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The stupendous language of sport

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Ian Holloway

The language used to describe sport is a creative focus of cliche, over-extended metaphor and superfluous simile.

Sport correspondent Tim Franks investigates sport talk with the help of Ian Holloway and Eric Morecambe.


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