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They should never come back

We all have our heroes. Back in the mists of time one of mine was Nigel Benn or “the Dark Destroyer”, the British sometime WBO middleweight champion and WBC super-middleweight champion who had a pro career record of 42 win (35 knockouts) in 48 fights. Those successful sports stars who prompt [...]

September 27, 2019 // 0 Comments

Nihon e yo-koso! [translation: “Welcome to Japan!”]

To begin my first piece for the National Rust on the 2019 World Cup – the greatest ‘shop window’ for what I think we can all agree is the finest sport ever to grace the Earth – I wish to pay my respects to the host nation and particular one of rugby’s greatest sons Shiggy Konno. I make no [...]

September 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

Another fading branch of the Establishment

The vexed issue of the future of public service broadcasting in the UK seems to be back on the agenda. Hard on the heels of, firstly, the findings of the BBC’s own internal complaints executive that Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis had been too ‘persistent and personal’ to the point of [...]

September 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

Seriously now – you couldn’t make this up …

Rusters might remember eons ago (well from 1985 to 1992) on Saint and Greavsie – which, when I think of it, might have been heralded as the world’s first sporting podcast had it been mounted thirty years later – that former footballer Jimmy Greaves used to intone “It’s a funny old [...]

September 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

The wedding celebration

This three day celebration was my first experience of a millenial wedding. Most that I have attended in the past take place in a House of God with an officiating vicar or rabbi. This was in the open air in an elegant setting of the gardens of a villa with a lay celebrant. Various vows were made, [...]

September 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

Sports topics

Here’s a brief fly-by of my pick of the sporting issues and stories that caught my eye over the weekend: ROWING Multi-gold medallist James Cracknell undoubtedly ranks as one of the all-time great British rowers, not only resembling a purpose-built Greek god but also possessing every champion’s [...]

September 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

The curious incident of the man in the bathrobe

At 7.30 am yesterday there was a knock on the door and there I find a man in a bathrobe, apparently from the room below, creating in a heavy German accent that the noise from my chair kept him awake all night. This was curious as I awoke at 4.30 am and sat at the desk working on my laptop. [...]

September 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

Cranking up the pressure …

For domestic reasons which need not concern the average Ruster I have yet to witness more than a pair of BBC New bulletin brief reports’ worth of coverage of the matches played so far but – as yet – the 2019 Rugby World Cup experience seems to have been progressing much as World Rugby and the [...]

September 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

My story/ Granite Grant Logan

I thought I would begin by explaining how it was that I came to write for the Rust. Your wine correspondent Algy Belville came to North Island NZ, what 2 year ago, and met up with a great mate John Buck whose family own Te Mata Estate, the best winery in our country. John chaired Hawkes Bay Rugby [...]

September 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

Let the games commence!

One of the ironies of living long enough to reach one’s sixties is that the very fact tends to play havoc with both collective and personal memories, not least because inevitably the technology by which historical events were recorded define their brief moment in time. This might seem an obvious [...]

September 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

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