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On the Casey

I was delighted that Paul Casey, such a pleasant but underrated golfer successfully defended the Valspar at Copperhead not least because I had backed him at 25-1. With Jason Kokrak finishing in the top ten this was a good weekend for me. Casey is 41 now, looks trim and usually features high up the [...]

March 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

The art of flogging a dead horse

From time to time on the Rust sports pages we feature one or two recurring themes that interest us – to wit: (1) a hard (not to say unremitting and absolute) line upon the use of performance-enhancing drugs by individual athletes and the managers, agents, ne’er-do-wells (or even [...]

March 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

A coming man perhaps

Boxing scribe Steve Bunce can be something of an acquired taste – Buncey is what it says on the tin, a knowledgeable Brit with a knockabout persona – but, as his contributions to Sky Sports and Radio Five Live testify, a man who knows his stuff. Here’s his analysis of last [...]

March 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

Women and elite motor sport

Last night as I retired to bed – shortly after 9.30pm I think it was, though I wasn’t taking note of the time – I turned on Radio Five Live and, as I began drifting away, caught a ten minute segment of a discussion feature upon the issues facing young female motor racing drivers [...]

March 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

A breakthrough? Perhaps …

Today another feather in the Rust‘s cap – and indeed that of Tom Hollingworth, our sports editor – for the uncompromising campaign we have been running to promote the virtues of transparency, honesty and integrity in world sport. Sometimes the best and most principled attitudes to [...]

March 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

Brighton reach the FA Cup semi finals

For the first time since 1983 Brighton have reached the FA CUP semi finals. In the year of “Smith must score” and Jimmy Melia’s dancing shoes we beat Manchester City en route to Wembley so the omens are good. Yet in the 88th minute, two goals down to Millwall and the New Den in full voice in [...]

March 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

An epic day of sport

I can scarcely remember a more epic, less predictable, cornucopia of sport than Saturday. On Friday we had a reunion lunch of sports writing colleagues. These can be depressing affairs as one or others drop off the perch and we reminisce on the “good old days “ of creative accounting with [...]

March 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report / Fulham 1 Liverpool 2

Fulham’s run of defeats has extended to eight, and 70 goals conceded and, although performance levels have improved under Scott Parker, probably not enough to convince the powers that be that he should get the gig permanently. We rather feared playing the big boys at home but against Spurs, [...]

March 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

England have serious issues to address before RWC

Some two seasons now into my ‘break’ from Quins – a state of mind akin to that of a recovering alcoholic, i.e. (medical folklore has it) never cured but at best in ongoing temporary remission – yesterday I settled down with family and friends to watch the final afternoon of 2019 Six [...]

March 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

Swindon 3 Arsenal 1 (1969 League Cup Final)

Fifty years ago third division Swindon beat the mighty Arsenal at Wembley in the 1969 League Cup Final. The 40th anniversary reunion (2009) Much was made at the time (and after) about the pitch cutting up after the Horse of the Year show and Arsenal being stricken by flu but, whatever way you look [...]

March 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

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