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Smith v Farrell

There was an interesting debate in The Sunday Times at the weekend between Stephen Jones and Stuart Barnes on Marcus Smith. Jones is no fan and doubts whether Smith should ever be selected for England, whilst Barnes is. It’s no longer such an live issue as, with Farrell reportedly in negotiations [...]

January 9, 2024 // 0 Comments

Keith Park

If you ascend the steps from The Mall to Carlton House Terrace and walk towards the Athenaeum Club you pass a statue. I doubt if many stop – and less would know what its subject achieved – but it’s fair comment that, but for him, a swastika might have been flying from the august [...]

January 7, 2024 // 0 Comments

Great Collectors of Our Time/James Stourton

Published in 2007 and covering the post-War period this is a thorough account of the Great Collectors. Many – like Paul Getty, Paul Mellon,  the Rothschilds and Giovanni Agnelli have huge wealth – others like Peggy Guggenheim a brilliant eye but less funds to acquire, although she was [...]

January 5, 2024 // 0 Comments

Two unwatchable films/Maestro & Saltburn

If Maestro and Saltburn are acclaimed as two of the best films of 2023 I would not like to see the two worst. I thought Maestro was the biopic of Leonard Bernstein but it is not; it is the story of his marriage his wife played by Carey Mulligan. She occupies the film stage front, left and centre [...]

January 5, 2024 // 0 Comments

West Ham 0 Brighton 0

The only person that could have been pleased by this dull goalless draw was our own Pargie who backed it. Brighton – down to the walking wounded because of an ever-lengthening injury list, not helped by Asian Cup and African Cup of Nation calls -arguably had the better against a luck-lustre [...]

January 3, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 2 Arsenal 1

The old telegram address of Fulham was “Fulhamish” and that is still used to describe Fulham’s inconsistency – i.e. our capacity to beat and to lose to teams unpredictably. Thus coming into this Arsenal fixture, which we have not won for 12 years, we lost by the odd goal in [...]

January 1, 2024 // 0 Comments

Harlequins 32 Gloucester 26

The story in the media will doubtless be  the brilliant performance of Marcus Smith but, before I pay my tribute, let us not forget he missed three kickable conversions which would have put the game beyond a rather hapless Gloucester who have now gone 8 games without a win. Marcus is not the [...]

December 31, 2023 // 0 Comments

Brighton 4 Spurs 2

This was arguably Brighton’s best performance of the season , achieved with 10 players out through injury and after 26 games played. Spurs, too, have many injuries but possess a deeper squad, the resources to replenish and less games played. So little excuse for them. Danny Welbeck led the line [...]

December 30, 2023 // 0 Comments

The state of England rugby union – Woodward has a ten point plan

I must begin today by declaring an interest that, despite his illustrious rugby union playing career as a centre threequarters (21 caps for England) and, of course, his subsequent stint as England head coach which culminated in the historic 2003 England Rugby World Cup victory in Australia, I am [...]

December 30, 2023 // 0 Comments

West Wittering outing

On Wednesday I organised a day trip of Rusters to Bob Tickler’s beach hut on West Wittering beach. The trip was organised some time ago and of course –  when the day arrived – Storm Gerrit was on its way. A cricketer turned successful artist friend of Alice’s is painting a [...]

December 29, 2023 // 0 Comments

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