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Match Report: Bulls charge past the Knights

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Since I desire a career in sports journalism, the most obvious thing to do is to gather some experience. So that's why last night I wrote a match report for 'Pedigree Hereford FC Website' Bulls News. At this time, feedback is needed most which is why I've published it here. Thanks in advance for the response. Bulls Charge Past The Knights Two Goals For John Mills Helped Hereford To Victory Callum Devereux reports from Stratford. For this midweek fixture. Stratford welcomed the Bulls to a chilly Moodchimp stadium, looking to improve after picking up a largely undeserved point at Slough.   Peter Beadle made 5 changes and only named 4 subs as the injury list began to bulge like Jack Deaman's head on Saturday. Out he went, along with Preston, Richards, Symons and Preen and in came Green, O'Shea (fresh from his loan extension), Murphy, Bird and Lance Smith.   The game began with Stratford keen to make themselves known on their bobbly p...

There's a Strom coming...

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Firstly, I wish that your Christmas and New Year surpassed your expectations. Now though attentions turns to the year ahead and for other 15 and 16 year olds, the next 6 months in particular. In the next 6 months, millions of 15-16 year olds will sit the majority, if not all of their GCSEs. I'm writing this on the eve of returning to school. And rather sadly, as much as we would like to postpone and procrastinate, time will ever come closer until it becomes too close. And this procrastination reminds me of someone who, when we are taking our GCSEs, would have been 115. This is Strom Thurmond.   He is/was mainly known for firstly serving in the US Senate (an Upper House of a bicameral legislature - see previous post) for almost 50 years until the age of 100, and secondly running as a candidate in the 1948 Presidential Election. The platform he stood on was Dixiecrat, a splinter from the Democrats who supported racial segregation. Hopefully this should be enough for you to fo...