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The end is nigh …

For my last post of 2017 – now in the midst of festive season planning and last minute shopping – I thought I would offer a brief review of where English rugby union has reached after another heady but hectic past twelve months. On the negative front, the Aviva Premiership continues down its [...]

December 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Up yours, you son of a gun! (geddit?)

[I’m rather proud of my headline today – for the slow off the mark, it’s a clever (I think) oblique reference to the rapid-firing Gatling gun – a forerunner of the machine gun – patented by US inventor Richard Gatling on 4th November 1862.] William Boyd as Hopalong [...]

December 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

BBC Sports Personality Of The Year 2017

For my sins, last night I watched the 2017 edition of the BBC’s Sports Personality Of The Year which was broadcast live from the Echo Arena in Liverpool between 6.45pm and 9.00pm on BBC1. I do this every year even though I’m fully aware and accept that it’s no more than a straightforward [...]

December 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Unhappy times

From where I sit in my master control suite surveying the goings on in the world of sport I sometimes reflect upon the debilitating and gradual disengaging effect of creeping age upon a sports fan’s mind. I might have once have called it ‘creeping maturity’ but I’m sufficiently ancient [...]

December 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Over and out – and back to the day job

Friday 15th December 2017: European Champions Cup Rugby Pool 1, Round 4: Ulster v Harlequins at the Kingspan Stadium; Result – Ulster 52 Harlequins 24: Pool standings – Ulster 2nd on 13 points, Harlequins 4th and bottom on 2 points. Almost certain to progress into the knock-out stage La [...]

December 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Kiwi Sport

Yesterday the group arrived at Hawke’s Bay and we are billeted in the charming town/village of Havelock of some 13,000 inhabitants near Napier. It was our first taste of provincial New Zealand. The airport terminal was one building and the baggage reclaim a designated area with no carousel but [...]

December 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

Back to the future, again, I suppose

Sunday 10th December 2017: European Champions Cup 2017/2018: Pool 1 (La Rochelle; Harlequins; Wasps; Ulster) Round 3 match – Harlequins v Ulster at the Stoop, kick-off 1.00pm: Result: Harlequins 5 Ulster 17: Pool positions after Round 3 – Ulster 2nd on 8 points, Harlequins fourth (bottom) on 1 [...]

December 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Birmingham 0

In a scrappy match not unlike the 1-0 victory over Millwall, Fulham at least achieved 3 points, our third home win and a second consecutive clean sheet. Birmingham were a very poor side with nil firepower. Our pleasing but sometimes over-intricate passing game resulted in an early goal when Kebano [...]

December 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

In sport as in life?

Sport is without doubt the most exasperating, mind-expanding, joyous, life-enhancing and wonderful pastime ever gifted to the human race. One might venture to suggest that it makes the world go around. However, as we reach the end of a year in which the extraordinary new US President seems [...]

December 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

World Cup early review

I have not had the chance as yet for a proper conflab with Pargie but I know he is big on France for value as in his view they combine top league experience with the likes of Koscielny, Lloris, Giroud, Schmeidelin, Cabaye, Pogba and Payet, Veraine of Real Madrid and Griezmann of Atletico allied to [...]

December 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

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