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The reason could be to do with the oval-ball game: rugby, or its macho Australian alternative, Australian Rules. Played in schools, these sports work more parts of the body than football, England's indigenous sport. Rugby and Aussie Rules train players to catch above their head, throw, pass, si...

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Published inDaily telegraph (London, England : 1969)
Main Author SIMON HUGHES IN GALLE
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London (UK) Daily Telegraph 20.12.2007
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Collingwood, Paul
Sidebottom, Ryan
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Summary:The reason could be to do with the oval-ball game: rugby, or its macho Australian alternative, Australian Rules. Played in schools, these sports work more parts of the body than football, England's indigenous sport. Rugby and Aussie Rules train players to catch above their head, throw, pass, sidestep, sprint and tackle. It is all-round body conditioning that football, with its emphasis on kicking and trapping, can never rival. Football is the impromptu sport of choice in England. In the southern hemisphere, it's the oval ball you see being flung around in parks and fields. And the best all-round athlete in the England team - a man who can catch, throw and dive and glides easily across the ground - is Kevin Pietersen, reared in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Prior's problems may be as much positional as physical. He has now missed seven chances off Ryan Sidebottom, perhaps because he doesn't appear to radically alter his starting point for Sidebottom's different angle.
ISSN:0307-1235