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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

Reflections on a bad night

As the only Ruster to predict a South African victory, I was given the gig of the match report. You have seen the game on TV, read reports in the media – social or conventional press – so there is not match more to add. I will therefore give my impressions on being there and my theory [...]

November 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

The 1964 Tokyo Olympiad

With the Olympics in Tokyo next year, there was much discussion in the party on the 1964 Olympiad there. We Brits produced 4 gold winners (Lynn “The Leap” Davies, Ken Matthews the marathon walker, Ann Packer in the 800m and Mary Rand in athletics and long jump. I argued the case that Mary Rand [...]

November 2, 2019 // 0 Comments

What an experience!

As no doubt our readers are saturated by the coverage of England’s formidable victory I thought I would today give my report on the match experience. The game was played in Yokahama, a city a 30 minute drive without Tokyo’s constricting traffic. The stadium is a modern bowl and we were [...]

October 27, 2019 // 0 Comments

Aspects of the RWC quarters

For all the prowess of England, the All Blacks and South Africa – or maybe better because of it – the only really competitive game yesterday was Wales’ narrow and undeserved victory over France. Manchester United v Liverpool did not live up to hype. My strategy was to follow the build [...]

October 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

A worthy read

Britain has a proud tradition of developing outstanding sports journalists and one of the current crop that I usually find worth reading is Jonathan Liew, currently plying his trade on The Independent. Accordingly I offer a link to his latest piece – on the subject of ‘specially [...]

October 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

Rugby World Cup – Saturday quarter-finals preview

And so to tomorrow morning’s [UK time] two Rugby World Cup quarter-final matches – England v Australia and Ireland against New Zealand. We asked our experts to provide their predictions:   SANDRA McDONNELL: Eddie Jones is a world-class coach and a particularly driven one who takes no [...]

October 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

Blown away

Overnight I was listening to Rhod Sharp’s Up All Night programme on Radio Five Live when it cut at 4.00am (UK time) live and direct to Rugby World Cup press conference at which it was announced that two games on Saturday have been cancelled – one of them the Pool C shoot-out between England and [...]

October 10, 2019 // 0 Comments

Vindication

In a recent article I criticised the World Athletic Championships. Since that time, Lord Coe lambasted Gabby Logan for her interview with a high-ranking official and generally being negative about the staging of the games. After that Alberto Salazar – a good friend of Coe – the coach of [...]

October 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

A “Doh!” moment in Doha

Sharp-eyed Rusters may have noticed our ‘non-coverage’ of the World Athletics Championships currently taking place in Doha, Qatar, over the past few days. No disrespect intended to those dedicated and hard-working individuals who devote themselves to participating in track & field – [...]

October 2, 2019 // 0 Comments

Sports topics

Here’s a brief fly-by of my pick of the sporting issues and stories that caught my eye over the weekend: ROWING Multi-gold medallist James Cracknell undoubtedly ranks as one of the all-time great British rowers, not only resembling a purpose-built Greek god but also possessing every champion’s [...]

September 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

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