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Christmas weekend misery

Saturday 23rd December 2017: Aviva Premiership rugby, Round 11: Newcastle Falcons v Harlequins at Kingston Park, Newcastle: Result: Newcastle 11 (4 league points) Harlequins 10 (one losing bonus point): latest League positions – Newcastle 7th on 28 Points, Harlequins 9th on 25 points. Today I can [...]

December 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report ; Fulham 2 Barnsley 1

Watching this with a Fulham pal abroad on Fulham tv was something of a first for me. It was commentated by Gentleman Jin McGullion and his co-analyst Jamie Reid, who are both unremittingly partisan. The transmission went down about 6 times, crucially in the last minutes, but generally the picture [...]

December 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

It’s that time of year again

As Yuletide beckons – chaotic last minute shopping, endless gridlocks on Britain’s motorways, television screens full of total rubbish except, of course, for Channel Four which seems to be showing a series of classic Carry On films during the daytime (yesterday they showed Carry On [...]

December 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Be careful what you wish for

And so we learn that Birmingham has been awarded the right to stage the 2022 Commonwealth Games against (it must be admitted) not many other bidders, most of whom seemed to pull out of the competition anyway before the decision was made. I have long been in favour of doing away with our world [...]

December 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

The end is nigh …

For my last post of 2017 – now in the midst of festive season planning and last minute shopping – I thought I would offer a brief review of where English rugby union has reached after another heady but hectic past twelve months. On the negative front, the Aviva Premiership continues down its [...]

December 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Up yours, you son of a gun! (geddit?)

[I’m rather proud of my headline today – for the slow off the mark, it’s a clever (I think) oblique reference to the rapid-firing Gatling gun – a forerunner of the machine gun – patented by US inventor Richard Gatling on 4th November 1862.] William Boyd as Hopalong [...]

December 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

BBC Sports Personality Of The Year 2017

For my sins, last night I watched the 2017 edition of the BBC’s Sports Personality Of The Year which was broadcast live from the Echo Arena in Liverpool between 6.45pm and 9.00pm on BBC1. I do this every year even though I’m fully aware and accept that it’s no more than a straightforward [...]

December 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Unhappy times

From where I sit in my master control suite surveying the goings on in the world of sport I sometimes reflect upon the debilitating and gradual disengaging effect of creeping age upon a sports fan’s mind. I might have once have called it ‘creeping maturity’ but I’m sufficiently ancient [...]

December 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Over and out – and back to the day job

Friday 15th December 2017: European Champions Cup Rugby Pool 1, Round 4: Ulster v Harlequins at the Kingspan Stadium; Result – Ulster 52 Harlequins 24: Pool standings – Ulster 2nd on 13 points, Harlequins 4th and bottom on 2 points. Almost certain to progress into the knock-out stage La [...]

December 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Kiwi Sport

Yesterday the group arrived at Hawke’s Bay and we are billeted in the charming town/village of Havelock of some 13,000 inhabitants near Napier. It was our first taste of provincial New Zealand. The airport terminal was one building and the baggage reclaim a designated area with no carousel but [...]

December 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

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