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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

This sporting life

Amidst the endless weirdness of these strange times, it seems to me that some of the Government’s decisions within its £300 million emergency support funding for eleven UK sports seriously affected by the pandemic – as regards restrictions upon fans permitted to attend matches/events in [...]

November 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

My sporting weekend

The best sport I watched this weekend was by chance the Tri Nation’s rugby international in which Australia beat New Zealand 24-22. I was surprised to see a crowd of over 30,000 in the Brisbane stadium which made me think how much they add to the spectacle. Brisbane has a significant nunber of [...]

November 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

Pause for reflection

Yesterday for my sins I spent time at my computer with Good Morning Britain – ITV’s early morning magazine show – on this occasion featuring its supposed ‘box-office couple’ presenters Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid, providing ‘moving wallpaper’ accompaniment in the background. By [...]

November 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

Giving praise where it’s due

I am no particular fan of BT Sport football coverage. Jake Humphreys, their number two presenter, does not float my boat – nor their chief one, Gary Lineker. However I have always liked James Richardson who hosts a show on Champions League night.  Richardson cut his teeth on Channel 4 in the [...]

October 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

Real Madrid 2 Shakhtar Donetsk 3

Last night I had a serendipitous moment. It was 6-30 pm. I was neither hungry nor fancied a sundowner. It was one of those pandemic moments when it was necessary to while away the time. So I switched on the telly and the channel was BT Sport. They were showing Real Madrid v Shakhtar Donetsk. Given [...]

October 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

Sporting interviews

There are three types of sporting interviews – those that promote a book, those that promote themselves and those that choose to reveal. The Times yesterday had examples of each. Jamie Redknapp is bringing about a book this week. Aged 47,  it is about his career. It’s familiar stuff [...]

October 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

Where we are now (again)

For those of us who love it, the world of sport as an industry and pastime that has been affected at least as badly as any other during the coronavirus pandemic crisis. In an universe of infinite amounts of unknows and uncertainty – like all species – the human race craves fixed points, [...]

October 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

The future of sport – discuss

As yesterday at 11.00am we watched Sir Patrick Vallance and Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty do their Two Ronnies act scaring the heebie-jeebies out of the UK general public with their presentation on the gathering storm of a second “Covid-19” wave of infections and deaths from 10 [...]

September 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

Coming to terms with Tempus Fugit

There can scarcely be a Ruster alive who missed the big event of the weekend – the seismic, life-changing news that the BBC has axed chairperson of its iconic but safe and cuddly peak-time evening sports quiz programme A Question Of Sport (Sue Barker) and its two captains (Matt Dawson and Phil [...]

September 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

It’s a changing world we live in

Today I return to a Rust regular – the eternal wrangle over whether attending a sporting occasion in the flesh (as part of the crowd ‘on the day’) provides a superior experience to that of remaining at home and watching the same event, match or tournament on television or e.g. perhaps by live [...]

September 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

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