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Welcome to The Luke Alfred Show.
I have 30 years of experience on the front lines of sports journalism, covering some of the biggest games in cricket, rugby, the Fifa World Cup, and even the Olympic Games.
Come and join me, as we learn about the greatest sports stories you’ve never heard.
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The United Rugby Championship Is Like A Netflix Drama
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Apr 27, 2024 |
How I Fell In Love With Sport Part 2
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Apr 20, 2024 |
The Inspiring History Of Women In The Boston Marathon
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Apr 13, 2024 |
A Horse Named Foinavon: The Greatest Upset In Grand National History
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Apr 06, 2024 |
The Lockdown Champs League: Remembering Bayern's Flawless 2020
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Mar 30, 2024 |
How The Springboks Inspired A Boom In SA Club Rugby
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Mar 23, 2024 |
Why Cricket Has Lost It's Magic
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Mar 16, 2024 |
The Fan Who Infiltrated The Man United Team Photo: Karl Power
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Mar 09, 2024 |
Cricket's Most Infamous Ball Tampering Scandal: The Full Sandpaper-Gate Story
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Mar 02, 2024 |
Are Bafana Bafana Finally Good Again?
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Feb 24, 2024 |
James Small: The Springbok Who Died In A Strip Club
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Feb 17, 2024 |
Why South Africa Overachieves In Sport
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Feb 10, 2024 |
Why Financial Fair Play Is Beginning To Bite
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Feb 03, 2024 |
How The First Ever Tied Test Match Came To Be
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Jan 27, 2024 |
The People's Gaffer: The Ange Postecoglou Story
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Jan 20, 2024 |
The Last Springboks: How South Africa Beat Bill Lawry's Aussies
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Jan 13, 2024 |
The Story Of Dean Elgar: Resolute Warrior
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Jan 06, 2024 |
How Newlands Disgraced Jacques Kallis
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Dec 16, 2023 |
The Untold Handré Pollard Story
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Dec 09, 2023 |
The Cult of Lance Armstrong: The Festina Affair and "The Tour of Renewal"
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Dec 02, 2023 |
A Farewell To Quinnie, A South African Legend
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Nov 25, 2023 |
Moneyball: The Most Influential Book in the History of Sport
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Nov 17, 2023 |
The 3 Unluckiest Sportsmen Ever
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Nov 11, 2023 |
We Love The Boks. But They Can’t Save South Africa
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Nov 04, 2023 |
Pelé: The Story Of Football's GOAT
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Oct 28, 2023 |
Boks vs France — Rugby's Nervous Breakdown
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Oct 20, 2023 |
The Best Side To Never Win A World Cup
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Oct 14, 2023 |
The Cricket World Cup Used To Be Pretty Weird
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Oct 07, 2023 |
The Day The Olympics Turned Bloody
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Sep 30, 2023 |
In Praise of Keshav Maharaj
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Sep 24, 2023 |
Billie Jean, Bobby And The 'Battle of the Sexes 2'
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Sep 16, 2023 |
Does The "Spirit Of The Game" Matter In Sport?
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Sep 09, 2023 |
Can The Springboks Win The 2023 World Cup?
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Sep 02, 2023 |
Johan Cruyff: The Man Who Turned Barcelona Upside Down
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Aug 26, 2023 |
Wayde van Niekerk — Faster than the Camera
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Aug 19, 2023 |
34 Seconds that Shook the Rugby World
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Aug 12, 2023 |
1995 World Cup Final — And the Lost Art of Missing Deadlines
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Aug 05, 2023 |
Why The Springboks Mean So Much
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Jul 29, 2023 |
Desiree Ellis and Banyana Banyana's World Cup Journey
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Jul 22, 2023 |
Tom Curren Surfs The J-Bay Avalanche
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Jul 15, 2023 |
The Oarsome Foursome: Rowing's Biggest Upset
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Jul 08, 2023 |
Björn Again: Borg's Bizarre Story
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Jun 30, 2023 |
The Greatest Currie Cup Final Ever
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Jun 24, 2023 |
"The Invincibles," The Greatest Ashes Side Ever
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Jun 17, 2023 |
I was at the Greatest Champions League Final Ever: Istanbul 2005
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Jun 10, 2023 |
From Moscow 1980 to the World Test Champs: Great Sporting Flops
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Jun 03, 2023 |
Behind-the-Scenes with Dobbo’s Stormers
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May 26, 2023 |
A Dive into Manchester City's Surprising History
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May 19, 2023 |
Ipswich Town and the Nine Year-Old Oligarch
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May 12, 2023 |
How World Cup Winner, Joost Van Der Westhuizen, Redefined Scrumhalf Play
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May 05, 2023 |
How I Fell in Love with Sport
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Apr 28, 2023 |
Saving South Africa, the '92 Cricket World Cup
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Apr 22, 2023 |
Aiden, 'Klaasie', and Temba's Big Journey
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Apr 14, 2023 |
Arrigo Sacchi and the "Short Team"
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Apr 07, 2023 |
Are we in the Age of the Ageless Sportsman?
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Apr 01, 2023 |
Muhammad Ali Skates on the Cusp of Farce
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Mar 24, 2023 |
Unknown Stories from West Indies vs South Africa Cricket
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Mar 17, 2023 |
Hansie Cronje: Cricket’s Tragic Hero
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Mar 10, 2023 |
Remembering Clive "The Dog" Barker's '96 AFCON Victory
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Mar 03, 2023 |
How the Sunrisers Found their Fire in the SA20
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Feb 24, 2023 |
The Slow Death of South African Test Cricket
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Feb 17, 2023 |
How an Illiterate Janitor won Olympic gold
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Feb 11, 2023 |
How Bloody Sunday changed Rugby
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Feb 04, 2023 |
The Sad Demise of George Best
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Jan 28, 2023 |