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“On the nodder, Kevin …”

For those who follow the round ball game, here’s a link to a first rate piece by Gregg Bakowski upon his favourite ‘wizards of the wing’ that appears today upon the website of – THE GUARDIAN Those wishing to challenge his choices – or champion the credentials of [...]

May 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Last Dance (Netflix series)

Today I can offer a recommended listen for Rusters of a sporting bent. For good or ill when out for my daily exercise expedition – or should I say “one of them” because we’re now allowed as many as we choose? – I habitually listen via a bluetooth earpiece to Radio Five [...]

May 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

After the virus – or fiddling while Rome burns

In these uncertain times it is inevitable that occasionally one’s thoughts turn to the future and specifically how things might – or will – be once “normality” has returned. Admittedly the concept does have its complications – whose “normality” are we talking about? Many I speak to [...]

May 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

A pair of sporting stories in the UK newspapers

It’s in the nature of this world that necessity is the mother of invention. One potentially positive aspect of this coronavirus crisis is that the lockdown has prompted a wide range of people to come up with unusual, novel and inventive ways of “doing those things that they always intended to [...]

May 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

A chat across the road

As routines become entrenched I enjoy my daily chats with the gent who runs the independent high street supermarket shop from where I buy both my newspapers and odds and sods of food and drink. Yesterday when I popped over the road to collect my Sunday newspapers including The Sunday Times, he [...]

May 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

England 3 The Cameroons 2 (World Cup 1990)

In their Football Classic series ITV yesterday showed the 1990 World Cup Quarter Final between England and the Cameroons. After winning the World Cup in 1966 on home soil playing every game but one at Wembley, English national football did not fare so well. Indeed they did not even qualify for the [...]

May 17, 2020 // 0 Comments

Sporting comparisons

A quiz is doing the football rounds of an Earth best ever XI v Mars. It’s bit of fun but behind it is the serious question of comparison of players from different eras. Yesterday I was engaged in a conversation with a fellow Ruster on this very point. Great soccer players from the 60s and 70s [...]

May 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

Report from the front line …

Hello. I haven’t troubled the scorers in the ongoing unofficial Rust contributors ‘most prolific poster’ competition for a while. Nevertheless, I am happy to return to the fray this morning, hard on the heels of the news that Jo Pavey, the 47 year old middle distance runner, will be [...]

May 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

Ten years on

Ten years ago to the month – if not the day – Fulham pulled off one of the greatest feats in the club’s history by reaching the final of the Europa League played at Hamburg against Atletico Madrid. I remember at the start of that epic campaign chatting to manager Roy Hodgson after I [...]

May 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

Cyclists – a national pest

A common theme amongst us Rusters is our dislike of cyclists. Yesterday morning I was walking alongside the sea on a wide pavement by the main coastal road. At great speed a  Cyclist came hurtling towards me. With an imperious wave he motioned me to walk 2 metres away from him. It’s bad enough a [...]

May 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

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