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The First Test

In the 55 years or so I have been watching and reporting on sport there is one constant. When a British sportsman or team is well beaten by overseas opposition , in the navel gazing afterwards the quality of that opposition is understated. I first appreciated this when boxer John H Stracey of whom [...]

June 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Chess matters

Very few chess players are household names, perhaps only Bobby Fischer and Gary Kasparov in my time. In terms of records as he was world champion for 20 years, Kasparov might be regarded as the greater player but Fischer, odd that he indubitably was, broke the hegemony of Soviet chess. Kasparov is [...]

June 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Well, someone’s going one-down on Saturday

These are heady days for Northern Hemisphere rugby in terms of how we’re getting on as regards our annual summer tours to the bottom end of the globe. It’s all down to the results, of course, perhaps with a bit of adrenalin-pumped anticipation thrown in to the effect that – even if [...]

June 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Missing the great presenters

Watching a lot of sport over the weekend I not only missed the great commentators individual to their sport – Bill Maclaren, Richie Benaud, Henry Longhurst – but the legendary presenters too. Titans like David Coleman was editor of his local Stockport newspaper aged 23 and his [...]

June 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

There’s always next time!

From time to time upon these pages I have extemporised upon the subject of parenthood in the context of the illogical ability of human beings to cling to the absurdity that they are eternally youthful – e.g. my father commenting that his ability to flirt was undermined anytime he was forced to [...]

June 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Second up …

I warned Rust readers that I’d be drawing their attention to the ongoing series of articles about the future of sport. Here’s a link to the second in the sequence – THE [...]

June 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Is this one too far?

Some think we on the Rust have a fetish about sporting debates. It’s not quite true, but there are certainly a number of issues around which sporting purity, fairness, integrity and principle (on the one hand) wrestle with expediency, power, corruption, influence and commercial imperatives [...]

June 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

The future of sport

The Guardian newspaper is beginning a new series of pieces on the issues attending the future of sport. It begs the question as to which sports – and how they are marketed – will come to dominate the 21st Century. My guess would be that before too long real-life sport might just be [...]

June 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

My sporting weekend

I get a lot of stick inside and outside The Rust as a closet gambler . I reply that just as a regular drinker is not an alcoholic so a flutterer is not a gambling addict. One of the reasons for this is that I hate ” if only”. Gamblers are unhappy people as even if they win they wished [...]

June 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

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