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About Tom Hollingworth

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

Drugs – another sports story

Continuing the Rust’s campaign on drugs in sport, today I would like to bring to our readers’ attention this review of a new book that has just been published in France on some ancient – but nonetheless disturbing – allegations about the use of stimulants in rugby union. See [...]

February 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

Physical contact in sport

The effects – particularly long-term – of concussion as suffered in sport is a topic of the moment for rugby union in the wake of incidents relating to Wales’s George North (wing threequarter) and Samson Lee (prop) and England’s Mike Brown (full back) in the Six Nations tournament. [...]

February 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Does it always have to come to this?

It ill bodes anyone to write off one of the all-time sporting greats, not least for fear of one’s words coming back to bite one on the bum. However, today I read about Tiger Woods’ ignominious retirement with a back injury from the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines after just ten holes [...]

February 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Super Bowl

Let me say straight away that I do not follow American football. I have never mastered the tactics nor rules and have a problem spending 4 hours watching a game that takes one. I like sports like football where there is both simplicity and continuity of action and the staccato nature of grid iron [...]

February 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

What goes up can also come down

Spotted today upon the website of The Guardian, this thought-provoking piece by David Conn on the plight of Coventry City – once fleetingly a mighty force in football’s landscape – which has now fallen upon harder times as (most recently) a tenant of nomadic rugby Premiership [...]

December 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

The saga continues

We at the National Rust make no apology for our continuing interest in the use of performing-enhancing drugs in sport. At this moment in time there are hard-hitting stories brewing about cycling [Wow! Quelle surprise!] and two recent German television documentaries alleging that a household-name [...]

December 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

A warning to heed?

Nobody who has any knowledge or experience of modern elite sport would deny that the near-constant commercial and other pressures place enormous strain upon athletes and (where appropriate) their teams and coaching staff. There are some sports in which over-playing, tiredness and [...]

December 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

Farewell to a man

In the small hours of Wednesday morning I listened to a ‘live’ relay of the funeral service of Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes taking place in the small town of Macksville in New South Wales as broadcast by on the Up All Night programme hosted by Rhod Sharp on Radio Five Live. Hughes, as [...]

December 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

Coming home to roost

After last weekend’s rugby clash between England and New Zealand a letter to The Guardian newspaper from a disillusioned England fan sparked a positive – and I use that word carefully – media discussion about the growing lack of respect for the supposed fundamental principles of [...]

November 14, 2014 // 0 Comments

Life goes on

On the day when FIFA is due to publish a summary of its ethics committee’s report by US lawyer Michael Garcia into the controversial bidding processes for the 2018 and 2022 Word Cups, it is perhaps unfair to bring attention to some of the embarrassments facing another leading global sport – [...]

November 13, 2014 // 0 Comments

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