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Lionel Messi scored his 44th, 45th and 46th league goals against Malaga. Picture: Getty

Aidan Smith: Hail Messi and beware the anti-Barca brigade

IT’S A terrible moment in the life of a football-loving nostalgist when you realise the issue is not that things ain’t as good as they used to be but that they might not have been so epoch-making in the first place.

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Iain Morrison: As tough a Test as Scottish club rugby has ever faced

NO WONDER Irish rugby is in such rude health after feasting on a rich diet of Heineken Rugby for most of the last decade.

Richard Bath: Au revoir from the Aviva

‘Edinburgh left nothing out on the park. They came with an audacious game plan’

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Mark Cavendish and team mate David Millar wait for the start of the Men's Eilte Road Race. Picture: Getty

Richard Moore: Mall of confusion over drugs

PICTURE the scene. The Mall, Saturday, 28 July. At the finish of the men’s Olympic road race Spain’s Alejandro Valverde outsprints Holland’s Thomas Dekker for the gold medal, with Kazakhstan’s Alexandre Vinokourov claiming bronze.

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Tom Watson on the 9th hole at Turnberry, which could be improved but won`t. Picture: Getty

John Huggan: ‘Fixing’ a hole ... or how the custodians of the game made a hash of changing courses to deal with technology

IT IS a sad but undeniable fact that history will not be kind to those charged with the administration of golf over the last two decades or so.

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Sleeping partner: The Ibrox takeover saga has turned into a nightmare with the bids and bidders changing amid myriad offers and conditions. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA

Tom English: ‘If Bill Miller’s statement doesn’t galvanise Paul Murray and his cohorts then nothing will’

WHEN do you know that this Rangers story is playing an unhealthily significant part in your life? When you start dreaming about it, that’s when. When you find yourself sitting in the black chair at Mastermind answering John Humphrys’ questions on your specialist subject – Bill Miller and the battle for Rangers football club.

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Its here somewhere: Retief Goosen of South Africa looks for his ball in the rough at the 2010 Scottish Open, a pastime increasingly disillusioned weekend golfers are finding themselves doing more often. Photograph: Warren Little/Getty

John Huggan: Scottish golf should look at itself before playing blame game

SCOTTISH golf is blaming all kinds of things for a decline in membership, but clubs should take a look in their own overgrown back yard first

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Many fans will find themselves without this elusive brief. Picture: SNS

Aidan Smith: Ticket? Being a chancer would be a fine thing...

WELL, my voice is still hoarse on account of not having done much shouting recently.

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