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Last Leg star’s happy to put his body on the line
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Leicester were superb at Villa Park. Midlands top club by a mile! Maddison superb. Villa need a Premier League manager to move on.. Smith is out of his depth. Wolves somewhere between the two. West Brom doing well and should go up. Brum building slowly. Bellingham looks superb at 16.
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So wot joshua beats up a bag of blubber whos an embarrassment to boxing and now says reason he lost 1st fight was he was ill – bo- - cks. ruiz shouldnt be allowed in a boxing ring which as graced the greats of the sport. frazier ali holmes louis, all of these wud ave retired joshua and ruiz in 2 rounds. bt rochdale
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I’M BEGINNING TO FEAR FOR MY TEAM, BIRMINGHAM WHEN THEY PLAY A VERY GOOD W.B.A SIDE THIS SATURDAY. SHAKIN’ A BIT MORE. TOOLAKER
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Memories of a great MAN Ron Saunders. Embraced villa as THE Villa fans embraced him. One of our own RIP. ANNIE FIELD
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What a season Leicester are having. fantastic owners loved by the fans, a true football club, all the players play for each other, no players thinks their bigger than anybody else or the club. wish my beloved wham could be like that.
wham bob
ADAM HILLS soon learned what he’d let himself in for playing Physical Disability Rugby League.
He got flattened just minutes into his first match for Warrington against Leeds Rhinos.
“This big bloke hit me early, pounded me into the ground and whispered in my ear as he got up, ‘I enjoyed that,’” said the Aussie comedian.
“Leeds came to win and they kind of went, ‘Let’s teach the TV guy a lesson’. I took so many hits.”
Hills, who has one foot, has a documentary charting produced the journey of his Wolves team, from inception through to taking on Russell Crowe’s South Sydney Down Under. The Last Leg star, 49, said: “It’s about a group of guys that were told they could never play the game they love, who then got the chance to play against my boyhood team in the World Club Challenge. “It’s absolutely the maddest thing I’ve done.”
Among them is Dan Phillips, who lost his right leg when he was hit by a truck when cycling. After that bruising opener against Leeds, Phillips had to have his leg re-amputated. “His wife was so worried that she hid his leg,” said Hills. “He probably could have lived his life without having the re-amputation and said, ‘Well, I guess I’m not playing rugby any more.’
“But he had it done as soon as possible so that he could make it to Australia. That is nuts, that’s commitment.”
Hills travels from London every week for training while team-mate Tony Seward comes up from Devon.
Hills added: “I really wasn’t prepared for how much I was going to get out of it personally.
“At first I felt guilty that I was enjoying myself so much, but then one day at training I looked at the guys around me and realised they were getting the same joy out of it as me.
“The whole experience has changed me as a person. As a comedian I’ve never thought of myself as a winner – comics are traditionally losers.”
‘Adam Hills: Take His Legs’ airs on Friday at 11.30pm on Channel 4.