James Staniland
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James Staniland
@JamesSt28
Obsessed with darts mainly PDC but like the BDO too. Writer for My Darting Life. Views are my own.
Leeds Katılım Ekim 2014
421 Takip Edilen140 Takipçiler

@JamesSt28 Totally!! This last goal was one of Martin Tyler’s first commtaries. Bizarrely in Scotland back then, if there was a clash, the home team would change kits!! Cappielow doesn’t look much different these days!! youtu.be/glx6pbqnRpI?si…

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@Quoton Great goal - don’t think the floodlights helped as well haha
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@JamesSt28 Lol, that sums him up. He was a genius. This next clip was in April back in the day….looks more like winter!! Springtime in Greenock 😂😂 youtu.be/HMOrqp7OeQw?si…

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Running a competition for 2 tickets for my match Saturday morning and Sunday morning plus hotel stay in Sheffield Saturday night
Question….. what is my lowest score round an 18 hole golf course????
Winner picked tonight at 10pm
Good luck everyone
In the event of more than one correct answer winner will be drawn at random
One guess per person please
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Incredible use of the pulpit here. Trump and Vance squirming in silence.
MeidasTouch@MeidasTouch
Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.
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Andrey Rublev & Daniil Medvedev sat down for an interview about their friendship
“What is your biggest wish for each other?”
Daniil: “My biggest wish is for you to be more happy” 🥹
Andrey: “I was wishing for you to win more Slams & be world #1” 😂
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14 years ago today, Isner-Mahut concluded...
- The match was stopped at two sets all on Tuesday
- At 6 hours 34 minutes, it broke the world record
- It stole headlines from the Football World Cup
- The scoreboard froze at 47-47 in the fifth set
- It was stopped again at 59-59 on Wednesday
- That evening, Andy Roddick brought pizza for Isner
- IBM spent the night fixing the scoreboard system
- John McEnroe was in attendance on Thursday
- Mahut served to stay in the match 64 times
- Isner eventually won 70-68 in 11 hours 5 minutes
- 85 matches were completed in the meantime
- Both players served 100+ aces, another record
- Both players spent 16,000 calories across 3 days
- Mohamed Lahyani never took a bathroom break
- A ceremony was held on court to honour them
- Mahut blacked out and showered in his clothes
- He returned to the same court that day for doubles
- Isner failed to serve a single ace in the next round
- He lost to Thiemo de Bakker in 1 hour 14 minutes
- A plaque is commemorating the match at Court 18
- Memorabilia is on display at the Tennis Hall of Fame
- Mahut published a book titled ‘The Match of My Life'
- They jointly won an award over Federer & Usain Bolt
- The odds of them facing again in 2011 were 1 of 142
- Isner won in three sets in 'just' 2 hours 3 minutes
- Isner & Mahut became close friends over the years
- Isner sent Mahut a card when Mahut's son was born
- HBO released a mockumentary titled '7 Days in Hell'
- 12-12 tiebreaks were introduced at Wimbledon in 2019
- Wimbledon posted the full match on YouTube in 2020
- One day I'll rewatch it, but that day hasn't come yet
- It had never happened and it'll never happen again
- I'll always remember where I was the last two days
- Thanks for the memories, @JohnIsner & @nmahut

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Doggo is back with his Champions League predictions
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Penguins strolling at the Basel Zoo, in Switzerland. They do it every morning and they are free to chose if they want to attend or not.
[📹enfant_terrible86]
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@scattydove @historyinmemes It’s some mad rule from the 19 century. It would never happen anyway tbf but it is made
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@scattydove @historyinmemes Scenes. Pathetically I did know that haha. Probably seen it before somewhere 😂
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