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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

Oooops!

We recently featured a short piece on UK Sport’s refusal to change its mind on the appeals over its Olympics sports-funding policy decisions in which, given the limited resources at hand, the gap between national priorities – medal-winning versus general population sports participation [...]

February 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sporting issues …

In keeping with the widely-held in some quarters that the whole world has gone bonkers in recent times (Brexit, Trump etc.) these days there’s also plenty happening in the world of sport. Here are some examples, selected exclusively from reports in the media today: UK SPORT Yesterday UK Sport [...]

February 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

American Sport

Like many a Ruster I was fast asleep by the time the Super Bowl began. I heard that the 51st Super Bowl was the greatest ever and the first to be determined in over time so I followed late in the afternoon yesterday the highlights of the fourth quarter when the New England Patriots mounted a [...]

February 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

What they did next (continued)

Back in the day – that’s my day, not anyone’s born after 1975 – one didn’t give much thought to what footballers did with their lives after they retired from the game. I suppose in my mind’s eye I imagined that things didn’t change much for those in the era before mine (think Tom [...]

January 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

Fings ain’t wot they used ter be

This is my sixty-fifth Christmas and one thing I’ve noticed recently is that either my computer keyboard needs a new battery – that was my first assumption some eight months when I first noticed the phenomenon, since when I’ve changed the batteries twice – or my ability at two-fingered [...]

December 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Time to hang up your sports shoes?

The decision to retire is always an interesting one. Nico Rosberg retired after one successful season bur Roger Federer (22 grand slams) and Rafael Nadal (9 French Opens) drive their creaking bodies even harder to complete one more year on the circuit. Golfers like Lee Westwood and Sergio Garcia [...]

December 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

The final day and last supper

The smart money was on us being back in the hotel for lunch but after losing by an innings and 36 runs in 38 minutes we could have made it a late breakfast! Excuses have been made that we do not face spin of this quality back home, that India are a tremendous Test team but this does not explain how [...]

December 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Well now they’ve really got to do SOMETHING

Yesterday’s revelations by Canadian Professor Richard McLaren of the US Anti-Doping Agency about Russia’s systematic state-organised doping programme between 2011 and 2015 must stand as one of the most courageous and forthright condemnations of cheating in the chequered history of world sport. [...]

December 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

Day Two

England’s lack of a test class spinner was never more apparent than yesterday. Whereas Ashwin teased and tormented with flight, bounce, trajectory, pace and placement, Mooen Ali, Joe Root and Rashid served up predictable fare which set no challenge. Thus after making a more than respectable [...]

December 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

What’s it all about … anyone?

There’s no doubting that the retirement decision of newly-crowned world champion Nico Rosberg 24 hours ago came as a bolt out of the blue not only to Formula One but to the world of sport generally. Judging by the reaction of former greats, pundits and the media generally it seems that most [...]

December 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

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