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Finally – an oasis after an ocean of desert sand

Saturday 25th March 2017: Aviva Premiership Round 18 – Harlequins v Newcastle Falcons at the Stoop, kick-off 3.00pm: Result: Harlequins 53 Newcastle Falcons 17: Harlequins 5 league points (1 bonus for scoring 4 tries), now 6th in the table on 47 points, 1 behind Bath who play Saracens away today [...]

March 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

Going to the dogs

Evolve or die. Stuff happens. In the race of sporting life there are always winners and losers. You must constantly change and develop. An ambition to stay the same is actually one to keep going backwards. We have addressed such sporting issues on the Rust with perception and regularity over the [...]

March 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Here we go again (or do we?)

To be honest with you I physically watched only about 2 minutes’ worth of this week’s England ‘friendly’ match football 0-1 loss against Germany in Dortmund and even this was not for a sporting reason. Having spent the bulk of the afternoon glued to the box absorbing the [...]

March 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Arsene of the Arsenal?

I have no particular allegiance to the Arsenal though I have several friends who are fanatics. I have viewed the final reign of Arsenal Wenger with interest but indignation too. Some time ago wiseacres were saying that he had the right to determine when he would go. This is plainly nonsense and [...]

March 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report : Fulham 1 Wolves 3

Fulham are the Arsenal of the Championship with our passing game so pleasant on the eye but ineffective against teams who scrap. Harold Wilson famously observed that a week is a long time in politics, it certainly is at Fulham. A week ago we beat league Newcastle 3-1 then only achieved 1 point from [...]

March 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

A Test match worthy of the name

For those Rust readers who watched it – perhaps ‘because they were there’, or on TV (whether in company, or just with family sitting at home) – there is no need this morning to report upon the detail of yesterday’s 13-9 Ireland victory over England in the Six Nations [...]

March 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Moving it forward without leaving it behind

The Rust is proud of its reputation as one of the world’s leading observers and commentators upon the key issues facing elite global sports – performance-enhancing drugs; corruption; rampant commercialism; the pros and cons of armchair TV sports-watching versus actually ‘being [...]

March 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

This and that

Like many, though not as devotedly as Ivan Conway and Alan Tanner, I am following the Championship with interest particularly the race for the play-offs which is boiling up nicely. Last night Huddersfield in 3rd place played lowly Bristol City and Reading in 5th went to Sheffield Wednesday 6th. My [...]

March 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Here we go!

For Northern Hemisphere fans the this year’s annual Six Nations finale on Saturday – three matches culminating in England’s attempt at securing consecutive Grand Slams and a word record 19 international victories in a row against Ireland in Dublin – is going to be a rugby [...]

March 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

A few days in London

I arrived from Florence at the start of the week. I stayed at the Copthorne Hotel, Stamford Bridge where the Manchester United players were too for the FA Cup quarter final. In Italy only Juventus own their own stadium so you would never see such a complex of 2 hotels, restaurants and bars within a [...]

March 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

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