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Joy for Pardew as Rémy hits winner
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Snodgrass strike lifts Hughton spirit
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Opinion: Sam Wallace
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Hodgson pleased with route to Euros
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Jackson’s crew falls short in bobsleigh
John Jackson fell 0.11sec short of snatching the medal that would have made these Britain’s most successful Winter Olympics. Jackson’s four-man bobsleigh crew failed to add a fifth medal, finishing fifth at the Sanki Sliding Centre yesterday. MORE
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