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Super Bowel Movement
Wednesday, 1 Feb, 2012 – 11:51 | No Comment
Super Bowel Movement

The Badger is sick of American Football hype

The Badger
Wednesday, 2 Nov, 2011 – 18:53 | Comments Off
The Badger

The Badger hunts his latest prey: John Terry

The Badger Does Darts
Friday, 21 Oct, 2011 – 15:06 | Comments Off
The Badger Does Darts

The Badger unearths the world’s worst sport

The Badger: Winning and Whining
Tuesday, 4 Oct, 2011 – 23:05 | Comments Off
The Badger: Winning and Whining

This week, the Badger turns his beady little eyes on footballs newest villain

The Badger: Getting Boxed Out
Friday, 23 Sep, 2011 – 3:44 | 2 Comments
The Badger: Getting Boxed Out

The Badger is annoyed with boxing, but has a peculiar love for The Muppet Show. Why? Well they’re not quite mops, and they’re not quite puppets, and the Badger shares an undying love for Jim …

The Badger: Blamed for ‘McCleangate’ and other indiscretions!
Tuesday, 12 Apr, 2011 – 14:04 | 2 Comments
The Badger: Blamed for ‘McCleangate’ and other indiscretions!

In his last column of the academic year, the Badger throws caution to the wind and takes no prisoners, mainly because her sett isn’t large enough

The Badger goes to college
Tuesday, 29 Mar, 2011 – 14:01 | Comments Off
The Badger goes to college

Like Mikael Blomkvist, except he’s a Badger, the Badger unearths the systematic mess that is UCD Sports

The Bagder: The Bourne Identity
Tuesday, 1 Mar, 2011 – 14:03 | Comments Off
The Bagder: The Bourne Identity

Back on his game, the Badger details Arsenal’s mini rise, compares rugby to IKEA furniture and vents about his pet-hate sport: cricket

The Badger: Return of the Jedi
Tuesday, 15 Feb, 2011 – 18:01 | Comments Off
The Badger: Return of the Jedi

Grasping at straws to get the headline to fit the article, The Badger somehow sees the Return of the Jedi in football

The Badger: Empire Strikes Back
Tuesday, 1 Feb, 2011 – 14:02 | Comments Off
The Badger: Empire Strikes Back

In the Badger’s second Star Wars-themed column, the Rupert Murdoch empire strikes back and sacks Andy Gray and Richard Keys

The Badger: A New Hope
Tuesday, 18 Jan, 2011 – 14:02 | Comments Off
The Badger: A New Hope

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something tangerine in The Badger’s column this week

The Badger
Tuesday, 21 Sep, 2010 – 14:00 | Comments Off
The Badger

In his long-awaited return from summer obscurity, the Badger takes on footballing divas Henry Winter and Aiden McGeady

Aiden МcГиадй
Ever since the Badger was a young cub, he has dreamed of playing for Spartak Moscow. …

The Badger Awards
Tuesday, 13 Apr, 2010 – 14:00 | Comments Off
The Badger Awards

In true PFA fashion, The Badger hands out his end-of-season awards before the actual climax of the season

The Badger
Tuesday, 13 Apr, 2010 – 14:00 | Comments Off
The Badger

Very likely the final installment of the Badger…

The Badgah, Mate
Tuesday, 30 Mar, 2010 – 14:01 | Comments Off
The Badgah, Mate

No more of The Badger’s articles can be considered for the upcoming Smedia awards, so expect a sharp decline in quality…

The Badger
Tuesday, 2 Mar, 2010 – 14:01 | Comments Off
The Badger

The Badger can dig faster than any human with a shovel. But d’ya know what? Ashley Cole isn’t all that bad at diggin’ holes…

The Badger
Tuesday, 16 Feb, 2010 – 14:01 | Comments Off
The Badger

Hello ladies. Look at your man. Now back to The Badger, now back at your man, now back at the Badger. Sadly, your man isn’t the Badger.

The Badger (Literally)
Tuesday, 2 Feb, 2010 – 14:01 | 5 Comments
The Badger (Literally)

Fear not, John Terry – even if the Badger had a smoking hot wife, two kids and was a father of the year, he’d hit that…