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HELLO, how’s your week been? Mine has been taken up with a raft of sport, from grassroots rugby and netball to Test match cricket via the Premier League, League Two and academy football.
As the heatwave continued, I raced from the very excellent North Herts Rugby and Netball Festival last Saturday — kudos to Hitchin women’s rugby side as well as Letchworth women for their various triumphs — to Arsenal v Leicester via selling the first issue of this season’s Gooner Fanzine.
To say it was hot was an understatement, so a big well done to all those who took part in such great-quality grassroots sport, I sweated profusely as the afternoon went on, and I was only flogging copies standing on the street.
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