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The Championship, Brighton, Sussex CCC and Gay Pride

I had two long conversations with Alan Tanner prior to the Fulham v Newcastle game and after our goalless draw with Derby and shared our views with Pargie  anxious for tips. My view is that the chances of promotion are greatly enhanced by having someone at the helm with form in the  Championship. [...]

August 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Newcastle 0

Although Newcastle garnered all the pre-match publicity with Fulham hardly meriting  a mention in the build up, we played with intelligence and passion to achieve a deserved win.  The conventional view was that Newcastle – who had bought in Dwight Gayle, Matt Ritchie and Mohammed Diame [...]

August 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Flying down to Rio

As I type this I am listening to the Opening Ceremony of the Rio Olympics as broadcast on Radio Five Live in the wee hours of a UK morning. I have certain events that I wish to watch but currently have no intention whatsoever to immerse myself in wall-to-wall Olympic-viewing. You can call me a [...]

August 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Once more unto the beach …

Having never attended in the flesh either a major athletics championship or an Olympics – but always having instead relied upon either radio commentaries and/or television coverage of such things – I am not looking forward to Rio, whose Opening Ceremony occurs today, with any particular sense [...]

August 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

USPGA & RYDER CUP SELECTION

When it comes to the sporting calendar I’m a bit of a traditionalist and do not appreciate any mucking about with it. Thus the decision to bring forward the USPGA to accommodate the Olympics did not sit well with me. It produced an unlikely winner in Jimmy Walker who tends to start the season [...]

August 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Someone needs to get a grip

Having yesterday posted to the Rust on the subject of boxing and then a broadcasting cock-up during Radio Five Live’s celebratory coverage on the 50th anniversary of England’s 1966 soccer World Cup win, I had not expected to be back against quite as soon as today. Nevertheless, I find [...]

August 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

A boxing treat

Overnight – because these things happen when you’re a senior citizen – I was wide awake (albeit lying on my back in bed) when Carl Frampton, former word super-bantamweight champion, stepped into the ring at Brookyln’s Barclay Center in New York to challenge Leo Santa Cruz for the WBA [...]

July 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Gender issues in sport

With Rio 2016 fast approaching, here’s a link to a thought-provoking and well-balanced article by Donald McRae on Caster Semenya, the South African athlete who is expected to do great things on the Olympics athletics track, that appears today on the website of – THE GUARDIAN It covers [...]

July 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Eighty not out

Some might call it lazy journalism, but they don’t understand what websites such as the Rust are about. Our primary purpose is to reflect the interests, observations, attitudes and complications of life as it is lived in the 21st Century by those who have reached broadly the age of fifty or [...]

July 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Drugs – it’s one way or the other

No apologies here for posting another round in the Rust‘s reporting of sports cheating via the use of performance-enhancing drugs and yes, it concerns Russia and the 2016 Rio Olympics which begin about a week from now. My subject today is not the fact that my old pal Vladimir Putin who [...]

July 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

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