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By the time I got back to the car I felt I had yomped across the Falklands and back again.

No sooner is it mooted that Jimmy Hill's famous ditty should be ditched, than we're crushed by Crewe, yomped over by Yeovil and hijacked by Huddersfield.

No, I joined the Royal Marines and yomped everywhere!

The Commando 'yomped' across East Falkland in mid-winter, carrying extraordinary loads and little food before fighting and winning a night battle on the Two Sisters, one of the key hills around Port Stanley.

In the Falklands war Royal Marines yomped across the island, covering 60 miles in three days.

On a foul, wind-and-rainswept Tuesday night, more than 100 Walsall fans yomped down to south Somerset.

The realitywas that the SAS yomped across the rain-sodden landscape, so unloved we'd been trying to give it away for years, and defeated a rag-taggle band of under-armed, frightened, teenage conscripts.

Far from being the eighth wonder of the world, we found it totally impersonal, the Iberia staff were unable or unwilling to tell us anything about our delayed flight and I yomped miles to find a water fountain and some food.

Tired and dripping with sweat, Harry yomped across the Ashdown Forest in East Sussex for eight hours yesterday.

Having yomped recently through 16 volumes of theologian Karl Rahner's work and the large volumes of Balthasar, it surprised me how they had been polarised as starting from God's manifestation or desire for God's coming.

The former Gladiators contestant and Royal Marine has yomped his way to the top of the world rankings, though his form in the past month has deserted him.

Fearless Jen Jennson SWAM two miles to shore, SCALED a 180-ft cliff and YOMPED a mile over rough moorland.