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Weekend media coverage of sport

Michael Henderson, in The Times yesterday, thundered against the new look TMS. He observed that it tries too hard to be funny. He rued the absence of Christopher Martin Jenkins, I agree with Henderson the ultimate flag bearer of traditional cricket, to a certain extent. Brian Johnston laid down the [...]

August 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

Champions League & regrettable comment on TMS

I am getting used to the new normal of crowdless football and looked forward to the business end of the Champions League being televised from Benfica’s stadium. The competition has already thrown up a few surprises with the elimination of Real Madrid and Juventus. Thursday we saw a thoroughly [...]

August 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

Christopher Lee and cricket loving film stars

In May 1959 C.P. Snow delivered a lecture at Cambridge entitled The Two Cultures which subsequently became a book. It was about the ignorance of academics in the humanities on science and science on the arts. No such cultural separation exists at the Rust. We on the arts side pride ourselves on our [...]

August 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

First Test – some thoughts

Although  this Test did not achieve the climax of the 1963 Test v West Indies at Lords nor v Australia at Trent Bridge in 2005 it shared with them a continuity of gripping excitement every day. As at Headingly last year England chased down successfully a difficult total. At 117-5 this seemed [...]

August 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

Sussex Sport

Both Brighton HAFC and Sussex CCC are in a period of transition. I can see some old faces departing and the younger ones taking their place. Brighton avoided relegation but gave us a few scares on the way. Expectedly, we were well beaten by Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool but [...]

August 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

Thoughts on the Third Test

England won the Wisden Trophy to be renamed the Botham/Richards trophy notwithstanding the enormous differential in achievement between the two. What lessons do we learn from the series  ? The weather Hopefully it will now register with the powers-that-be that you cannot trust an English summer. [...]

July 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

My sporting weekend

One of the ironies of the post-lockdown period – when proper live sports action is still so scarce – is that one tends to spend more time than ever seeking it out on the television. For me it’s been something of a curate’s egg situation – “good in parts” – albeit that there have [...]

July 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

Second Test – assessed

Like the Wisden trophy which has gone to a decider there is much to be resolved in England’s performance. The media storm accompanying Stuart Broad’s omission in the first Test did not abate with his bowling spell to break the Windies in their first innings. In an excellent article in [...]

July 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

Seagulls survive

It would take a series of extraordinary results now to deprive Brighton of their senior status. This was achieved by a gritty draw 1- 1 at Southampton last night. The Seagulls had the better of the first half, the old warhorse Glenn Murray flicked on a header, Neil Maupay worked an opening and [...]

July 17, 2020 // 0 Comments

A wondrous Sunday of sport

Can it be exactly a year ago yesterday that England won the Cricket World Cup in the greatest white ball game ever and Novak Djokovic beat Roger Federer in a memorable Wimbledon final? Such a day of sport-fest may never be emulated but yesterday‘s offerings came pretty close. I had the Test on [...]

July 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

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