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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

Independent Scottish sport?

In the admittedly unlikely event that Scotland goes independent what impact on Scotttish sport would ensue? Alex Salmoond opposed the Scottish participation in the last Olympics when Chris Hoy and Andy Murray, arguably their two finest sportsmen, admitted they need the resources south of the border [...]

August 23, 2014 // 0 Comments

An overnight sensation

It would be wrong to pretend that there are many advantages to being a lifelong early bird, but one of them is the opportunity it gives an individual to watch, live on television, era-defining events (often sporting) taking place in the United States of America which, depending upon which time zone [...]

August 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

I had a dream

My earliest memories of playing sport, indeed probably of anything, go back only as far as the early 1960s, midway through my five-year incarceration in a seaside boarding preparatory school deep in the heart of East Sussex. There must have been times when we attended classes and attempted academic [...]

August 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

Hyping up the Commonwealth Games

At the National Rust we pride ourselves at tilting at windmills and we have already attacked the wall-to-wall coverage and hyping of the Commonwealth Games by the BBC. We are not alone. Tom Peck in yesterday’s Independent could not see the point of the Games, other than to remind us of the [...]

July 27, 2014 // 0 Comments

Coming up fast

With Jessica Ennis-Hill on a year out of competition to have her recent baby, since January the 21 year-old rising English heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson had been promoted as one of the Commonwealth Games poster girls and favourite for the gold medal. Sadly, on the eve of the  the Games [...]

July 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

Phew! At least that’s over …

Natural cynic that I am, any review I might have attempted of last night’s Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony – reputedly beamed live to over 1 billion viewers throughout the Commonwealth – was always destined to be awarded a disappointing ‘5’ upon a scale of ten. And ‘5’ is what I [...]

July 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

Couch potato

There has been a debate on these pages on the relative advantages of attending an event or watching it on tv. Yesterday I wanted to follow three sporting events: the second Test against India, a crucial mountain stage of the Tour de France and the second day of the Open at Hoylake. I [...]

July 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

Meeting an old friend

Yesterday I met up with an old school friend whom I last saw some four years ago. He is a distinguished biographer of James Boswell and Hugh Trevor Roper, now working on a biography of John Le Carre. This must be a fascinating work as the author, like Daphne du Maurier, is a semi-recluse and has [...]

July 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

Let’s be honest for once

Yesterday, having rather enjoyed ITV’s early coverage of the Tour de France opening stage, mostly because it reconnected me with the wonders of the Yorkshire countryside, my next television ‘must see’ was the 5.00pm soccer World Cup quarter-final between Argentina and Belgium. Accordingly, I [...]

July 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

Hickstead

At the National Rust sports desk  we are conscious of the disproportionate coverage of football and we do attempt to report on more minority sports. On Sunday I was intending to go to Hickstead for the derby. I followed show jumping in the the era of Davod Broome, Harvey Smith on Sanyo Music [...]

July 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

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