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Fiorentina file/ Fiorentina 2 Bologna 1 and like father like son

When I was approached to write for the Rust I did enquire how much interest Fiorentina would be to the British fan and should I try to find an angle that such a fan would find of interest. The sports editor replied that as with other contributors I can write what I like as interest to readers, [...]

September 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

Bad day and night for Sussex sport

Sussex CCC lost to Derbyshire by 45 runs , thereby all but  extinguishing our slim hopes of promotion from division 2, whilst the Seagulls lost 2-1 to Bournemouth.  We are 46 points behind Nottinghamshire with 48 available through we play them the last game of the season. Derbyshire paceman [...]

September 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 2 Hull 1

This was a game where the result was all. We finally won before our own crowd and defended a lead successfully. To be fair we still have key players like Tom Cairney and Rui Fonte unavailable. But on the other hand we were prepared to deplete the squad by selling Scott Malone and Sone Aluko. Hull [...]

September 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Coming to terms with it

Regular readers of the Rust will probably be of a vintage able to recall the Andy Capp cartoon strip drawn by Reg Smythe for the Daily Mirror newspaper. Capp was almost an early version of a British Homer Simpson, a working class Everyman from whose ‘ordinary’ interests in life – pubs, beer, [...]

September 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sport – and the same old, same old …

No apologies as today I revisit two of the Rust’s favourite vexed sporting subjects, corruption and performance-enhancing drugs. THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT Today the UK media’s ‘back pages’ – okay, European football apart – are full of reports about the IOC ceremony celebrating the award of [...]

September 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

The art of earning respect

As any fule no (reference Nigel Molesworth, the fictitious character invented by Geoffrey Willians, first appearance in Down With Skool (1953), illustrations by Ronald Searle of St Trinians fame, public recitations of which by our deputy headmaster were a staple of Saturday afternoons from about [...]

September 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

Knocking heads together

Leaving mana-a-mano ‘fighting’ (viz. boxing and mixed marital arts contests) aside because some might argue they’re so patently dangerous to brain health that the argument is slam-dunk unanswerable, what might be termed full-on ‘physical contact’ team sports – e.g. American football, [...]

September 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Cardiff 1

One of the fascinations of football spectating is the vastly different takes on a match. I watched yesterday’s with 2 old friends, all three of us clocking up 150 years of Fulham support. Two of them tend to commentate and judge as it happens. I do not deride this – both picked up [...]

September 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Back in the groove

Saturday 9th September 2017: Rugby Premiership: Harlequins v Gloucester at the Stoop (crowd just under 13,000). Result: Harlequins win 28-17. After two rounds of the league, Quins are now – one win, one loss – in sixth position and Gloucester in seventh. This was a heartening and much-needed [...]

September 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Records are only records

Comparing great sportsmen of different eras is a parlour game that all sports fans have indulged in from time to time – and will do as long as sport remains a human pastime. It’s sometimes held to be the case that statistics cannot lie, but then you have to check out which statistics you’re [...]

September 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

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