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UFC is a whole new ball game

Last night, having got up in the wee hours to go upon my computer and organised to have the BBC’s television coverage of the Olympics on in the background, I happened to notice a report upon one of the newspaper websites that they would be providing live updates upon the grudge rematch UFC (mixed [...]

August 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report/ Fulham 2 Cardiff 2.

Fulham could not produce the same level of performance of their first three matches and in the end were more than satisfied to earn a  point in this 2-2 draw with Cardiff. Cardiff, managed by Fulham old boy Paul Trollope, an early Ray Wilkins/Kevin Keegan signing at the beginning of the Al Fayed [...]

August 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Don’t hold your breath, anyone …

Saturday 20th August 2016. The Stoop, Twickenham. Second and final official pre-season match: Harlequins v Glasgow Warriors. Result – Harlequins 22 Glasgow Warriors 17. These days the Harlequins club chooses to call its season ticket holders ‘members’ and bombards them with emails and [...]

August 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Equestrian gold: expert view

Yesterday afternoon was my admin session with Polly. She was held up at the dentist and I started to watch the equestrian event knowing she would want to watch this. I was soon absorbed and when she arrived my enjoyment was enhanced by her expert knowledge of the sport. Dressed in smart livery, the [...]

August 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Olympics watching

There is another way of watching the Olympics other than staying up all night which I know a fellow Ruster and I adopt – namely to go to bed at 9 and arise in the early hours. Yesterday morning at 3am I settled down for the woman’s 68 kg freestyle wrestling contested between Dosho of [...]

August 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

BO66Y

Last night I watched the dvd of Bo66y a documentary produced by Matt Lorenzo to celebrate the 50th anniversary of World Cup victory. Matt Lorenzo and his father before him are massive West Ham fans so I did not expect anything too critical. I did expect to learn something I did not know but long [...]

August 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Buying a pup

Yesterday I was called by the trainer of my greyhound to say that after a couple of months of treatment and rest for a tendon injury he was now irretrievably lame. He would never run again. For sometime I thought I had in every sense bought a pup. I never thought that I had acquired a dog that [...]

August 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sussex close to victory

Sussex CCC have only won one match all season drawing the other eight. League leaders Essex have lost two but won three. Still with six games left after this match against Gloucestershire and with Sussex having a game in hand a late winning run would mean promotion. Sussex had Gloucestershire [...]

August 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

The ‘art’ of political correctness

For good or ill, we live in a politically-correct world. I say that because it seems to me there are both plusses and minuses to asserting the right of groups of human beings not to be discriminated against – not least that, when you get down to the bottom line and specific matters of principle [...]

August 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

A Golden Streak

On  Friday I backed Anthony Knockaert to be Brighton’s first goal scorer in Brighton v Nottingham Forrest, I would have had 6 successful soccer tickles on Saturday had I betted as intended against Middlesbrough  v Stoke. I was  back on track with the winner Ryan Moore in the John Deere. [...]

August 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

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