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The state of Rugby Union in England

It is a well-known fact that the sport of Rugby Union across the board is in plenty of financial and other trouble at the moment. There is talk of making it a “summer sport” in the UK – and even the floating of the idea of it trying to create a merger with Rugby League in order to [...]

September 26, 2024 // 0 Comments

Cricketing national identities

Reading articulate and well-informed books on post-War Caribbean cricket led me to the scarcely original theory that cricket is not played in that many countries but each has an identity  and style of its own. The West Indies dominated cricket for 20 years under Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards but no [...]

September 25, 2024 // 0 Comments

Grace/ITV 1

I do enjoy a TV drama of a Sunday evening and therefore appreciate Grace as it’s shot on location in my native city of Brighton. Grave is is the creation of Peter James. He has a close relationship with the Brighton Police who take him out in their patrol cars. Superintendent Roy Grace (played [...]

September 23, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 3 Newcastle 1

Newcastle came to Craven Cottage unbeaten with the aspiration that that their third successive defeat of Fulham away in the Premiership would take them top. Conversely, Fulham had a poor week as we were unlucky just to draw with West Ham and lost in a  marathon penalty shoot out (16-15) to Preston [...]

September 22, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sir Michael Craig Martin/Royal Academy

Sir Michael Craig Martin is an Irish artist who trained at Yale School of Art. His schtick is pictorial art – i.e. taking images of every day items like a pencil sharpener or fork, magnifying them and depicting them in vivid colours – normally red and purple. Whilst his art begs the [...]

September 21, 2024 // 0 Comments

Fiddler on the Roof/Open Air Theatre (Regent’s Park)

Fiddler on the Roof is a wonderful musical of catchy songs, humour and two engaging themes of displacement and tradition confronting change. This performance does it justice. American actor Adam Dannheiszer is well cast as the philosophical Tevye the milkman clinging to his traditional [...]

September 20, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sussex win in the cold

I went to Hove yesterday and left at midday as I could not take the icy wind. The championship has been book-ended with a chilly spring and autumn. Still, Sussex easily beat Glamorgan by an innings and 87 runs and now top the second division with 200 points – 37 clear of Yorkshire and 52 of [...]

September 12, 2024 // 0 Comments

Tempus Fugit, as we always knew it did …

From time to time on this organ – or indeed sometimes (in real life) quite by chance, perhaps when either undertaking some trivial domestic task or reading a newspaper – one has occasion to reflect upon the passing of time. I had experienced one of the latter on Monday when glancing at [...]

September 11, 2024 // 0 Comments

Jamaica Inn/Daphne du Maurier

oAfter reading non-fiction it was a pleasure to return to a Daphne du Maurier novel I had not read. Jamaica Inn showcases Daphne du Maurer’s ability as a writer: she can tell a good story and conveys a fine sense of location and atmosphere. The story’s heroine is 23 year old Mary Yellan [...]

September 9, 2024 // 0 Comments

England v Sri Lanka: bad light, bad decision

Fact: 44 overs were lost at the Oval yesterday because of bad light. Fact: ticket price for the Oval = £ 80. You might have thought that – with floodlights, a pink ball and a suspension of pace bowling – play could continue for the benefit of spectators but for those that make the [...]

September 7, 2024 // 0 Comments

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