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Sport: Saturday clockwatch - live!

Source: The Guardian

Nov 07, 2009

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Kick back and let the auto-refresh tool take the strain. Or, if you're an old-school nerd, get frisky with F5. Either way, email your thoughts to rob.smyth@guardian.co.uk

Rob Smyth will be hurting his eyes by following five Premier League games, the first round of the FA Cup, and England v Australia from 1.30pm. In the meantime, heeeeeeeeeerre's Paul Hayward on Jonny's comeback:

This England rugby camp would flummox a Twickenham regular returning from a long tour of space. There is a young wing called Matt Banahan whose tattoos include half a Spitfire (his brother sports the other half) and falling bombs; Steve Thompson is back from retirement and the alehouse to resume at hooker and "trust" has replaced "interactive rugby" and "fronting up" as this season's buzz phrase.

In a game of "gym monkeys", as the recuperating lock Simon Shaw describes it, the roll call of absent stars says that mutually assured destruction is the aspiration in a collision-obsessed age. But just as you are contemplating the Blitz aesthetic of Banahan's body art, a door opens and the gild

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