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What is a great sportsman?

The above question might seem facile as the obvious answer is someone at the top of heir sport for a significant period of time. An obvious candidate would be 18 time major winner Jack Nicklaus but I would say he is as much qualified for his sportsmanship. We use the words ” sport” and [...]

July 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

It’s got to happen sometime

For those of us who ever worried about the future and the way that elite sport is going globally, here’s another article worth reading – Dervashi Lodhia on the route in which the IOC might take the Olympic Games in terms of taking e-sports on board – see here, as appears on the [...]

July 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

Golfing gold

Yesterday I visited Old Thorns Golf & Country Estate in Hampshire in order to play a round of golf with the three old reprobates that I played with regularly in one combination or another for about a decade and a half from my early forties. My early forties were a long time ago – looks, [...]

July 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

The sporting weekend

One of the few ethical issues that trouble those that wager on sport is betting against your own team. On one hand there are those that say why not, winning can be a consolation for defeat on the pitch, whilst others view it as heresy. It is undoubtedly true that having a financial interest in the [...]

July 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

A long sporting day

In the old days before I wrote for the Rust and participated in the Great Debate (attendance v tv) it was a gimme that if I had a ticket – by no means easy to obtain – I would invariably go to the event. In those pre-SKY days there was virtually no live football, cricket and the BBC had [...]

July 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

The fat lady is not even in the wings yet

Make no mistake about it – and irrespective of the result of next weekend’s third and final Test match – their 24-21 epic victory over the All Blacks at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington on Saturday morning UK time will go down as one of the greatest moments in the long history of the [...]

July 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report/John Fraser

The name John Fraser would not mean much unless you were a Fulham supporter over 50. John, a right back, was a journeyman pro who played some 65 games for Fulham but one who happened to be the arguably the greatest day in the club’s history the 1975 Cup Final v West Ham. Yesterday I met John [...]

July 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

Ooops …

You know how – no matter how impeccable our DNA, upbringings or social manners – sometimes we find ourselves saying something appallingly inappropriate, insensitive or crass … and then afterwards either genuinely ‘find ourselves in hot water’, or get mocked and teased about it by others, [...]

July 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

You CAN be serious!

All four regular readers of the sports pages of this esteemed organ will be all too familiar with our two longest-running debating points. However, for visitors from Mars, or indeed those who have erroneously alighted here completely by chance when searching the internet for something else, I list [...]

June 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

My sporting week

I totally agree wiht Tom Hollingsworth that in calling the first Test between the British Lions and the All Blacks the so called experts got it spectacularly wrong. Of the 10 experts consulted in the Telegraph special supplement , Sir Ian McGeechan, Brian Moore and rugby correspondent Mick Cleary [...]

June 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

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