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Article: Team spirits from beyond the grave
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 31, 2009
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The Last Word
It's not often that The Last Word falls on Halloween - roughly
every seven years, in fact - so I've been racking my brains for some
suitably ghoulish material. I'm not aware of ghosts, phantoms,
poltergeists etc playing a particularly significant role in sport,
the zombie-like state currently afflicting the Everton defence
notwithstanding. But there are plenty of supernatural themes in
sporting fiction, albeit mainly American fiction. Field of Dreams
had a ghostly voice telling Kevin Costner to build a ballpark on his
farm, and there's a comedy called The Sixth Man in which a college
basketball player dies on court of a heart attack, then comes back
in spirit form to help his ...