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Another Wash Out at Hove

It’s now the fourth rain-affected T20 game endured by Sussex Sharks, meaning that we have only 5 points from them, one being a tie. Clubs invest heavily in that select group of players that tour the World playing T20. Ross Taylor In our case we have the Kiwi Ross Taylor. I was some 20 minutes [...]

July 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report / Evening Standard Fulham Supplement 1970

In 1970 the Evening Standard produced a soccer supplement on all the London Clubs. It came out on a Saturday round 1 PM and cost one old shilling ( 5p). I recall waiting at the newspaper kiosk expectantly. In them days you had nothing like the saturation coverage of today as there was no Internet. [...]

July 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

What’s a girl to do?

Today I make no apology for addressing ‘Women and Sport’ arena, one of the recurring themes on the Sports pages of the Rust, at a point during the summer season when there is a great deal of elite men and women’s sport going on. We have just witnessed a Wimbledon tournament at which the hand [...]

July 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report/John Fraser

The name John Fraser would not mean much unless you were a Fulham supporter over 50. John, a right back, was a journeyman pro who played some 65 games for Fulham but one who happened to be the arguably the greatest day in the club’s history the 1975 Cup Final v West Ham. Yesterday I met John [...]

July 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

My sporting weekend

There are many fine European golfers in the up and coming generation and two did well over the weekend. Renato Paratore aged 20 won the Nordea Masters whilst Matt Fitzpatrick who won the tourney last year finished a respectable second. Alexandre Levy of France recently won a tournament too. It was [...]

June 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

What do I know?

When I first was approached to write for the Rust I raised the question of reporting accuracy. We are not a national newspaper where facts are checked and copy ‘leagled’. I was concerned I might make some factual error. The editor told me not to worry as firstly it’s unlikely that [...]

May 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

Golfing weekend

Jeremy Chapman refound his touch by tipping Kevin Kisner who won the Dean and Deluca invitational at Colonial and his pick Jordan Spieth finishing second. He also recommended Francesco Molinari who finished second to Alex Noren in the flagship event of the European PGA the BMW at Wentworth. The [...]

May 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Cup Final

I have written before as have many sportswriters on the sad decline of the FA Cup. Continental footballers grace our game but they do not “get” the cachet of the FA Cup as their major Cup competition domestically does not have similar prestige; there is now so much live football; the [...]

May 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina file: Napoli 4 Fiorentina 1

Fiorentina’s last chance of qualifying for the Europa League disappeared last night in the San Paolo stadium when we lost 4-1 to Napoli. Napoli are one of the strongest sides in the serie a though not as powerful as when they could boast one of the best forward lines in Italy – if not [...]

May 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Premier and Championship

Sky will not get the rousing finale of the season going from ground to ground with breathless coverage but rather a damp squib. The only issue to resolve is fourth place and surely Liverpool can get 3 points at home to Middlesbrough to achieve that . Not that the season is without interest . We [...]

May 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

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