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https://thesefootballtimes.co/2015/10/26/mark-hughes-the-introvert-who-saved-alex-fergusons-job/ by MJ CORRIGAN THE GUARDIAN, 26/10/2015  When the idiosyncratically brilliant English winger Chris Waddle left his job in a sausage factory to sign professionally with Newcastle United at the relatively late age of 19, he thought all his childhood dreams had finally come true . Little did Waddle know that his first two-and-a-half years under his new manager, Arthur Cox , were about to make him wish he’d carried on packing up bangers instead of banging in screamers . The majority of the pros Waddle joined at Newcastle would have been attached to professional clubs from an early age and were extremely comfortable in that environment. Few are likely to have seen the inside of a factory at any rate, and Waddle cut a quiet and withdrawn figure, intimidated in their company and rarely joining in with the fabled dressing-room banter . Cox, the traditional footballing...

http://www.the-shot.it/2019/11/27/50-anni-di-reign-man/?fbclid=IwAR1ijkMM_149LSUX-ZbR8T493r2rsocYboAwzVTtlbSpHTHOR6jBHh7IdBQ Davide Torelli  27 novembre, 2019 Se dovessimo definire il momento-spartiacque nella carriera di Shawn Kemp, sarebbe la partita del 2 febbraio 1997, alla Key Arena di Seattle.  Dopo il 4 a 2 subìto nelle NBA Finals del 1996, i Seattle Supersonics ospitano per la prima volta i Chicago Bulls di Michael Jordan, tornati "campioni del mondo".  È l’ottava stagione da professionista per l’uomo chiamato Reign Man, la sua ultima nella “Città di smeraldo”, prima di venir scambiato proseguendo verso il declino per altre sei stagioni. Non contano i numeri registrati durante l’esperienza con i Cavaliers, più in linea con il suo passato che con la triste conclusione della sua epopea atletica: Kemp stava cadendo in un vortice tanto profondo quanto inevitabile, destinato a toccar il fondo prima a Portland e poi ad Orlando. Neanche il posse...