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A day at Hove Cricket Ground

Going along the seafront on my way to Hove, I saw the Labour delegates and supporters walking to the Conference Centre with a purposeful air and gait as if they represent now the party of power. I expected loonies and activists but many were in suits and being responsible in and for government [...]

September 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

Evaluating the day

I do not know how it is for you 39 readers but I like to take account of the day before turning  in, evaluating the high and low spots. Yesterday was very much a full on day of 3 meetings, 2 at banks and one at Sussex CCC as  a committee member of a fund-raising arm of the cricket club. However [...]

September 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Bad day and night for Sussex sport

Sussex CCC lost to Derbyshire by 45 runs , thereby all but  extinguishing our slim hopes of promotion from division 2, whilst the Seagulls lost 2-1 to Bournemouth.  We are 46 points behind Nottinghamshire with 48 available through we play them the last game of the season. Derbyshire paceman [...]

September 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Path to Hell …

In my last post I mentioned the giving of my Friday test ticket to my neighbour – which you might have thought a simple exercise – but no. He insisted on repaying me and told me that he had left the money (at the reception of the hotel I was staying in) upon collecting the ticket but of [...]

September 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

Records are only records

Comparing great sportsmen of different eras is a parlour game that all sports fans have indulged in from time to time – and will do as long as sport remains a human pastime. It’s sometimes held to be the case that statistics cannot lie, but then you have to check out which statistics you’re [...]

September 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

My sporting weekend

One of the reasons why I restrict myself to a tenner is the sheer incompetence of my laying. I use the Betfair site as you can bet against as well as for. But inevitably and far too regularly make some error. Jeremy Chapman had recommended the South African Haydn Porteus  for the Czech Masters. [...]

September 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

T20 final

Don’t shout it from the rooftops of the Pavilion at Lords but I’m beginning to warm to the T20s game. I thoroughly enjoyed the finals day yesterday. My visceral dislike of T20s was based largely on attendance at matches where I found the fans boorish, the atmosphere too loud and a night [...]

September 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Facing up to it

The other day I was having a conversation with a colleague when the subject of mental health among sportsmen and women came up. As our chat developed, we agreed that somehow – for whatever reason(s) – this seemed to be an issue that appeared to afflict players of cricket at least as [...]

August 31, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sussex win – but only just

Here are two assumptions: 1) I was the only person amongst our readership to appreciate the exciting finish to Sussex CCC’s Championship match at Glamorgan where a tie, win or defeat were all possible on the last final ball bowled. Sussex, nine wickets down, managed to score the runs [...]

August 31, 2017 // 0 Comments

A close shave

Yesterday I had lunch at le Bistro Nantais, currently Daffer’s fave Brighton restaurant though situated in Hove. Who should walk in but Brighton’s most skilful player Anthony  Knockaert. He may be skilful, but he is yet to score, nor has anyone else in the team. Chris Hughton has [...]

August 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

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