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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

Park your indignation and simply wallow in it

It’s that time of year again. This week has seen the publication of the shortlist (or is it nominees?) for the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year charade that takes place every December and already we’ve got a raft of holier-than-thou journalists, representatives of B-list sports and inevitably [...]

November 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

A chance meeting

Going about my business yesterday, I heard on good authority a great anecdote. Last week a former player at a leading elite sports club attended an official annual dinner for his peers. He told of how one day long ago he had jumped onto a London bus that was practically empty and after a while fell [...]

November 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Telegraph list of 100 greatest British sportsmen and women

The Telegraph have launched a initiative to establish who are the 100 greatest sportspeople Britain has produced. Judging by the judges and the female emphasis there I suspect it will tell us more about the social mores of our time than be a definitive list. Paul Hayward, an excellent sportswriter, [...]

November 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Transparency – and smoke, fire and maybe mirrors

Regular Rust readers will be aware that on the proverbial sports desk we take a uniformly tough line on the use of performance-enhancing drugs by athletes, irrespective of their sport or game. Our robust attitude does not quite reach ‘guilty until proven innocent’ territory but – because [...]

September 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Money and sport

What has struck me recently about some of the developments in the world of sport is the fact that, as a branch of the entertainment business, its governors and administrators are constantly wrestling with the fundamental issues of attracting the paying public, television (or online) viewers and – [...]

September 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Certainty is all, whatever it is

Today I wish to begin with a disclaimer and/or warning/explanation. As a contributor to this august organ, I do not regard myself as being under any obligation to be balanced, ‘modern’ in outlook, PC-correct or indeed pay lip service (or more) to any notion of fairness, equality or positive [...]

August 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Olympics watching

There is another way of watching the Olympics other than staying up all night which I know a fellow Ruster and I adopt – namely to go to bed at 9 and arise in the early hours. Yesterday morning at 3am I settled down for the woman’s 68 kg freestyle wrestling contested between Dosho of [...]

August 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Olympics/ gymnastry

One of the sensations of these games is the American gymnast Simone Biles who looks like winning 5 golds. I heard a discussion of this girl’s brilliance on the Radio 4 today programme. Duly intrigued I watched her in the individual brilliance event last night. One of the aspects of the [...]

August 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Flying down to Rio

As I type this I am listening to the Opening Ceremony of the Rio Olympics as broadcast on Radio Five Live in the wee hours of a UK morning. I have certain events that I wish to watch but currently have no intention whatsoever to immerse myself in wall-to-wall Olympic-viewing. You can call me a [...]

August 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Someone needs to get a grip

Having yesterday posted to the Rust on the subject of boxing and then a broadcasting cock-up during Radio Five Live’s celebratory coverage on the 50th anniversary of England’s 1966 soccer World Cup win, I had not expected to be back against quite as soon as today. Nevertheless, I find [...]

August 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

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