Ms Clark was running the line in front of almost 45, 000 fans at Ibrox, quite different from the crowd of 200 supporters at the junior match she refereed last weekend.

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It went so wrong that emergency steps had to be taken to match junior doctors with hospital training places this summer.

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When Rikidozan, the pro-wrestling world champion, came to Kyoto for a match, the Rakunan Junior High band was invited by the Kyoto City Hall to march all over downtown to play welcoming music.

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Last year, he became the first U.S. junior champion in decades to win a match in the main draw.

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In the same week as the main match at Celtic Manor, the Junior Ryder Cup will be at Gleneagles in Scotland.

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He was most recently a striker for junior club Bathgate Thistle, and played for them against Motherwell in a friendly match last week.

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Kennedy opened the batting and top scored with 60 before Collins, eight years his junior, ripped though the Sri Lankan middle order to win man of the match award for his 5-24.

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To match his mother's pre-marriage life, Mr Lanchester junior draws the early years of his father, who was dispatched to Australia for schooling while his parents settled into colonial life in Hong Kong.

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