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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

Radio 5 sport- too PC?

There is much sport to savour this weekend with two showpiece events: the Derby and Champions League Final. John Pargiter will be watching the golf at Memorial where the Tiger Woods game is now restored if not match winning. Andy Murray is making a fist of it against the invincible Djorkovic and [...]

June 6, 2015 // 1 Comment

Blatter’s demise: is the FA too triumphal?

Let me say right away I am no apologist for Sepp Blatter. Whilst recognising his achievement in transforming football into the biggest global sport, this was no legacy because the cost of corruption in achieving this was too high and unacceptable. Stanley Rous, a former English referee and football [...]

June 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

FIFA

Our readers might be surprised that we at the National Rust have been slow to enter the affray after the arrest of 8 senior FIFA officials. Generally speaking we feel unless we can add value by contributing something not considered or a contrarian view that our readers’ appetite is satisfied [...]

May 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

KP free

Rather like The Independent not carrying stories on the Royals I was prepared to veto Kevin Pietersen as I was so bored by it all. Yet underpinning it is an issue which should be aired, namely a media campaign to pick a player. This has existed in football for years. As recently as the last World [...]

May 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Admitting the truth

Yesterday I duly completed my second consecutive day of rescue boat duties and learned something sobering about myself. In common with most members of the human race, I am self-effacing enough not to want to offend or bother anybody and would simply like to conduct my life on the basis that I try [...]

May 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

It was pretty obvious, wasn’t it? (It always is) …

In the scheme of things, I was an avid fan of boxing in my youth. I regularly watched boxing bouts on the box, I went to big promotions by Mickey Duff, Jarvis Astaire and Frank Warren in and around London and – with some pals of like mind – I ran a small-circulation magazine devoted to [...]

May 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

Knocking something out

For reasons which need not concern my readers, I have hit the ground running this week because – due to recent events and indeed those to come next month – I have just four days to accomplish a great deal. On Monday I opened proceedings by making a list of the things that I needed to do – [...]

April 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Blows to the head

Yesterday I joined a lunch at which an eminent research scientist raised the topic of the long-term effects of repeated blows to the head in sport. This move produced a fascinating fifteen minute discussion around our table. I have a passing interest in this field. A generation or more ago, as a [...]

March 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Rating UK sport

Which country has 3 sportsmen in their twenties who are at the apex of  their sport? Did you guess the correct answer: the UK – Chris Froome, Rory McIlroy and Andy Murray. Add to these Ronnie O’Sullivan, Mark Cavendish, Lewis Hamilton, Jessica Ennis, Mo Farah , our jockeys and the [...]

March 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

Worthy of respect

Just occasionally, we scribes can strike gold with a novel approach to a subject, an interesting specimen, a moment in time, or even a mere phrase that summarises an angle or breaks new ground possibly without us realising it. In which capacity today I’m happy to commend this piece by [...]

February 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

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