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Cheltenham on TV and Brighton falter

I was very much a paid up member of the Tv-watching club yesterday. I watched Cheltenham races on the telly and was delighted to see that Brighton chairman Tony Bloom’s horse Energumene win the Queen Mother Stakes beating the favourite Shishkin. I believe Tony did not make it back for the [...]

March 17, 2022 // 0 Comments

A Day at Plumpton Races

There is one factor that is not taken into account in the Great Rust Debate of TV versus actual watching of an event, namely getting out of your home. This I feel all the more after essentially being locked up for two years and watching sport with no one there, plus those depressing images daily [...]

March 15, 2022 // 0 Comments

Can we believe what we see?

This isn’t exactly rocket science, but occasionally every man (or woman) jack of us gets reminded that – for the human race generally – either things are never quite what they seem to be and/or (alternatively) sometimes they can be exactly what each of us want them to be, simply because [...]

July 28, 2021 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Sir Christopher Wren Windsor

A few years ago I was a regular visitor to both the Sir Christopher Wren hotel and Windsor. The hotel got tattier and tattier. One day on the outdoor terrace I saw a spritely Indian businessman directing affairs. He turned out to be the owner of Sarova hotels. Sarova have now taken over the hotel. [...]

July 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

Who cares?

I  have titled this post “ who cares?’ as it will be two words applied in it.   My first target is Clive Tyldesley .   He is a football commentator for whom I have never cared as he is full of verbiage  .   When he delivered  his self obsessed rant after being demoted to ITV’s number [...]

June 18, 2021 // 0 Comments

Royal Ascot

It will be interesting to see how the TV companies meet the challenge tonight of covering football behind closed doors. I suspect initially that just to have football back will be sufficient for most fans but after Liverpool have won the title most games will be meaningless. Horse racing is not [...]

June 17, 2020 // 0 Comments

Sporting comparisons

A quiz is doing the football rounds of an Earth best ever XI v Mars. It’s bit of fun but behind it is the serious question of comparison of players from different eras. Yesterday I was engaged in a conversation with a fellow Ruster on this very point. Great soccer players from the 60s and 70s [...]

May 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

Cheltenham

The prominence in the sporting calendar of the horse racing meet at Cheltenham is difficult to explain. The weather is invariably bitter, it’s not that easy to access or egress and the iconic Grand National is less than 2 months away. Even the laddishness of male bonding and the notion of Ladies [...]

March 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

A Day at the Races

Yesterday our Players Club of Sussex CCC organised a day out at Plumpton races.  Always curious to enjoy a new sporting experience I went along. Plumpton is near Lewes in the fold of the South Downs. Sussex is blessed with racecourses. Aside from Plumpton, there are Brighton, Fontwell and the [...]

February 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

Pargie’s sporting weekend

I haves been off the air these past weeks after my big win on Danny Willett at Wentworth. Good to see the Sheffield slugger back to winning ways and nice few quid in my coffers. I duly noted Jeremy Chapman’s tips for the Spanish Open and the US PGA Shriners Children Hospital in Las Vegas without [...]

October 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

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