christmas time in Bradford it is the broad smile of the local legend plastered across the front of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=haighsimpson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10187203&amp;post=237&amp;subd=haighsimpson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sign Him Up</title>
		<link>http://haighsimpson.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/sign-him-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ali Dia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bojinov]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The flood of activity in the transfer market is gathering pace. Speculation, anticipation and a sense of optimism emanates round the football community. Eager fans wait impatiently like children on Christmas Eve, looking for clues wherever they can and speculating wildly. Who will be the clubs next signing? ‘Is this bloke from Djibouti going to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=haighsimpson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10187203&amp;post=227&amp;subd=haighsimpson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Help Me I&#8217;m A Phobiaphobe</title>
		<link>http://haighsimpson.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/help-me-im-a-phobiaphobe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ramblings]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time in the first century AD Roman writer and physicist Aulus Cornelius Celsius (not to be confused with the 18th century Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius) first used the phrase ‘phobia’ as a way of describing morbid fears. You would be hard pushed to imagine he envisaged his theory would have subsequently transcended into such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=haighsimpson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10187203&amp;post=208&amp;subd=haighsimpson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reportage</title>
		<link>http://haighsimpson.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/reportage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hands point to 11:24; they have done so for as long as anyone can remember. The insipid structure is a fitting monument to a town that time forgot. Dreary concrete structures flank the tower on either side, the sea of grey interrupted only by the shop fronts below. Bargain food stores, charity shops and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=haighsimpson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10187203&amp;post=206&amp;subd=haighsimpson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fitting Inbetween</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can’t be the only person who feels immediately inadequate when they pass through the barriers at Leeds station. Not wanting to sound vain, (and realizing instantaneously that I am being) any positive ideas you had about your appearance go out of the window the instant that ticket pops up from the gate. I know [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=haighsimpson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10187203&amp;post=199&amp;subd=haighsimpson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goal For The Season</title>
		<link>http://haighsimpson.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/goal-for-the-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget the brilliance of Rooney’s goal for one minute and consider its significance. It may well have been the goal that won the title for Manchester United. It certainly ended their city rivals hopes, who are now nine points adrift having played one game more. The blue half of Manchester will now join Tottenham and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=haighsimpson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10187203&amp;post=194&amp;subd=haighsimpson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haigh Simpson&#8217;s Sporting Scrapbook</title>
		<link>http://haighsimpson.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/haigh-simpsons-sporting-scrapbook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My blog page now has a sister site, Haigh Simpson&#8217;s sporting scrapbook. It is basically a collection of the interesting or amusing sport related video&#8217;s, pictures and links I find each day. There will be comment of course, although the aim is to keep it short and sweet. It will also include regular features such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=haighsimpson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10187203&amp;post=186&amp;subd=haighsimpson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Watch The Rugby, It Will Make You Feel Good</title>
		<link>http://haighsimpson.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/watch-the-rugby-it-will-make-you-feel-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Rugby Union]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being working class and from the North I should probably be a Rugby League man, but I’m not. To be truthful I don’t really like Rugby of any ilk, I don’t even understand the rules. Yet there is something about the six-nations that makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, something [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=haighsimpson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10187203&amp;post=178&amp;subd=haighsimpson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Story Of Transfer Deadline Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andy Carroll]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Adam]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deadline Day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Transfer deadline day: sports greatest soap opera. More twists, turns, drama and sub-plots than an anniversary special, and almost as ridiculous. It is probably the most exciting yet repulsive day on the football calendar. For every jubilant fan, drooling over their new messiah, another sits dejected and mournful at the loss of their hero. Of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=haighsimpson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10187203&amp;post=170&amp;subd=haighsimpson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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