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Health | The goalkeeper’s anxiety at the filtered cigarette
Portsmouth goalkeeper David James writes an entertaining column for Guardian Unlimited, most recently meditating on the cultural contact between football and smoking and confessing his own “15-year 20-a-day habit” (“It’s Time for the Whole Game to Stub Out My Filthy Habit,” Mar 16). (Mar 19)
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Writes Eduardo Galeano of the new collection from 
University of Nebraska Press, The Global Game: Writers on Soccer, "At the end, soccer believers will confirm ... that they have never been alone. And pagans will be converted." Go to website »
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The far, blurred sounds, a cry, a whistle, the thud of a kick, all that was perfectly unimportant and had no connection with me. I was less the keeper of a soccer goal than the keeper of a secret. (Vladimir Nabokov, Conclusive Evidence, 1951)
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