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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

Defending the indefensible

Had Sepp Blatter  retired two terms ago , he would have been recognised as the great administrator but, as so often happens, he stayed too long and has become a disliked and disrespected figure. His great contribution was  the globalisation of the game. It’s not really perceived here as [...]

June 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

Analysing the analysts

There was an excellent tribute yesterday at lunch time on Test Match Special to John Arlott. Aside from the poetic quality of his commentary and his Hampshire burrh, Arlott  also had the gift of saying nothing. I had the privilege of knowing Ken Wolstenholme who, when he gave lectures on [...]

June 14, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Art of Zen

Yesterday, having attended to a variety of domestic matters, I set off to stay with my father at the coast for the weekend. Having finally – and reluctantly, yet with a Godzilla-sized post-act sense of relief – sacked his octogenarian gardener ten months ago on account of decrepitude, my [...]

June 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

Goodbye to all that

I couldn’t let the news that Australia’s legendary Grand Prix driver Jack Brabham has died aged 88 pass without comment. As a senior citizen, these days I watch modern sports heroes mostly on the television, marvelling at their skills, their finely-honed abilities … and above all, their [...]

May 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

See what happens when you look under a cricketing stone

Yesterday, without much pleasure in the act, I registered my disquiet at the impending re-appointment of Peter Moores as England cricket head coach – primarily based upon my conviction that, generally-speaking, there’s little to be gained from ‘going backwards’. I’m fond of the word [...]

April 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

English cricket – the concerns remain

Peter Moores will be named as England’s head coach for the second time this morning. I’m not denying his credentials – he recently steered Lancashire to the their first county title in nearly eighty years – but in my view this is a hugely negative step for England cricket, whose [...]

April 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

Remembering another tragedy

Next year will be the 30th anniversary of Heysel where 39 fans lost their lives when Liverpool fans stampeded. It will be interesting to se how Liverpool and the the football world remembers this. Here is an excellent piece on the subject by Oliver Kay – THE ANFIELD WRAP   [...]

April 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

Track and field takes another hit

Continuing our series on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport, here’s a report on the 18 months ban announced yesterday on Asafa Powell for his alleged use of the stimulant oxilofrine. He, naturally, disputes both the finding of guilt and the sentence. See here – THE GUARDIAN [...]

April 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Grand National Men

I can claim acquaintanceship with two of the key personalities of this year’s Grand National. The first is Lord Daresbury, effectively Lord Grand National. He was at the same college as me at Cambridge although I did not know him well.  He was Peter Greenall then, the heir of the brewery [...]

April 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

Putting youself through it

I believe it was Benjamin Franklin who famously asserted that death and taxes were the only two certainties in life. However, most of us will also recognise that, as we get older – unless we are diligently alert to the issue and retain a strong degree of self-discipline – we tend to succumb to [...]

March 31, 2014 // 0 Comments

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