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  DESPITE the unbeaten run at the end of 2012, the natural pessimist in all North East sports fans spoke loudest to me at the start of this season and made the victory over perennial nearly men Somerset all that sweeter, as if it were a glorious victory against the odds.
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  I DISTINCTLY remember being stood in the Fulwell End at dear old Roker Park, watching a game against Ipswich in conditions which were approaching a blizzard, as snow periodically built up on the roof before falling avalanche-like onto the poor souls stood at the front.
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           <title>Draw from the jaws of defeat</title>
           
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           <title>Is the 2011 Durham side up for the battle?</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[BACK in the halcyon days of 2005, Durham managed to escape the second division of the County Championship under the captaincy of Mike Hussey and his deputy Paul Collingwood, leading both men and the club on a meteoric rise culminating in caps and trophies galore.]]></description>
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           <title>Attempting to wring any positives out</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[AS THE season limped to an inevitably lacklustre conclusion against Somerset, there was a depressing sense among most Durham fans that they'd much rather write this season off as a job badly done and try to eke some positives out of the whole depressing affair.]]></description>
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           <title>Yet another false dawn on horizon?</title>
           
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  WITH Twenty20 banished to the corner of the memory, like some kind of inexplicable naughty dog blamed for ills which were in no small part self-inflicted, this was the week that had been
  triple-ringed in red on the calendar as the time in which Durham were going to turn their season round and kick on to September glory, charging down the final straight like Kelly Holmes fired from
  a trebuchet carrying news of victory and inexplicable mixed metaphors.
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           <title>When the hurly burly's done - time for a rethink</title>
           
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           <title>Tedium of Twenty20 ends this weekend - at last</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[MANY decades ago, it was possible for sportsmen to be an England international at both cricket and football, before clubs became protective of their players and the spirit of professionalism meant that the sports seemed forever separated.]]></description>
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           <title>The good, the bad and the ugly sides of Twenty20</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[THE elusive and oft-discussed 'spirit of cricket' and what relevance it has on the game in post-Stanford age was writ large during Durham's spirited and controversial defeat to Nottinghamshire.]]></description>
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           <title>From also-rans to real contenders</title>
           
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           <title>From the sublime to the ridiculous</title>
           
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           <title>Did Durham overreact with Smith?</title>
           
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           <title>Keep calm and carry on is Durham message</title>
           
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           <title>University match welcome distraction</title>
           
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           <title>Cold start to Durham's title defence</title>
           
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           <title>Life's a Cabaret on Durham's Abu Dhabi jolly</title>
           
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