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Bad week for the Beeb

It’s hardly been a great week for ‘Auntie’.    The Reckoning was produced by ITV studios but broadcast on Mondays and Tuesdays on BBC 1. The final episode’s credits revealed that an investigation by Newsnight into Sir Jimmy Savile had been dropped. Next up was their coverage of the [...]

October 22, 2023 // 0 Comments

New Zealand 44 Argentina 6

Whilst I understand the criticism of a draw made 3 years ago which had the four best teams in the world in the one section, it has helped the All Blacks who have choked in past World Cups by not meeting competitive opposition before the business end. This time they have had to play France and [...]

October 21, 2023 // 0 Comments

The Power of Sport

Let’s face it the news is pretty darn depressing these days: war in Ukraine, the Middle East a tinderbox and a terrorist atrocity on the streets of Brussels. Speaking to the Rust team, the only cheer and positivity  is on the sports desk. They report on  a late summer/early autumn of fine [...]

October 18, 2023 // 0 Comments

Yesterday on TV

Monday night is my quiz night on TV. Clive Myrie is now presenting Mastermind and Amol Rajan University Challenge. Both programmes tend to be associated with one presenter – Magnus Magnusson and Bamber Gascoigne respectively – but the two new boys have settled in well. On one episode of [...]

October 17, 2023 // 0 Comments

Sunday‘s quarter finals

Our readership has had plenty of opportunity to read of two more thrilling matches so I thought I would major on the coverage which, in my view, did not match the occasion. I was particularly irritated by David Flatman – the analyst for ITV’s coverage of France v South Africa. He [...]

October 16, 2023 // 0 Comments

The Saturday RWC quarter finals.

The two semi-final victories by Argentina and New Zealand prove that at the highest competitive levels it’s less about tactics and more about laying your body on the line for your country I remember the two football World Cup finals of 1974 and 1978, when Argentina beat Holland, the former had [...]

October 15, 2023 // 0 Comments

Rugby World Cup: Quarter Final preview

WALES v ARGENTINA Wales are as overrated as much as Argentina are understated, but I still take the Principality to win narrowly. In Rees-Zammit they have one of the most lethal wings around but Beffelli of Argentina runs  him close. IRELAND v NEW ZEALAND The tie of the round, if not the [...]

October 14, 2023 // 0 Comments

Recent TV: The Reckoning & das Boot

The Reckoning is a hard watch but a necessary one. It shows how a TV personality Jimmy Savile was able to get away with virtually anything because of his contacts within the Police, the BBC and the charities he supported. Steve Coogan plays Jimmy Savile superbly, but authenticity is added by [...]

October 13, 2023 // 0 Comments

London parks

One of the joys of my new membership of the Reform Club situated at 104 Pall Mall is an early morning walk in nearby St James Park. No city I have ever visited matches central London for its 5 parks: Regents Park, Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, Green Park and St James. If you took an overhead photo [...]

October 12, 2023 // 0 Comments

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