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Aviva Premiership Round 19: Harlequins v Newcastle Falcons @ The Stoop: Harlequins 46 Newcastle Falcons 25: (Harlequins 5 points for a 4-try bonus point victory – position 6th in the league table). And so the Harlequins’ stuttering season continues. Our loss to Northampton Saints a week ago [...]

April 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Danger and responsibility

With boxer Chris Blackwell lying in a hospital and his family hoping that he will be successfully brought out of his induced coma in the next day or so, the world of sport and team games – particularly those involving physical contact – are once again confronting the implications of [...]

April 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Equality when deserved, I say

On a day in which yet more alarming statistics have been published showing that obesity is becoming an increasingly serious issue for the nation nobody in their right mind could possibly raise an objection to women being encouraged to exercise and/or take up sport. Nevertheless, historically the [...]

April 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

The essence of sport

If you asked me to identify the point at which my years of following cricket avidly as a committed fan ended I would probably point to a high note such as the famous ‘Botham’s Ashes’ series of 1981. Thus it was more out of curiosity than anything else – well, apart from the fact that there [...]

March 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Coping with things

Over the Easter weekend, in a social setting, I found myself in a conversation with a lady of roughly my own vintage which touched upon the problems of ageing and dealing with elderly relatives. It all sprang from her inevitable enquiry as to how my surviving elderly parent was – a query [...]

March 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

An Easter Day expedition

Aviva Premiership Round 18: Franklins Gardens 27th March 2016; Northampton Saints 29 Harlequins 23. It was my lot – and pleasure – yesterday to drive in decidedly changeable weather (and wind) up to my former sister-in-law’s farm near Northampton for a quick ‘round the kitchen table’ [...]

March 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

The resumption of normal service

Yesterday, because of family commitments upon this Easter weekend, I watched ‘live’ on television only parts of the back-to-back Aviva Premiership games between Saracens and Exeter Chiefs and then Worcester Warriors and London Irish – both courtesy of BT Sport whose overall coverage I think [...]

March 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

A salute of sorts to a newspaper of sorts

The abandonment of its print edition by The Independent newspaper – to a wholly digital future – is imminent. When it was first published in 1986 under Andreas Whittam Smith I was still idealistic and young enough to welcome it with open arms, pleased to encourage a brand new [...]

March 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Pointing out the obvious

Sometimes you have to be tough or controversial. What happened yesterday in Belgium was a terrible terrorist outrage and it ill bodes anyone to make political points out of such a catastrophe. Still – and I must declare here I’m a Brexit supporter only for the cack-handed reason that [...]

March 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

Easy pickings

About six or so years ago, I’m always a bit hazy upon these details, I received a 6 months’ driving ban for having amassed (was it a total of 12 points?) as a result of speeding offences. I don’t expect any sympathy from my readers – I admit that technically I’d probably been speeding the [...]

March 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

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