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Man Utd: can they come back?

Students of history will know that the surprising factor is not that empires decline but that they last for so long. It’s not different in sport. Manchester Utd took a long time – and tried numerous managers – before achieving success after Matt Busby. Liverpool dominated the [...]

November 29, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report

Fulham are 6th in the Premiership. After disappointing results against Manchester Utd and West Ham we have beaten Newcastle and Nottingham Forest – both previously unbeaten- and are playing well. The new signings Emile Smith Rowe and Joachim Andersen have bedded in well and Raul Jimenez has [...]

October 1, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sussex crowned champions

Sussex had to score 250 runs yesterday – only the second day of four – against third-placed Middlesex. James Coles They did so – when play was possible – to achieve the bonus point needed for promotion as Champions, thanks to centuries from both John Simpson (my player of [...]

September 30, 2024 // 0 Comments

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

Cineworld

The heading above should have been Lee as I intended to see that film on its release date at the 5-00pm performance. However, on arrival at my local Cineworld, I was informed the projector had broken down and I had to go to another performance. It reminded me of the story about a reviewer who [...]

September 14, 2024 // 0 Comments

Fascist lack of UK leadership

My late father was a keen observer of politics and life. Though I never knew him to read a newspaper he was always remarkably well informed. I had many interesting and informative conversations with him about growing up in Hackney in the 1930s. I asked him about the Fascist Marches. He replied that [...]

August 9, 2024 // 0 Comments

Praise given where due

A common theme in the Rust and elsewhere is the difficulty and frustrations for the elderly  in coping with the demands of the digital age. Thus, when I noted that my passport would expire at the end of 2024, I was naturally anxious that (1) it might take ages to be processed; and (2) I might [...]

August 5, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Olympics assessed

We are now more than a week beyond the opening ceremony ruined by rain which set the tone for an Olympiad not living up to expectation. Scarcely a day goes by without some scandalous happening – the latest being the barring of running Goddess Sha’carri Richardson to the stadium for the [...]

August 4, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sharks narrowly beaten by Warwickshire in One Day Competition

Yesterday I was invited into the Sussex boardroom for a one day game against Warwickshire. Top of the second division of the Championship and in the quarter finals of the T20, our resources are stretched by another competition and it showed. After a platform of 54-0, our batting collapsed. This [...]

July 29, 2024 // 0 Comments

Saturday sports watch

I decided that today my post would centre more on sports coverage than the sports themselves. TMS with ball-by-ball commentary on the third day at Edgbaston was on my radio all day. It threw up such statistical gems as that a Warwickshire player had never scored a century at their own ground [...]

July 28, 2024 // 0 Comments

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