Sport for the hell of it

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• Proposition Nine

  SOME waited more than an hour to get near the voting machines. One man went to his polling place every couple of hours, found the queue longer than ever, and demanded: "What are you
  showing- The Godfather ?"

  par William Davis
• Introducing ... the Third Kind of sport

  Once upon a time there were two kinds of sport, professional and amateur . The professionals did it for money, the amateurs for fun. Now professionalism has become big-time show-biz, and amateurism has turned into a gruelling fulltime business. Most of us don't have the time or money to become a fully qualified amateur. We go into sport for the hell of it. We don't get on TV, or get into the sport ages. This issue of Punch is devoted tous, the real sportsmen. Which kind are you?

• Can Football be Fun at the Top?

  Derek Dougan is the on/y footballer to have achieved the treble of playing for Wolves, captaining Northern lreland and writing his own articles himself.

• The Younger the y are, the Harder they Play

  KEITH WATERHOUSE on the games that adults never see

  par Keith Waterhouse
• Stanley

  Continuing the adventures of the Great Palaeolithic Hero

  par Murray Ball
• Seaside Arena

  Bill Tidy thinks seaside sports are only true British games left and once scored twenty-five goals before declaring at lunch. His main ambition is to kick sand on someone's eyes.

  par Bill Tidy
• None but the Brave Deserves the Fair

  Three times a year, decathlete ALAN COREN takes on the world. This is his story

  par Alan Coren
• The Great Indoors

  Dawn snake and up ladder with MILES KINGTON

  par Miles Kington
• Sea Fever

  "Remember that crump at the traffic lights ?"

  par Thelwell
• Hardcastle

  There's a deathless prose in the close tonight