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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

No answers – and maybe more questions

It is a fact that in sport – as with everything – life simply goes on, sometimes even as one is looking the other way amidst the dross of supposed ‘news’ stories and careful placements. Rust readers won’t need reminding that British cycling has been suffering this past [...]

October 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

The art of scoring an own goal

Yesterday a little after lunch, at a loose end and completely by chance, I had Sky News playing on the television in the corner of my room whilst tootling around on the internet on my computer when – out of the blue – anchor presenter Kay Burley suddenly announced that coverage was crossing [...]

October 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Sporting Calendar 2018

Yesterday my Economist desk diary arrived containing all manner of statistics, almost all of which I will scarcely read let alone use. However it’s an exciting day for me as I write in the dates of the key sporting events of 2018. At my age I am grateful to be writing anything in at all. 2018 [...]

October 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Going downhill?

In the Rust tradition of bringing our readers’ attention to items of specific or general interest, here are a pair of Sean Ingle articles upon the state of British bobsleighing, as appear today on the website of The Guardian: Reviewing the raft of current issues facing the British [...]

October 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sporting behaviour and team discipline – on or off the pitch

When it comes to sport – one of the main interests of columnists on this website – the Rust has a number of recurring subjects, issues and themes. Currently there’s plenty happening on the world stage – no surprise there – but today I’ve decided to post some personal reflections [...]

October 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Wow! The opening night of a brand new season

The currently-embattled Football Association’s new Women’s Super League season kicked off last night with the female version of a famous ‘city derby’ match between Everton Ladies and Liverpool Ladies played at Widnes. Reports of the match will testify that the match ended in a 0-2 [...]

September 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

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

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