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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

Another sporting round-up

Another sporting week as we approach the British summer and inevitably some of the old Rust chestnuts come to the fore. Here’s a pot pourri of those that caught my eye recently:   PERFORMANCE-ENHANCING DRUGS With the Commonwealth Games on Australia’s Gold Coast about to begin we [...]

April 4, 2018 // 0 Comments

Ball tampering scandal

The ball tampering scandal has been well covered here and elsewhere. I will therefore only add one point. The common denominator in match-fixing and now ball-tampering  is to get a young, malleable patsy to do it. Cameron Bancroft, who had a poor Ashes, was both young and expendable. Herschell [...]

March 28, 2018 // 0 Comments

Par for the course?

Let’s be honest – cheating in order to gain victory has always been part of life, not just sport – whether it’s insider dealing, doping to either improve or hinder performance, ‘getting away with stuff’ when the match officials aren’t watching or can be [...]

March 25, 2018 // 0 Comments

Olympiastadion

It was eerie visiting the Olympic Park on a rainy day as there was almost no one there. It’s now used as a concert venue – Bayern played their  last game there in 2005 and moved to the Allianz Arena. Their fans wanted a noisier atmosphere and to be nearer the pitch The 1972 Olympiad [...]

March 15, 2018 // 0 Comments

The Allianz Arena

Yesterday I made the tour of the Allianz Arena home of Bayern Munich. It’s a fifteen-minute drive from the centre of the motorway near the main BMW sales office. You see what looks like a giant padded football from distance. Our guide explained that the facade is composed of 4,756 unique panels [...]

March 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

And so, the final curtain …

Now just six days away from its conclusion, the 2018 version – already won by Ireland – of the annual Six Nations tournament has yet again provided a welcome early spring diversion for both devotees of rugby union and general sports fans. As with all of the physical contact variety, [...]

March 12, 2018 // 0 Comments

Two great amateurs pass on

I was sad to see the passing of Sir Roger Bannister and Hubert Doggart. I can claim a personal connection with both. Sir Roger attended the same Oxford College, Exeter, as my uncle Paul and at the same time. I broached this with Sir Roger a few years ago. He said he remembered my uncle as “a [...]

March 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

Drug-taking in sport – a comment

As regular readers will be aware, one of the guiding principles of the Rust‘s editorial policy – indeed some might say its purpose for being – is that we leave straight reporting and journalism to the professionals who (for the most part!) do it better than we do anyway … [...]

March 6, 2018 // 0 Comments

Well, whaddya know? ….

More reports on one of our hardy perennials – performing-enhancing drug taking in sport. See here for links to three reports in The Guardian by the excellent Martha Kelner, two of them upon cycling’s Team Sky – SKY ONE and SKY TWO – and the last upon our dear old friend LORD [...]

March 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

Drugs and sport

Report as appears today upon the website of – THE [...]

February 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

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