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I Watched 15 Sports In Japan For The First Time In 2023

Growing up in the UK in the 1980s as a British sports fan was a very different time. Sport on TV was fairly limited and indeed people sat down on Saturday afternoons to watch whatever Grandstand (BBC TV) and World … Continue reading

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Cobra Kai Inspired Me To Go To A Real Karate Tournament But How Did Reality Compare With Fiction?

It’s fair to say that the Karate Kid films in the 1980s had a profound affect on my life, and since the Cobra Kai series began in 2018 it has become my all-time favouite TV series. Of course it’s not … Continue reading

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