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Fulham with one game left are one place above the three relegation places. Once this would be a cause for celebration as Fulham the great escapologists of the sixties and of  season 2008-09 might evade relegation once again. Although we were mathematically safe after yet another inept performance, [...]

May 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sad, but it had to be done …

Sunday 1st April 2016: Madejski Stadium: Aviva Premiership Round 21: London Irish 25 Harlequins 32: Respective latest league positions – Harlequins 6th on 55 points, London Irish 12th on 20 points (relegated into the Championship). I did not watch this Harlequins away match because firstly, I [...]

May 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Going to the Dogs

Last night I took Jamie, his mother and two local friends to Hove dog stadium to see my dog, Trap in Front run. I call him Crap in Front as the last three times he has run he is fast out of the trap then on the penultimate bend with 50m to go he is crowded out. The trainer and various greyhound [...]

May 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

SUSSEX CCC LUNCH

Yesterday I  attended the inaugural lunch of the Sussex Cricket Foundation Appeal. I have attended many such lunches for over 30 years and the format of welcome/comic speech/q & a/ games/ raffle/auction has little changed. It has the advantage of raising money for the Appeal but the [...]

April 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

It depends how you define equality

From our growing ‘stuck record’ department, I fear. On the subjects of tennis, equal pay, political correctness and similar, here comes another report upon research suggesting that elite female tennis players are some of the luckiest sports-people alive in terms of ‘value for [...]

April 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Remembering rugby’s sacrifice

Yesterday afternoon I travelled to Twickenham Stadium for the launch of the RFU’s Rose & Poppy Gates opposite the middle of the West Stand – essentially a memorial to the England internationals who were killed in the First World War – but (and I was unclear on this point) possibly [...]

April 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

What goes around comes around (maybe)

The tribal gulf between adherents of Rugby Union and Rugby League, caused by the hundred years ‘parting of the ways’ in 1895 when the Northern Union clubs (League wasn’t called League until about 1922) split off over the question of ‘broken time’ payments, i.e. professionalism, remains [...]

April 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

A tribute to George Cohen

Last night I attended a dinner at Craven Cottage as part of the appeal to raise money for the statue for George Cohen. The great and the the good – notably Roy Hodgson and Ray Lewington who guided Fulham to the Europa League final in 2010 – were present, though not George’s great [...]

April 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

In pursuit of sports equality

For good or ill, today I return to the vexed and ultimately related problems of sexism in sport and extreme political-correctness – a subject that re-emerges from time to time on this highly-regarded media organ. I am taking as my text for this purpose the article that appears today upon the [...]

April 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

All’s well that ends well

Friday 22nd April 2016: European Challenge Cup semi-final: Harlequins v Grenoble at the Stoop; result – Harlequins 30 Grenoble 6. “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone …” (or whatever it was that W.H. Auden wrote in his Funeral Blues poem that was recited by actor John Hannah at a [...]

April 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

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