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An ultimately unsatisfying day of sport

Saturday you could watch the start of the Tour de France in Florence, two Euro 2024 games and the T20 World Cup Final. I followed most of them and watched the whole of Germany 2 Denmark 0. The game was marred firstly by lightning that caused the withdrawal of both teams and secondly by some odd VAR [...]

July 1, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Euros so far

The best teams do not necessarily win tournaments. Brazil were the best team at the 1992 World Cup in Spain but Italy beat them and won the title. Italy drew all 3 of their group games but the team that impressed most in the qualifying stage do not tend to win either. The team that gathers [...]

June 20, 2024 // 0 Comments

Brighton confirm Fabian Huerzerler as Head Coach

First a few facts courtesy of the Argus Brighton football reporter Brian Owen. Huerzeler is the youngest Premier boss in Brighton’s history at 31 ( Charlie Webb was aged 28 when appointed in 1919) Heuzzeler younger than Lewis Dunk and Pascal Groß, and the formation of the Premier League in [...]

June 18, 2024 // 0 Comments

The US Open

With the Euros and T20 World Cup centre stage, the US Open has slipped under the radar. Yet they say it is the tourney that the Pros like to win. It begins at Pinehurst today, a demanding par 70 course which Martin Kaymer destroyed 10 years ago. In researching and deciding my staking plan, I [...]

June 13, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sussex sport on the march

Sussex Sharks sit atop their Southern Division Vitality Blast whilst the County Club top the second division of the Championship. Over last weekend the Sharks won away at the Oval over “moneybags” Surrey and then beat up Gloucestershire in Bristol. The County side have beaten Yorkshire, [...]

June 10, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sharks triumph & Seagulls still to appoint.

Whisper it softly to Duggie Heath, but I’m beginning to warm to T20 cricket. Last week, in the “red ball” championship, Middlesex and Sussex played out a bore draw in which neither side had a second innings. In contrast, the T20 Vitality Blast match between Sussex Sharks and [...]

June 1, 2024 // 0 Comments

Olympiakos 1 Fiorentina 0 / Conference Final

for the second year running Fiorentina lost the Conference Final in a dull , disappointing game. Our problem is a weak strike force. Nico Gonzalez was average and a mistake to prefer Bellotti to Beltran the match was played in the impressive stadium of AEK Athens and therefore the home city of [...]

May 30, 2024 // 0 Comments

Two cup finals

Of the two Cup Finals I watched on Saturday Leinster v Toulouse was much the more gripping. As a kid the F.A. Cup Final was always the epicentre of the sporting year. Typically I would go round to a mate in the morning and we would watch on telly the road to the Final, the actual coach journey, the [...]

May 27, 2024 // 0 Comments

Atalanta 3 Bayer Leverkusen 0

When there is talk of the great managers Gian Piero Gasperini of Atalanta is rarely mentioned – certainly less so than Alonso of Bayer Leverkusen who have won the Bumdesliga and came to the Europa League Final in the Aviva Stadium Dublin on a 51 game unbeaten run. Yet it was Gasperini’s [...]

May 24, 2024 // 0 Comments

Sussex win and ciao de Zerbi

The real sporting excitement in Brighton and Hove yesterday was not at the Amex where fans said goodbye to Roberto de Zerbi but at the county ground where Sussex CCC won a low scoring thriller by 21 runs over Yorkshire. At tea, Yorkshire only needed 25 runs with Adam Lyth and Revis installed at the [...]

May 20, 2024 // 0 Comments

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