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Football is indeed back but not necessarily as we know it, Perkins

Following the resumption of football’s Premier – and other – league seasons there has been much discussion of how playing in empty seasons due to the current post-lockdown restrictions has impacted teams, back-room staff, broadcasters and the game generally. Opinions are somewhat [...]

June 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

My sporting week

It’s so good to have live sports back on our screens even if the atmosphere is so weird. I enjoyed Ascot. It’s a difficult event to call so I stuck to my tried and tested formula of laying the favourites. This means at worst you will break even as Stradivarius in the Gold Cup  aside, most [...]

June 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 0 Brentford 2

I had the privilege of cleaning the windows of my 70s FA Cup run hero John Mitchell. Twenty years on we watched  a game together in the grim early 90s. “The problem with this side as opposed to ours,” observed Mitch “is there are not enough players on whom you can rely.” I will spare [...]

June 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Professional/W.C Heinz

I can think of many excellent boxing films – Someone up There loves Me, Rocky and Raging Bull – and some great writers and writings on the Noble Art of Boxing, but it’s fiction is harder to find. This is why I enjoyed The Professional.  It’s the story of Eddie Brown [...]

June 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

Coming out of lockdown (not really)

I’m sure I’m not alone in taking what might appear to be a somewhat laidback approach to where we have reached in the UK’s version of the ongoing coronavirus crisis – partly fuelled by the impression gained from all we read, see and hear that it’s all very complicated, there are [...]

June 19, 2020 // 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

The Colonial

Great to have live golf back on our screen with the Charles Shwab tourney at Colinial Country Club. The USPGA tourney was won after a play-off by Danny Berger over one of the young tyros who will surely make a big name Colin Morikawa who turned pro this year. He and  Cameron Champ will be two [...]

June 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

England v West Indies 1991 (1st Test)

I watched highlights of this game last night hungry for any sort of cricket. There are those who say a replay is unsatisfying as you know the result. I do not agree. I enjoy seeing cricket as it was competed 30 years ago – the hairstyles, the billboards, the players you have forgotten and [...]

June 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

A welcome return on the far side of the world

Yesterday, tipped off by reading Sandra McDowell’s piece in the Rust, after going out for a short walk to collect my newspapers, I made a deliberate decision to tune in to the Sky Sports Main Event channel and have the inaugural match of New Zealand’s new five-team rugby tournament Super Rugby [...]

June 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

Fiddling while Rome burns (and why not?)

Somewhere around 6.30am this morning Him Indoors will be bringing me my first cup of weekend tea in bed. After that we shall gradually prepare to make our way to the drawing room to watch Sky Sports’ live coverage of the Highlanders taking on the Chiefs in Dunedin in the opening game of Super [...]

June 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

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