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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

Drug notes

More on sports and performance-enhancing drugs – a topic that prompts Rust interest from time to time. Firstly, we have received the news that tennis star Maria Sharapova has been given a two-year ban for use of a banned substance – see here –  Owen Gibson writing on the website of – THE [...]

June 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Standing up to be counted

Yesterday afternoon I watched on television as Serena Williams, who is going to be 35 in September, lost 5-7, 4-6 to first-time Major winner Garbine Muguruza (formerly of Venezuela, now of Spain) in the final of the women’s singles at the French Open. Serena therefore remains on a career record [...]

June 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Alfie’s Boys

It was inevitable in the 50th anniversary of the World Cup victory there would be a tv tribute to the victors of 1966.  Sadly with Alan Ball and  Bobby Moore lost to us , substitutes had to be found in the form of The son of  Ball and Tina first wife of Moore.  Footage could also be used  for [...]

May 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

No big deal

Last week a stink blew up over the decision by members of Muirfield Golf Club to reject the admission of women as members. As I understand it, they needed a 75% majority to accept the change to their ‘men only’ rule – the senior executives supported the move and did everything they reasonably [...]

May 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

TMS

You can feel summer is a-coming when TMS returns to the airwaves. Having  boring stuff to do at home, I switched on for the morning spell. The Sri Lankan commentator was warmly welcomed and then had to take criticism of this country’s bowling attack from Geoff  Boycott. There was much [...]

May 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

It depends how you define equality

From our growing ‘stuck record’ department, I fear. On the subjects of tennis, equal pay, political correctness and similar, here comes another report upon research suggesting that elite female tennis players are some of the luckiest sports-people alive in terms of ‘value for [...]

April 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Grand National

Once upon a time the BBC held the sporting rights to virtually every major sporting event. ITV was not so much the junior partner as the office boy. Sky has eroded BBC’s primacy and now horse racing, another fiefdom lost, is shown on Channel 4. Although they do not have a commentator to match [...]

April 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

Every cloud has a silver lining

The great thing about sport is that, deep down, even the greatest exponents in the world remain human. Taken from the excellent coverage of the first round of the 2016 US Masters via Sky Sports on British television, here’s a short YouTube video clip of Ernie Els making every hack golfer in [...]

April 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Equality when deserved, I say

On a day in which yet more alarming statistics have been published showing that obesity is becoming an increasingly serious issue for the nation nobody in their right mind could possibly raise an objection to women being encouraged to exercise and/or take up sport. Nevertheless, historically the [...]

April 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

The essence of sport

If you asked me to identify the point at which my years of following cricket avidly as a committed fan ended I would probably point to a high note such as the famous ‘Botham’s Ashes’ series of 1981. Thus it was more out of curiosity than anything else – well, apart from the fact that there [...]

March 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

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