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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

Super Bowl 2025

The Super Bowl poses many challenges. To the viewer, he/she must – if he/she wants to see it live – stay awake between the hours of 11.30pm and 3-30am. As it’s mainly an event, rather than a sporting spectacle of competitiveness, the commentary must cater for the casual as well as the [...]

February 11, 2025 // 0 Comments

England 26 France 25 (Six Nations)

England confounded the negativity of the Press in the build-up by not collapsing in the final quarter but by winning in the dying embers. In truth it was not a great game of rugby. France dominated the first half but made some dreadful errors. Marcus Smith’s kicking was not reliable off the [...]

February 9, 2025 // 0 Comments

France 44 Wales 0 (Six Nations)

France opened the Six Nations with a resounding victory over Wales. The only negative in an impressive performance was the upgraded red card given to Romain Ntamack which might put the fly half – only recently returned from a long injury lay-off – out for a sizeable part of the rest of [...]

February 1, 2025 // 0 Comments

Match of the Day new presenters

Alex Jay-Kerski’s (BBC Director of Sport) garlanding of the three new Match Of The Day presenters (Kelly Cates, Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman) reminded me of the line in the John Betjeman poem The Village Inn. Here the virtues of the modernisation of the local pub are extolled by the Brewer’s [...]

January 18, 2025 // 0 Comments

My Sporting Weekend

The Border-Gavaskar trophy between Australia and India has done much to enhance and elevate the status of Test cricket. India won the First Test in Perth – Australia levelled the series in Adelaide – and the Third Test in Brisbane was a washout draw. Australia won the Fourth Test in [...]

January 5, 2025 // 0 Comments

Man Utd: can they come back?

Students of history will know that the surprising factor is not that empires decline but that they last for so long. It’s not different in sport. Manchester Utd took a long time – and tried numerous managers – before achieving success after Matt Busby. Liverpool dominated the [...]

November 29, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Rugby weekend

Harlequins have always operated a productive academy and one of the greatest supporter’s joys in any sport is the emergence of youth talent. Thus on Friday night I watched with utmost interest the game on the Premiership Cup – yet another competition – between Quins and Ealing [...]

November 10, 2024 // 0 Comments

Rugby union’s medical crisis

In the context of moves in both the northern and Southern Hemispheres towards a global rugby union season – and a slew of potential (increasingly radical) changes in the laws of the game apparently being floated that might make it more spectator/viewer-friendly and thereby more profitable [...]

October 22, 2024 // 0 Comments

Premiership rugby v Premiership Football

Yesterday I watched Leicester Tigers v Gloucester Rugby (26-24) and Liverpool v Chelsea (2-1). Before the latter game Pargie called to say that the odds were favourable to back against Liverpool and a wager enlivens the game. I decided to watch from a different perspective, namely which offered the [...]

October 21, 2024 // 0 Comments

The state of Rugby Union in England

It is a well-known fact that the sport of Rugby Union across the board is in plenty of financial and other trouble at the moment. There is talk of making it a “summer sport” in the UK – and even the floating of the idea of it trying to create a merger with Rugby League in order to [...]

September 26, 2024 // 0 Comments

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