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With the start of rugby’s Premiership season delayed because of the Rugby World Cup, yesterday I donned my Harlequins onesie in order to watch on television the All Black’s opening match against Argentina at Wembley in front of a new RWC record crowd of 89,000. The Kiwis duly won the match [...]

September 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

The RWC party starts with a bang …

And so the 2015 Rugby World Cup has begun. Given the recent near blanket back-page coverage – someone within the heart of World Rugby and the RFU’s 2015 World Cup organising committee must either be thanking their lucky stars or else receiving due tribute and congratulations for the excellence [...]

September 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

It’s all in the preparation

Next week I shall be part of a family group (one flying over from Seattle for the purpose) on a four-day tour of the cemeteries and battlefields of WW1 centred – because of an ancestor’s connection – around the centenary of the Battle of Loos which began on 25th September 1915. Guiding us [...]

September 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

A Rock and Roll hero is something to be …

No apologies from me for being a Rolling Stones fan – when about fifteen years ago I took part in a survey conducted by a family member I picked their 1971 and 1972 albums Sticky Fingers and Exile on Maine Street among my Top Ten all-time favourites – thus any reservations or criticisms [...]

September 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

The art of catching

Earlier this week I wrote a short appreciation of the life of cricketer Brian Close upon the news of his death. There have been many words spoken and written since on the same theme and reviewing the illustrious career of the sometime England captain. Today I spotted another, written by Mike Selvey [...]

September 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Rugby World Cup – taking or leaving it

I’m well-known as a rugby fan and over the past few months I have been asked innumerable times by a wide variety of folk how many Rugby World Cup matches I am going to, who is going to win the William Webb Ellis trophy … and so on. The answer is that I have deliberately bought no tickets and am [...]

September 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

First impressions

Shortly after the BBC’s Daily Politics show’s coverage of the House of Commons’ Prime Minister’s Question Time had finished yesterday I had occasion to ring one of my brothers to discuss a subject of mutual interest. As it happens, at the time he was in the middle of a meeting with my other [...]

September 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

A day in Southampton

Yesterday I visited the Southampton Boat Show, not so much because I am a yottie but because I know people who are. A former work colleague had contacted me to announce he was attending with some pals and – if I was doing nothing else – I might like to join them. That was the case. Apart from [...]

September 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Close of play

The death (aged 84) of Brian Close, a Yorkshireman through and through, sometime cricket captain of England, Yorkshire and Somerset and an all-round sportsman of some renown, was announced yesterday. Although when he made his debut for England at the age of 18 he was the youngest ever to do so, [...]

September 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

A sad day for sport and justice

My reaction yesterday to the news that long distance runner Paula Radcliffe had issued a four-page statement acknowledging that she had been the ‘household name’ British athlete mentioned in the series of exposures begin last month by The Sunday Times (in conjunction with the German broadcaster [...]

September 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

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