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A media/sporting oddity

With my apologies in advance for stepping gingerly into our esteemed sports editor’s domain, this morning I wanted to bring to Rusters’ notice an example of media coverage that – for those who might wish to consider such things – highlights some of the difficult and [...]

January 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Reading 0 Fulham 7

Fulham’s season was emphatically back on track with this  win. We had slipped out of the two automatic places largely because our last game was on December 15th and those after that were postponed. True, our last 5 games produced 4 draws and a home defeat to Sheffield United so it was necessary [...]

January 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

A star is born

The cliche goes “It’s all about getting bums on seats”. I disagree. It’s about getting bums off seats. It’s about those sportsmen and women that enthrall with their talent. Off the top of my head, I think of Pele, George Best, Viv Richards, Shane Warne and Barry John. See here – [...]

January 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

A wet and unsatisfying trip to the Stoop

Yesterday I was in a party of five – three of them Exeter Chiefs supporters – that travelled to the Harlequins home ground in cold, blustery and super-wet conditions for a English Premiership clash resulting in a closely fought 14-12 victory for the hosts. It is a fact of sporting life that [...]

January 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

Theatre review: Moscow City Ballet

At my advanced age I have no issue with admitting that firstly – on various levels – I don’t care in the slightest that much of modern life “as it is lived” seems to pass me by and – secondly – that there is very little that occurs which surprises me. Earlier this week I went in a [...]

January 8, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Aftermath (2019)

I found the films over the festive period disappointing. There is a reason for this and that reason is Netflix. Netflix, whose annual subscription is less than the BBC licence fee, are broadcasting films shortly after their cinema general  release. So BBC and ITV are reduced to showing their stock [...]

January 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

More “woke pro-cyclist madness” …

From our “You just couldn’t make it up” department:- Here’s another glaring example in the Rust‘s ongoing campaign against the Government’s misguided policies championing the nefarious interests of cyclists above those of tens of millions of  law-abiding [...]

January 5, 2022 // 0 Comments

Seagulls soaring

With 7 points outs of a possible 9, Brighton can look back at a successful festive season. For the first time Brighton scored 3 in a match at Everton in a 3-2 win and 2 came from the unlikely source of Alex Mac Allister [Note to sub-editor: he likes to separate his “Mac” from his [...]

January 5, 2022 // 0 Comments

Weekend sport

Once again sandwiched between two Premiership soccer matches of high fliers another Premiership match – the rugby variety – provided me with the best entertainment when Harlequins left Kingsholm with a narrow victory (20-17) over Gloucester. Winning at Kingsholm is never easy but all [...]

January 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

Lunch at home/University Challenge

In the week I gave lunch to our art teacher J and her husband R. At various points in the morning as I was preparing lunch I asked myself the question “Would it not be easier to take them to the local and cheapo Italian?” One such moment was after I left M & S, which has excellent food [...]

January 2, 2022 // 0 Comments

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