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Revival of Bill Naughton’s Spring and Port Wine

For personal reasons which I will divulge later I was so delighted to hear that Bill Naughton’s Spring and Port Wine is to be revived at the Octagon Theatre Bolton. Bill Naughton was of poor Irish stock in County Mayo and moved to Bolton where he bagged and delivered coal. His breakthrough as a [...]

February 11, 2023 // 0 Comments

Mother Goose (Chichester Festival Theatre)

Yesterday – having bought tickets on a relatively last-minute whim – my partner and I went to the Chichester Festival Theatre to see the 5.00pm performance of the touring pantomime Mother Goose, starring Sir Ian McKellen as Mother Goose and comedian John Bishop as his/her husband Vic Goose. The [...]

February 11, 2023 // 0 Comments

Sideways/Radio 4

Yesterday Matthew Syed presented a programme on the chess player Jonathan Nunn. He was something of a prodigy as a mathematician – he was the youngest person to gain admission to Oxford since Cardinal Wolsey. He switched to chess and, although excellent, he was never world grandmaster class. [...]

February 9, 2023 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report : Sunderland 2 Fulham 3. FA Cup 4th Round

The Bench is important. A player coming off it can make an immediate impact. It gives the team needed depth in case of injury or suspensions . The success of Brighton, Brentford and Fulham is the more remarkable as these clubs cannot afford a costly bench. In this replayed Cup Tie Marco Silva made [...]

February 9, 2023 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard: a Spanish Day in London

Yesterday I went with Alice Mansfield to the Royal Academy to see the Spain and Hispanic World collection of Archer M Huntington, the son of a railroad magnate and avid collector around the turn of the twentieth century of Spanish paintings and artefacts. Alice considered Spanish art underrated [...]

February 6, 2023 // 0 Comments

Scotland 29 England 23

It was less of a new dawn, more of a gloriously sunlit game with rain falling at the end on Steve Borthwick’s parade. There were some bright new conditions: Ollie Chessum had a fine game at lock which he needs to do as Maro Itoje is not the force he was and Lewis Ludlum was a mobile flanker. Max [...]

February 6, 2023 // 0 Comments

South Africa v England – the recent ODI series

This series has somehow slipped under the radar with all the spending in the football transfer window and the forthcoming Six Nations. Yet it was an important series to assess the fitness of Jofra Archer and England’s chances of retaining the World Cup in India this October. The South African [...]

February 2, 2023 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report

Yesterday a Fulham supporter whom I have known for many years – and began his support a year after me – treated me to lunch at the Reform Club. I am not a gentleman’s club man, but even so was impressed by its portals, salons and traditions. It was founded after The Great Reform Act [...]

January 31, 2023 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 0 Spurs 1

The story was always going to be Harry Kane beating Jimmy Greaves’ Tottenham goal-scoring record. It took a knowledgeable friend of mine to point out that Jimmy Greaves scored 124 goals in 157 appearances for Chelsea and – in an unhappy time at AC Milan – 9 in 10 games. Jimmy [...]

January 25, 2023 // 0 Comments

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