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Keeping a record

 As another season draws to a close, I find myself leafing back through the pages of my gamebook as I write up the last few days’ sport. I have always kept a gamebook and as time marches on, I’m increasingly glad that all those days are recorded for posterity. The lovely thing about these records is that they recall the sheer variety of the sport we’re fortunate enough to enjoy and my jottings now run to three volumes. The first book

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