, < Regeneration, < New Start editorial index page Nearly, as any sports fan will tell you, is never good enough. The fact that West Ham nearly won the FA Cup on Saturday may have led to record tallies of commiserations, but it’s no substitute for winning. Followers of English cricket will remember this week’s Lords test match not for a marvellous fightback by Sri Lanka but for a series of missed opportunities. Over five days Andrew Flintoff metamorphosed from swashbuckling hero to incompetent dunderhead. Julian Dobson, editor * New Start Online Online magazine