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Bob Woolmer

CSI Jamaica ends Bob Woolmer affair

Wednesday, 13th June 2007 at 4:33 pm

Yes, most of the police were too pre-occupied by the cricket to pay much attention, and yes, the timing (right after Pakistan had been spectacularly eliminated from the World Cup) suggested the possibility of an unnatural end. But the handling …

Carlos Alberto Parreira Chad

Good start for Parreira

Sunday, 25th March 2007 at 4:12 pm

It wasn’t the glamorous location you’d imagine a multi-million dollar football signing to be making the debut for his new team in - a dusty field in Chad, in a stadium that could be kindly dubbed rustic. But Carlos Alberto …

Bob Woolmer

Bob Woolmer’s mystery killer

Friday, 23rd March 2007 at 11:55 pm

Speculation had mounted the moment that Bob Woolmer was found dead in his hotel room, but with the news now official that it wasn’t a natural departure, conjecture has run rife. Strangled in his room, apparently with little sign of …

Bob Woolmer

The world mourns Bob Woolmer

Tuesday, 20th March 2007 at 10:31 am

Two days on, and it’s still completely surreal: Pakistan lose sensationally to Ireland in one of cricket’s more outrageous upsets, and less than 24 hours later, with his team knocked out of the World Cup, Bob Woolmer is found dead …

Duncan Fletcher

Duncan Fletcher uncut

Thursday, 22nd February 2007 at 3:33 pm

He may coach England, but the man who famously captained Zimbabwe to victory over Australia in the 1983 World Cup, and later coached Western Province, still counts Cape Town as home, and (for a few days at least) he’s back …

Bob Woolmer

Internet pin-up boy

Friday, 26th January 2007 at 1:01 pm

How does a plump, middle-aged, bespectacled Englishman get a million hits a month on his website? When said Englishman is Indian-born Bob Woolmer, the former coach of South Africa, now looking after Pakistan. His website is an online temple for …