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About Tom Hollingworth

Tom Hollingsworth is a former deputy sports editor of the Daily Express. For many years he worked in a sports agency, representing mainly football players and motor racing drivers. Tom holds a private pilot’s licence and flying is his principal recreation. More Posts

A sporting conundrum

There’s one thing I’d wish to assure regular Rusters who might be labouring under a misapprehension on the point – and that is that we don’t just sit around all day in our ‘virtual editorial offices’ actively trying to dream up new subjects upon which to begin serial debates or [...]

February 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

Another Moses who came down from the mountain …

Ed Moses, now 64, is indisputably one of the all-time greats of track and field – and also one of my favourite sporting heroes partly because of his extraordinary achievements and partly because of his physique and personality. A quite different character to Muhammad Ali, perhaps the all-time [...]

February 7, 2020 // 0 Comments

The tribulations of switching careers

Though his success in both his careers – footballer and TV host/presenter – is undeniable, I have never personally warmed to Gary Linker. Well, save for the time he made those gestures – caught vividly on the TV cameras – to England manager Bobby Robson on the bench during the 4th July [...]

January 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

Test coverage

Once upon a time in the good old days of TMS, lengthy breaks in play were greeted with pleasure as the team could sustain a discussion on all matters cricket for hours on end. The modern broadcaster cannot so they have to pad out with replays of interviews, of the match and/or any other match. [...]

January 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

I suppose you could (just) make it up

Following Sandra McDonnell’s piece in the Rust touching upon the Saracens scandal engulfing rugby’s English Premiership, here is a link to a piece by Robert Kitson that appears today upon the website of – THE [...]

January 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

Of mice and supermen

As we enter the full-on festive season bombarded in the media by informed choices of 2019’s highlights in every walk of life and salutes to those high-achieving or notable individuals “who left us” during the past twelve months, today I wanted to pen few words upon one of the latter. Reading [...]

December 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

Let us go forward into a brave new world

… And, yes, it’s welcome back to what some openly refer to as “Misogynists’ Corner” – viz. the sports pages of the Rust. Yesterday my papers and the media were full of the brilliant performance of one Farron Sherrock who made history of sorts by becoming the first woman to beat a man [...]

December 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

Sports Personailty of the Year…ugh

If you are expecting an appreciation of Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY) stop reading now. I had no intention of watching if and this is why. 1. The BBC has very few sports rights and almost every sequence will bear the logo of another broadcaster. Once the BBC could no longer showcase SPOTY [...]

December 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

Sporting nations that punch beyond their weight

This article appeared in the sports section of the Telegraph on a theme covered by our Rusters whilst in Japan – New Zealand – a sporting behemoth It made me think of other countries that one would not historically link with sporting achievement. Bern Wiseberger This seems to go in [...]

November 28, 2019 // 0 Comments

Tough times when you want to know what’s what …

These days it’s perhaps simultaneously both healthy and damned disappointing that in the 21st Century the safest approach for the average member of the public is to reach for a large pinch of salt when analysing everything they see or hear. Whether it’s anything that US President Trump manages [...]

November 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

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