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The 2011 World Angling Championships
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 Italy savours a sweet victory
A look back at day 2 of the Championship
What this victory meant in Italy can only be seen and measured in how the team and their followers celebrated during and after the presentation ceremony. If Spinadesco could have been laid to rest, it was certainly Ostellato that achieved it, although the measure of the 'Azzuri's' dominance seemed, with hindsight, to be slightly misplaced. Holland ran them very close on day one and Hungary matched them on day two. So where did it go right, or wrong, for the other top nations? ... READ MORE
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 Italy finish strongest but Dutch snap at their heels!
A first day's appraisal
“Revenge is a dish best served cold” could be applied to Italy's emphatic victory on home soil after their appalling failure against England in what was the graveyard of Spinadesco! 'Revenge'... in as much as they didn't just beat England, this time they brushed them aside as if they where not there. 'Served cold'... they had to wait a few years to do it, THREE in fact...READ MORE
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 intropic1971Deja Vu perhaps?
Steve Martin found himself during the first day of competition in the far-away section A, which all practice week had shown to be the best place to draw. It did not disappoint and he reports on some hectic action from this area of River Guadiana. He even recalled similarities with another World Championship he attended, almost 10 years earlier... READ MORE
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 When you're hot... you're HOT!
And we don't mean the weather, although with 40° plus temperatures and little shade in some of the sections, you could be forgiven for thinking that. In reality, it was more to do with England's performance on a tricky venue in Spain... READ MORE
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 Will the Real Drennan Team England take a bow!
Steve Martin looks at this year's World Championships in Spain from a different angle. He explains how Team Drennan England's success, was not only about the five guys fishing on the bank, but rather the backup they received behind them and just how significant its support became... READ MORE
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 Practice makes 'Perfect'
Steve Martin takes a look back on the final few days of practice on Spain's River Guadiana in Merida, where it had been proving a challenge for the 32 teams entered in this year's World Championships... READ MORE
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 Who did, or didn't, get it RIGHT - Part Two
From what I have also been able to understand, there were signs pointing to some of the big favourites making catastrophic errors of judgement, some forced, others unforced. Easily done if you review past internationals. Even England are sometimes not immune from the 'Ignominy of Error'… READ MORE
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