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Once more unto the breach

This is the Big One – at precisely 0630 hours this morning a two-man SOE unit [you’ll have to look it up] will be picked up and driven to the City airport in London to be flown into enemy-occupied France. Their do-or-die mission will be to provide support to the formerly-mighty Quins match day [...]

May 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina file

I was in London recently for an Art fair and decided to take the short rail journey to Brighton to meet up with Alan and Ivan. We had an interesting conversation along the lines that supporting your team is about management of expectations. Ivan, for example, after a season in which Brighton spent [...]

May 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

The golfing weekend

Both the US and European PGA events went to play offs and surprise winners.  La trophee Hassan in Rabat did not attract the best of fields, South Africans Oosthuizen and Schwartzel stayed away from this and the Wells Fargo at Quail Hollow. .   It was won by Korean Jeungchen Wang over Spaniard [...]

May 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Setting off down the runway

England rugby head coach Eddie Jones announced his training squad to go into camp between 17th and 19th May at Brighton College – see a media report here – THE GUARDIAN Jones-watching has become a fashionable pastime amongst rugby fans ever since the RFU – bending to public opinion, as it [...]

May 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Middlesbrough 1 Brighton1

So Brighton have to satisfy themselves with a play-off place with 89 points- enough for automatic promotion most seasons- the same as Boro but with a goal difference 2 less. No point doing ‘if only’ – over the season, Boro had a perfectly good goal disallowed in their penultimate [...]

May 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

As fond send-offs go, a disaster …

Saturday 7th May 2016: Aviva Premiership Round 22: Harlequins v Exeter Chiefs at the Stoop, kick-off 1330 hours: Result – Harlequins 24 (0 league points) Exeter Chiefs 62 (5 point bonus-try win). Harlequins 3 tries (Care, Stanley and Sinkler), three conversions (Evans 1, Botica 2) and one penalty [...]

May 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

And so we face/the final curtain …

And thus we reach the twilight of another English rugby union season – the last matches of the regular fixture list in the Aviva Premiership  this weekend, with only the semi-final play-offs and Final to come; and of course the elite European cup rugby finals, the Challenge Cup next Friday [...]

May 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: To renew or not to renew

Yesterday I received the renewal forms for my season ticket. I was informed we had our “share of high and lows”. I can’t recall too many highs except for victories over QPR . As for lows, well we are one place outside the relegation zone and but for the goals of Dembele and [...]

May 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Don’t ever feel sorry for bookies

No I’m not one of the 47 that laid Leicester at 5000-1 at Ladbrokes to win the Premier. an article in the Racing Post coveredthe damage to bookies.   The upside is  the publicity and the coupon (accumulator) busting that Leicester did.   This said it’s clear the bookies misread the [...]

May 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brighton 1 Derby 1

Automatic promotion is getting simpler: Brighton must win their final game at Middlesbrough. Going into the Derby game a win and a draw at Middlesbrough would have sufficed, but now only the victory. Nothing could be resolved yesterday though Burnley’s 0ne-nil win over QPR meant they had [...]

May 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

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