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  • Hit for six by Sobers

    Hit for six by Sobers0

    Hanging from a string at the doorway of a recently opened Surbiton cafe is a cricket ball. It’s at Coffee on the Corner, where Beaconsfield Road meets King Charles Road. But what is it doing suspended there? It commemorates the mighty six scored by arguably the greatest cricketing all-rounder of all time, Garry Sobers, who

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  • The football pioneer who coined ‘soccer’

    The football pioneer who coined ‘soccer’0

    Former England football captain Charles Wreford-Brown is the man credited with coining the word ‘soccer’. A centre-half for Corinthian FC – now the Corinthian-Casuals, who play at Tolworth – he lived at 1 Walpole Road, Surbiton, an imposing pile on the corner with Upper Brighton Road. Affectionately nicknamed Mr Corinthian, he was an immense character

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  • Maren Mjelde: queen of cool

    Maren Mjelde: queen of cool0

    If Chelsea Women are awarded a penalty in their Sunday lunchtime game against Everton – a team who are punching above their weight this season – expect an ice-cool Norwegian to step up and take the kick. Maren Mjelde scored from the spot against Manchester United (pictured below, as the packed Chemflow End held their

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  • Sophie for Team GB captain?

    Sophie for Team GB captain?0

    Nursing a shiner (no, she wasn’t in a pub fight… a ball hit her in the left eye while on international duty), Sophie Ingle was head-and-shoulders the Player of the Match in Chelsea Women’s recent hard-fought WSL game against Man U at Kingsmeadow. Her performance, bossing the crucial space between defence and midfield, was one

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  • Millie scores, Blues triumph!

    Millie scores, Blues triumph!0

    Millie Bright put in a player-of-the-match performance against Birmingham City in Solihull, and scored her first goal of the season, as Chelsea whitewashed the Brummies 6-0… but manager Emma Hayes was not satisfied with several aspects of the team’s display – particularly a long, lean spell in the first half which allowed the home side

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  • Making progress

    Making progress0

    It’s a measure of how far Chelsea have come in the past nine months that instead of losing 6-0 to a rampant Manchester City, they ran the hosts close at the Etihad, taking the lead and matching Pep’s men every step of the way. That February defeat, pictured, still haunts fans, but Saturday’s result –

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