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Royal Ascot

On both Wednesday and Thursday I watched on TV the horse racing at Ascot. This I did with a certain degree of sad nostalgia as Ladies Day (Thursday) was one of our few regular family outings. My father, a conscientious doctor, would do his morning surgery which made for a late start. My mother, [...]

June 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

The art of keeping up

Regular readers will be aware that from time to time the Rust has taken to featuring pieces on long-running issues, arguments or campaigns in which it is interested, many of them concerned with the world of sport. My opinion piece today is another. It is a fact of life that – in common with every [...]

October 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

My sporting week

I totally agree wiht Tom Hollingsworth that in calling the first Test between the British Lions and the All Blacks the so called experts got it spectacularly wrong. Of the 10 experts consulted in the Telegraph special supplement , Sir Ian McGeechan, Brian Moore and rugby correspondent Mick Cleary [...]

June 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

Royal Ascot

A recurrent theme of the Rust Is ‘Fings ain’t what they used to be’ – not even nostalgia is as good. There is no doubt that memory can play tricks but not in the case of Royal Ascot an event I attended with my late parents for some 30 years but now have little wish to do so [...]

June 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

One for the old man

Yesterday, having arrived on the south coast to spend the weekend with my aged father, we had an idyllic time of it. The early conditions were so-so – to clear the overnight condensation that bedecked my car windows I had to wipe them with a cloth before I could set off at 6.00am to collect [...]

April 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

This and that

Like many, though not as devotedly as Ivan Conway and Alan Tanner, I am following the Championship with interest particularly the race for the play-offs which is boiling up nicely. Last night Huddersfield in 3rd place played lowly Bristol City and Reading in 5th went to Sheffield Wednesday 6th. My [...]

March 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Witnessing a great sporting moment

I’ve got to own up here – I’m not really into sport. I played a bit at school, largely because it was compulsory, and have variously tried squash, golf and garden cricket in my time but participation is not really my game. I began following football by becoming a notional ‘fair weather’ [...]

December 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

The bookies always win

Having gone to bed exceptionally early last night – embarrassment prevents me revealing exactly when – I was inevitably up again at a near-record time. It was either in the twenty to thirty minutes in bed before falling into slumber, or in the similar period as I gradually ‘came [...]

October 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brighton races

Conscious that I’m described as racing man but have yet to report on it I went to Brighton Races yesterday for one of their bigger meets, Gentlemen’s  Day. The course has a great location near the Amex, perched atop the South Downs, and looking over them to the sea. It also features in [...]

May 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Grand National

Once upon a time the BBC held the sporting rights to virtually every major sporting event. ITV was not so much the junior partner as the office boy. Sky has eroded BBC’s primacy and now horse racing, another fiefdom lost, is shown on Channel 4. Although they do not have a commentator to match [...]

April 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

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