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A “Doh!” moment in Doha

Sharp-eyed Rusters may have noticed our ‘non-coverage’ of the World Athletics Championships currently taking place in Doha, Qatar, over the past few days. No disrespect intended to those dedicated and hard-working individuals who devote themselves to participating in track & field – [...]

October 2, 2019 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina file: Milan 1 Fiorentina 3

I see it as my role to report on my beloved Viola but I appreciate many readers prefer a more general update on Serie A. So I will begin by saying this is the worst Milan side I have ever seen. In the Berlusconi era, Milan fielded Gullit, Rijkaard, Van Basten, Baresi, Maldini, Donadoni, Shevchenko [...]

September 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

Changing times – or maybe not?

The UK may think that it is currently immersed in the mother and father of mess-ups over politics, Brexit and where the hell it is going, but you can take comfort in the knowledge you’re not alone. Those at the top table of rugby administration – not least World Rugby itself – are making a [...]

September 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report; Fulham 2 Wigan 0

After three draws the Cottagers got back to their winning ways with this 2-0 home victory. It was not a wholly convincing performance but the great thing after 3 successive 1-1 draws was that at 1-0 with Wigan pressing Fulham scored a second. Most home games I meet pals at Locale an Italian [...]

September 28, 2019 // 0 Comments

They should never come back

We all have our heroes. Back in the mists of time one of mine was Nigel Benn or “the Dark Destroyer”, the British sometime WBO middleweight champion and WBC super-middleweight champion who had a pro career record of 42 win (35 knockouts) in 48 fights. Those successful sports stars who prompt [...]

September 27, 2019 // 0 Comments

Nihon e yo-koso! [translation: “Welcome to Japan!”]

To begin my first piece for the National Rust on the 2019 World Cup – the greatest ‘shop window’ for what I think we can all agree is the finest sport ever to grace the Earth – I wish to pay my respects to the host nation and particular one of rugby’s greatest sons Shiggy Konno. I make no [...]

September 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

Sports topics

Here’s a brief fly-by of my pick of the sporting issues and stories that caught my eye over the weekend: ROWING Multi-gold medallist James Cracknell undoubtedly ranks as one of the all-time great British rowers, not only resembling a purpose-built Greek god but also possessing every champion’s [...]

September 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

Cranking up the pressure …

For domestic reasons which need not concern the average Ruster I have yet to witness more than a pair of BBC New bulletin brief reports’ worth of coverage of the matches played so far but – as yet – the 2019 Rugby World Cup experience seems to have been progressing much as World Rugby and the [...]

September 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

My story/ Granite Grant Logan

I thought I would begin by explaining how it was that I came to write for the Rust. Your wine correspondent Algy Belville came to North Island NZ, what 2 year ago, and met up with a great mate John Buck whose family own Te Mata Estate, the best winery in our country. John chaired Hawkes Bay Rugby [...]

September 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

Let the games commence!

One of the ironies of living long enough to reach one’s sixties is that the very fact tends to play havoc with both collective and personal memories, not least because inevitably the technology by which historical events were recorded define their brief moment in time. This might seem an obvious [...]

September 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

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