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Your support makes all the difference.WINNERS
Football
with the emergence of the Dutch as true sons of their national game at Anfield on Wednesday.
Leicester City FC
who went a full week without losing a manager (if only because they haven't got one).
Mark Ilott
for responding to the "he's mediocre" criticisms of one TV critic after another with three wickets in two overs in the Durban Test.
Paul Grayson
who was the one bright spot of England's dull afternoon at Twickenham.
Glenn Hoddle
who at last seems to be turning his Chelsea side into a serious passing attraction.
LOSERS
Darren Gough
injured and left out of the third Test, and seemingly incapable of recovering his infectious and successful ebullience.
Oxford University
who were denied a famous Varsity match win by a contentious refereeing decision and an injury-time try at Twickenham.
Murray Walker
the Formula One commentator who turned on his car radio to discover that the BBC had lost the contract to cover grand prix races from May 1997.
Les Ferdinand
who was substituted against Portugal and seems destined never to be a first choice for England.
Jack Rowell
yet more talk of dynamic England followed by yet another leaden-footed (and handed) display.
Alan Hansen
whose "hard man of the pundits" image was shattered by his wide-eyed salivating at the Dutch display on Wednesday.
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