
John Ashdown
Sports Journalist at The Guardian
Guardian sport journalist and 100% Blade (though without tattooed proof of the fact)
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | John Ashdown
Saturday’s game against Sunderland will be Sheffield United’s fifth playoff final. They have lost each of their previous four. I was at every one. 1997,Crystal Palace 1-0 Sheffield United, Wembley: the one that hurtTechnically this was United’s second experience of playoff misery having lost a relegation playoff against Bristol City in 1988, but by the mid-1990s the Football League post-season had developed into A Thing, thanks in large part to the decision to move the final to Wembley in 1990.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | John Ashdown
Leeds were crowned Championship champions in dramatic fashion after Manor Solomon’s injury-time winner against Plymouth at Home Park meant Daniel Farke’s side held off Burnley, who beat Millwall 3-1, to seal top spot with a century of points.
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Dec 23, 2024 |
theguardian.com | John Ashdown
Ben Stokes will undergo surgery in January and be out of action for at least three months with a torn hamstring, the England and Wales Cricket Board has announced. The England Test captain was injured during the recent third Test against New Zealand in Hamilton. An ECB statement said: “Ben Stokes has been ruled out of all cricket for at least three months after further assessments confirmed he has torn his left hamstring.
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Oct 18, 2024 |
theguardian.com | John Ashdown
ANDY IN BORDEAUXIt seems pretty likely that history will look back on the career of Andy Carroll (if at all) with a certain amount of puzzlement and confusion. Terrifyingly effective £35m goal trebuchet? Knack-prone serial flop? The final flourishing of the English Big Man? The great what-might-have-been of the Capello/Hodgson England eras? A wasted talent whose international caps only arrived because the alternative was Jay Bothroyd?
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Sep 6, 2024 |
theguardian.com | John Ashdown
Fin Graham has had his fair share of close finishes at these Games. In the velodrome he was edged out by his teammate Jaco van Gass in the C3 indidivdual pursuit. In the road time trial on Wednesday fewer than 20 seconds over those 28.3km separated him from a second medal. But on Saturday he finally came out on the winning side of a close call, taking gold in the men’s C1-3 road race in Clichy-sous-Bois by a whisker from France’s Thomas Peyroton-Dartet.
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