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Eager for some football – any football – I watched two “re-wind” programmes yesterday. The first was on the BBC and featured previous World Cups and the second in the ITV classic series the 1979 Cup Final between Arsenal and Manchester United. I recently participated in a poll [...]

May 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

Bill Muddyman RIP

Last night I learned of the passing of a key figure in the boardoom in the last 43 years – Bill Muddyman. In the 1980s Fulham Chairman David Bulstrode and his property company Marler Estates who owned the club sought to merge us with QPR into  Fulham Park  Rangers. Fulham would be very much [...]

May 7, 2020 // 1 Comment

Coventry 3 Spurs 2 1987 Cup Final

Yesterday afternoon ITV showed extended highlights of the 1987 Cup Final, generally acclaimed as one of the great Cup Finals. Can it be 33 years ago that I attended that Final with my now departed mother? My late father was medical advisor on inoculation and foreign travel to the England team. What [...]

May 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

10 best sporting commentators

My colleague who has been sending out sporting lists has produced his latest: the 10 best sporting commentators – widely construed to include writers, presenters and analysts. Before I composed mine I gave some thought to the attributes of such best. I came up with: 1) the ability to bring [...]

May 2, 2020 // 0 Comments

10 most influential sporting figures

I have been participating in a list of the 10 most influential sporting figures. The key words are influential and figure.   The subjects need not necessarily be sports people and must have changed their sport. Thus I listed Bosman and Jimmy Hill, average footballers but game changers, ahead of [...]

April 30, 2020 // 0 Comments

The greatest sporting teams

The present somewhat sleepy sports desk of the Rust has been stirred to life by an email Alan Tanner received from a group of Irish and American Fulham supporters with their list of the best  sporting sides. The list reflected their provenance with Gaelic football teams and US College teams in [...]

April 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

More variations upon an unfortunate sporting theme

Back in the day – I cannot recall exactly when, it was about 1980 I think – there was a sports magazine produced in London in which an article appeared imagining a future world in which taking performance enhancing drugs had long been legitimised. The sting in the tail was that main character [...]

April 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

Norman Hunter

I am afraid that the passing of Norman Hunter did not generate the type of feeling that John Pargiter expresssed over Doug Sanders. Norman Hunter belonged to a school of defenders and defending that was prevalent in the late 60s and early 70s. They  were brutal and intimidatory. All the big clubs [...]

April 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

Doug Sanders RIP

I am not one for watching replays of golf tourneys – you know the result and nothing to bet on. Golf does not need spectators in the way football does, indeed some players might welcome the absence of raucous spectators such as you find towards the end of the final day on the US PGA. So I [...]

April 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

An invitation to a virtual lunch

“The Virus, self-isolation and virtual” are the contemporary buzzwords. I received an invitation for a”virtual cricket lunch” on Zoom. Time, dress even matters to be discussed were specified. I did not accept this invitation but I did have a good story for it which I will share with our [...]

April 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

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