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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

New Zealand All Blacks 37 Wallabies 34

Rarely have I experienced such a dramatic and controversial end to a rugby international. After trailing by 19 points at one stage, the Wallabies came back to 34-32 and – with the klaxon about to sound – the All Blacks mounted their last attack. The French referee Matthieu Reynald [...]

September 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

A pair of sporting realities?

As football’s Premier League competition gets fully under way – already dominating the sporting media headlines day by day, never mind week by week – over the weekend I was left reflecting upon the current state of a couple of other sports whose fortunes are not quite so blessed … [...]

August 22, 2022 // 0 Comments

Is it all black?

One of the interesting aspects of sports coverage is the decline of the great team. Liverpool in the 70s and AC Milan in the 1990s seemed invincible but both sides went into decline – from theirs, Liverpool under Jurgen Klopp have only re-emerged. Manchester United went into decline after [...]

August 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Great Difference

Watching the Charity Shield between Liverpool and Manchester City I was struck by one big difference between the men and women’s game: pace. From the start Liverpool  maximised their pace on the right with Mo Salah and Trent Arnold. Conversely the movement is much slower in the women’s game [...]

July 31, 2022 // 0 Comments

Bravo Lionesses

Firstly contrition. I had not anticipated a glorious summer of sport with no major football competition. Well, we had the rejuvenation of England’s Test side under the captaincy of Ben Stokes and coach Brendan McCallum when they achieved seemingly impossible fourth innings targets to win; we had [...]

July 28, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sporting this and that

On the way from St Andrews to Gleneagles I asked our driver to take us to Tannadice Road Dundee which houses not one but two football stadia 200 yards apart – these being the homes, respectively, of Dundee (Dens Park) and Dundee United (Tannadice). Dundee Utd under Jim McLean in the 1980s had [...]

July 20, 2022 // 0 Comments

Moving day

Yesterday St. Andrews showed its teeth and bit. All those predictions of the sluggers beating up a defenceless course proved as wayward as Dustin Johnson’s 17th hole pitch to the green. I took up a position in the 17th grandstand where you have a perfect view of the road hole, can see the players [...]

July 17, 2022 // 0 Comments

Saturday TV sport

Rather like the modern type of restaurant that serves tables all morning, afternoon, evening and night – during which time service declines – the televised sport I watched yesterday got worse as it went on. The best was indubitably Ireland’s first ever rugby union victory over the All [...]

July 10, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sporting pictures in the mind

For what it’s worth – despite my Rust editorial responsibilities – I have to confess that my original plan for yesterday afternoon had not involved sport at all. There was plenty of it going on – the women’s rugby league international between England and France, the rugby union [...]

June 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Premiership play offs

Yesterday I watched both Premiership Rugby semi-finals, the first Saracens v Harlequins in the company of Derek Williams. We are both fully paid up members of TV-watching as opposed to the stadium attending. We enjoyed the build up with some toasted panini and San Pellegrino Limonatas. In fact the [...]

June 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

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