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Ryder Cup Review

The smart money is on the USA but I am not so sure. The optimism for a States victory seems to be based on home form and 6 rookies in the opponents. This fails to take into account that the States have lost 8 out of the last 10 Ryder Cups. Further whilst the Europeans seem  a cohesive force under [...]

September 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Nice to be top

Michel  de Vacri Of course I follow in the Rust Brighton, Fulham and Harlequins but one thing I can say to my fellow correspondents is that I am the only one to support a team that tops its league. This is all the more impressive as we lost our manager Claude Puel to Southampton and our best [...]

September 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Transparency – and smoke, fire and maybe mirrors

Regular Rust readers will be aware that on the proverbial sports desk we take a uniformly tough line on the use of performance-enhancing drugs by athletes, irrespective of their sport or game. Our robust attitude does not quite reach ‘guilty until proven innocent’ territory but – because [...]

September 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

THE TANNER REPORT : FULHAM 0 BRISTOL CITY 4

Like many football supporters I have my superstitious match day rituals. I always have 2 fried eggs and fried bread. If the yolks do not break in the pan that means Fulham will win, if one does a draw, two a loss. Ominously two broke. Bob Tickler asked me to take his godson Jamie to the game, his [...]

September 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Rising

Saturday 24th January 2016: Aviva Premiership Round 4. Harlequins v Saracens at the Stoop, kick-off 3.00pm. Result: Quins 17 (4 league points), Saracens 10 (1 losing bonus point). It is a fact that, from every spectator’s viewpoint, all sporting events – great or small – spring from the wider [...]

September 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

A grim night at the Amex: Brighton 1 Reading 2 (ELC)

You often read in the manager’s column of a programme that your (fans) support matters although clubs with their high ticket prices and endless sales promotion of merchandise do not do that much to foster it. Last night’s League Cup match v Reading before a crowd of 6000 – in [...]

September 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Golfing weekend

Once again Jeremy Chapman brought joy to the Pargiter household with another winner, Franceso Molinari at the Italian Open at Monza. He narrowly beat Danny Willett by one stroke and it was good to see the Masters winner in form going into the Ryder Cup. There was no US PGA event this weekend . [...]

September 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Money and sport

What has struck me recently about some of the developments in the world of sport is the fact that, as a branch of the entertainment business, its governors and administrators are constantly wrestling with the fundamental issues of attracting the paying public, television (or online) viewers and – [...]

September 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Pushing a boulder up a hill

It’s well-known that two signals of old age are firstly, an entrenched belief that things were better ‘back in the day’ [what a horrible phrase!] and secondly, a tendency to repeat one’s own stories. Thus I begin my post today hoping, probably in vain, that in addressing today’s chosen [...]

September 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

A Brighton sporting day

If you ask someone to say what is Brighton famous for the answer you would probably get would be the Pier, Seafront, Lanes, Royal Pavilion and the gay capital of Europe. Sport would probably not feature yet with the Amex football stadium, Hove Cricket Ground, Brighton Racecourse and the greyhound [...]

September 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

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