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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

Rugby union – the problems continue

We seem to be featuring a series of rugby-related posts on the Rust at the moment but I have no hesitation in recommending to our readers the following article. It addresses the Premiership Rugby’s fudge-debacle over the alleged breaches of its salary cap and comes from the pen of ex-England [...]

November 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

Only saying what everyone else is thinking

At 4.00pm UK time this afternoon the Southern Hemisphere countries of Australia and New Zealand will contest the final of the 2015 Rugby World Cup at Twickenham Stadium in south-west London. As I type this I have no idea which of them will lift the William Webb Ellis trophy and in one sense it [...]

October 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

Par for the course?

One thing that has always staggered me about the world of sport is the seemingly unerring ability of its governing bodies to be incompetent and/or naïve in how they go about things. Examples that immediately spring to my mind are the FA, FIFA, UEFA, the IOC, the IAAF, the ICA (professional [...]

October 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

A bigger problem

I do not have the knowledge of Derek and Sandra on rugby. I’m looking at our demise in the Rugby World Cup from the point of view of continued failure in other World Cup in football and cricket as well as rugby. I am avoiding  a common adjective of “under-achieving” as I no [...]

October 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Some worthy reading

Here are links to two sporting articles spotted on the websites of respectively The Independent and The Guardian this morning (10th October 2015) that readers of the National Rust might enjoy and/or find rewarding. Not long ago a fellow Rust contributor noted that The Independent seemed to have [...]

October 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sign Of The Times

Not all my Rust colleagues are reactionary old coots. However, besides raging against the dying of the light and chronicling our personal observations upon the passing of time – and without ‘doing a John Major’ by being erroneously nostalgic for periods of our youth when life [...]

September 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

Female presenters

I was listening to TMS when the storm broke over the Stokes dismissal. The story will dominate the back pages as the cricketing press love controversy and confrontation as much as their football writers. I was struck by how acute the analysis of Australian cricinfo journalist Melinda Farrell was. [...]

September 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Life after cricket

Albert Trott famously hit the ball over the Lords pavilion for 6. His last shot was to his own head with a service revolver. Cricketers  perhaps more than any other sportsmen are afflicted by mental issues. One of the reasons for this is the uncertainty once their  career is finished. There are [...]

June 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

How it all began

As we cricket lovers bask in the glories of the New Zealand Black Cap’s all-too-brief (or should I say ‘ridiculously truncated’?) Test and ODI tour and slowly turn our minds to the Ashes clash, here’s a to-be-recommended article by John Lazenby that appears today upon the [...]

June 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sport and drugs (revisited)

Being a hard-liner upon the subject of performance-enhancing drugs being taken in sport, I’m delighted to highlight any opinion or development that is likely to expose the cheats and indeed the hypocrisy of those sports administrators and others who don’t really want to upset the apple [...]

June 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

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