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Wimbledon

Daddy bought me a debenture for Wimbledon but we agreed this year that I would sell the tickets for the fortnight back to the All England Club and use the money for a holiday. I’m a fully paid-up member of the “Watch it on television” Rusters group and cannot believe the prices asked [...]

July 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

Arrivederci, Boris …

On this organ – in the main – we do our best to avoid what might be described as “straight reporting” of headline news stories and/or sporting contests for a combination of three reasons. Firstly, because the mainstream Fleet Street media and others supply this ad nauseam upon a [...]

July 8, 2022 // 0 Comments

Le Tour

Yesterday I watched an enthralling 5th stage of the Tour de France which followed the route more or less of the great classic Paris-Roubaix. Much of the terrain is cobbled narrow tracks which in the one day classic leads to a exacting race as the cobbled stones shake up the riders and in the rain [...]

July 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

Chums/Simon Kuper

The central thesis of Simon Kuper’s book is that a tiny caste of Oxford graduates of the 1980s took over the running of the country and the origins of Brexit are to be identified there. The clear flaws in this theory are that Nigel Farage and the 52% that voted leave were not educated there. [...]

July 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

On musical tastes and one’s place in time

Over the past week or so – nothing to do with my editorial duties I hasten to add – I have chosen to watch specific items featuring popular (rock) music on the television for my own enlightenment and/or pleasure. I have blogged previously upon my view that, in many respects – whether we like [...]

July 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

The way things are going …

Trawling the internet via the media websites overnight I came upon the following piece on the website of the Daily Mail – as Rusters will appreciate from experience, one of the few newspapers that still allow human beings to “link” their stories to pals and third parties – and considered it [...]

July 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

Thoughts on the New Zealand series

One of the ironies of England’s whitewash is the strong New Zealand influence and inspiration. Ben Stokes was born there and new coach Brendan McCullum their finest white ball batter. New Zealand got to the pinnacle by playing the expressive cricket that England have now exposed. This new found [...]

June 28, 2022 // 0 Comments

Finally, the world stops going mad

Although this organ’s mission statement and running themes are well known to its adherents – and we need make no apologies for them – I have been reassured to see that recently the world of sports administration seems, after much hang-wringing and procrastination, at last to have [...]

June 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

A First for Matt Fitzpatrick

I had backed Fitzpatrick – and Adam Hadwin who finished 7th – but for the previous tourney the Canada Open. Still full play for the Sheffield lad, who held off the challenges of Will Zalatoris and Scottie Schefffler, to become only the third Englishman to win the US Open in the last 52 [...]

June 20, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sporting pictures in the mind

For what it’s worth – despite my Rust editorial responsibilities – I have to confess that my original plan for yesterday afternoon had not involved sport at all. There was plenty of it going on – the women’s rugby league international between England and France, the rugby union [...]

June 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

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