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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

Sport – and the same old, same old …

No apologies as today I revisit two of the Rust’s favourite vexed sporting subjects, corruption and performance-enhancing drugs. THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT Today the UK media’s ‘back pages’ – okay, European football apart – are full of reports about the IOC ceremony celebrating the award of [...]

September 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

The art of earning respect

As any fule no (reference Nigel Molesworth, the fictitious character invented by Geoffrey Willians, first appearance in Down With Skool (1953), illustrations by Ronald Searle of St Trinians fame, public recitations of which by our deputy headmaster were a staple of Saturday afternoons from about [...]

September 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

Records are only records

Comparing great sportsmen of different eras is a parlour game that all sports fans have indulged in from time to time – and will do as long as sport remains a human pastime. It’s sometimes held to be the case that statistics cannot lie, but then you have to check out which statistics you’re [...]

September 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

Picking your way through a minefield

For those Rusters who are either mad about watching sport on television and/or are miffed by the fact that – on the face of it – they may seem always to be paying through the nose for the privilege of watching say 25 TV channels maximum via the broadcasting organisations deliberately [...]

September 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

My topic was a false start

In following the Rust’s stance of principle against the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport, I have made use of a nose-peg and a healthy pinch of salt each time before tuning in to the World Athletics Championships now drawing to a close at the London Stadium. There are so many things [...]

August 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

On London – and Bolt reaching the finishing line

Since last Friday evening from time to time I have dipped in to the BBC television coverage of the 2017 Athletics World Championships being staged at the former London 2012 Olympic Stadium, now renamed the London Stadium and primarily used as the home venue of the Premiership soccer team West Ham [...]

August 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

A July sporting round-up

This morning, for the second day running, I awoke and spent the morning going about my usual business whilst feeling rather ‘empty’ and hard done by. Fortunately I didn’t need to be Einstein to work out why. After Wimbledon followed by the sporting extravaganza that was the back end of last [...]

July 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

Time to hang up your boots?

Seeing Ernie Els perform so well yesterday in the Open aged 46 having won the Claret Jug in his forties I wondered about getting “over the hill” in different sports. In golf a player never really knows whether he has another major or in the case of Ricky Fowler, Lee Westwood and before [...]

July 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

They’re coming, so embrace them or miss out …

Here are two more recommended reads for Rust adherents on the general subject of the future of global sport, not that many of our demographic (including me) will know a great deal about the never-ending array of technological developments being readily embraced by the generations following ours! [...]

July 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

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