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What goes around comes around

Although one can perhaps empathise with the sentiment, the famous “History is bunk” saying of legendary car manufacturer (the original) Henry Ford does not actually provide a complete answer. He was making the point that the greatest (most important) impetus in making progress is the [...]

July 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sam Allardyce

Like many I’m underwhelmed by the appointment of Sam Allardyce. His best achievement was at Bolton where he worked the successful model of ageing players on short term expensive contracts but this was at a cost that has left Bolton with enormous debt and now in the third tier. He did not last [...]

July 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Roger, over … and out

The Rust has never apologised for taking a hard-line approach to the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport, but last weekend’s decision by the International Olympic Committee not to kick Russia out of the 2016 Rio Games – instead leaving it to the controlling federations of individual [...]

July 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

The lessons of Team Sky

Watching the careful nursing of Chris Froome up and over Joux Plan reminded me of Sir Alex Ferguson in a documentary about himself saying he keeps a photo of migrating geese in his office for it’s a perfect formation. Froome was injured the day before and the road down from the mountain was [...]

July 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

The state of UK sport?

The UK can boast 5 champions in their sport: Chris Froome, Mark Cavendish, Andy Murray, Lewis Hamilton and Rory McIlroy and I would argue this compares favourably with bigger countries like the USA, Germany and Brazil, or those with greater historic sporting pedigree like Australia. You might argue [...]

July 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some things never change

Nobody in the know on such matters would be in the slightest surprised at the ‘news’ just announced that the BBC’s coverage of the Euro 2016 cup final out scored ITV’s by a 5 to 1 margin in the viewing ratings. See here – as reported on the website of the DAILY MIRROR [...]

July 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s time to get serious

One of the benefits of getting old is that life becomes ever more simple and straightforward – that’s what I like to maintain, anyway. The thing is that – as modern life hurtles on past your train window – we all tend to get fed up trying to stay ‘connected’ and gradually regroup (or [...]

July 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Open

This will  be remembered as one of the the best Opens of all time certainly since the Duel of the Sun in 1977 at Turnberry between Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus. By Saturday it was a two horse race between the Swede who had yet to win a major – Henrik Stensen – and Phil Mickelson who [...]

July 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Who will win the Open?

My guru Jeremy Chapman fancied Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson, Branden Grace, Chris Wood and Kyung Tae. Provided the weather stays clement DJ has the game most suited on a course where Americans have traditionally done well. Mickelson won two years ago and Lefty can never be written off. Branden [...]

July 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Way to go, Rory!

With the Rio Olympics opening ceremony now only a few weeks away, it would seem that the IOC – and some of the governing bodies of sports admitted to the ‘family’ – could do with more adverse advance publicity like a hole in the head. The IOC is a bit like FIFA is to football and maybe [...]

July 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

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