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Pargie’s sporting weekend

Alan Tanner invited me to Fulham v Wigan on Saturday. Bob Tickler’s godson Jamie now goes regularly with him. He (Jamie) advised that I should back Scott Malone to score any time as he always scores for Jamie. He duly did so but in his own net and had to explain why this does not count. I [...]

February 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Pargie’s sporting weekend

When I first started following golf it was America that dominated with Arnie Palmer and Jack Nicklaus followed by another generation of major winners, Lee Trevino, Johnny Miller, Tom Weiskopf. The Southern Hemisphere provided Roberto de Vincenzo, Peter Thomson, Kel Nagle and Bob Charles but only [...]

February 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

On longevity of sportsmen

There has been an interesting discussion on the Rust these past weeks on how you can measure the greatness of a sportsman by the length of time he/she achieves in their sport. However the converse to this is the sportsman whose best days are behind him but does not realise this. The best example of [...]

February 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

Pargie’s sporting Sunday

It began at 7-30 with a serendipitous moment. I switched onto Sky Sports for the coverage of the Federer/Nadal final. In long haul television I prefer to avoid the build up, too much flannel, and I can only take the Ray Winstone betting advert so many times. However the station was profiling Tom [...]

January 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

Pargie’s Sporting Weekend

I was let down in the golf where my two punts Rory Mcilroy and Jordan Spieth finished runners up and third respectively  in the BMW European event in Johannesburg and the Sony USPGA at Hawaii. The former was won by Graeme Storm who very nearly lost his European tour card. He was 100 euros light [...]

January 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

What’s it all about … anyone?

There’s no doubting that the retirement decision of newly-crowned world champion Nico Rosberg 24 hours ago came as a bolt out of the blue not only to Formula One but to the world of sport generally. Judging by the reaction of former greats, pundits and the media generally it seems that most [...]

December 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Oh what bad luck

Almost every gambler I have met blames his bad luck: what has he done to deserve this(?) is a frequent cri de coeur. Conveniently they forget when Lady Luck is on their side as happened to me last weekend. Late goals in the Milan derby and Manchester United v Arsenal game provided a result when all [...]

November 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

US and European Tour

Both tour events were played in high class resorts last weekend. The OHL US PGA took place at the high end Mayakoba resort in Mexico on a Greg Norman-designed course and the Nedbank in Sun City on the Gary Player course. Pat Perez won in Mexico, Alex Noren his fourth European title this year in [...]

November 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Final Day

Needless to say it was still raining. This had affected the trip as at no stage could we comfortably stroll around the city, enjoy the Retiro Park or outdoor cafe and restaurant life. Nonetheless we could enjoy the indoor activities of the art museums and in Alan and Ivan’s case football at [...]

October 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Beating the market

There is always satisfaction in beating the market and that is as much my driver for a flutter as an  enhancement of watching tv sport.  The match between Liverpool and Manchester United had been hyped up all weekend . Klopp’s Liverpool were on the up with significant wins against the big [...]

October 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

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