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Sunday 31st January: Aviva Premiership Round 10: Kingston Park: Newcastle Falcons 26 Harlequins 19. Deep within the make-up of every sports fan – every true, club-supporting, sports fan – is a ‘glass half empty’, hangdog, fatalistic, resigned and fearful core. Take the situation where you [...]

February 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Qatar Masters

My late father, a keen club golfer of modest talent but much philosophising, used to say that golf was the only sport in the world where you were obliged through the handicap system to explain to your opponent how bad you are before the game began. He often compared golf to tennis a sport my mother [...]

January 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Aspects of elite women’s sport

Later today at some point – I get confused as to time zones and how many hours Australia is ahead of the UK – Serena Williams takes part in the Women’s Final at the Australian Open as (the last time I looked) the 1/5 on favourite. If she wins Serena will equal Steffi Graf’s record of 22 [...]

January 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina file

Like the Premier League the top of the sere a is tight with Napoli leading, Juve second, Fiorentina third and Inter fourth. After a couple of defeats to Lazio and Milan, Fiorentina put their season on track with a solid win over Torino last Sunday morning ( 2-0). We have strengthened the squad with [...]

January 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Steady on, Eddie!

By most accounts Dylan Hartley, the Northampton Saints hooker who will turn 30 in March, winner of 66 England caps, is a regular sort of guy to meet – modest, almost quiet, and dedicated to his professional sport. Yesterday he was appointed captain of England for the 2016 Six Nations by new head [...]

January 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

The golfing weekend

Jason Dufner won his first tourney since the 2013 USA PGA in the Career Builder at La Quinta. Over in Abu Dhabi Ricky Fowler held off the challenge of Thomas Pieters to win. Steve Palmer in the Racing Post is in a rich vein of winning tickles. In his column he was boasting – and  why not ? [...]

January 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Seagulls swoop

Brighton made it two wins in a row and, with 2 winnable home games up next against Brentford and Bolton, have every chance of consolidating their play-off position. Brighton won 2-1 but it was not a great game. Huddersfield, managed by Jurgen Klopp’s number two at Dortmund David Wagner, [...]

January 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sometimes a fan has to suffer

Friday 22nd January, kick-off 7.45pm: European Challenge Cup pool stage: Result – Montpellier 42 Harlequins 9. This report won’t take long because, when typing words is akin to chipping granite with a blunt knife and fork, brevity becomes a virtue. For the last 36 hours, every waking hour, [...]

January 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

The trouble with self-imposed principles

As a player Dean Ryan, 49, the current Director of Rugby at Worcester Warriors, was a tough, rock-hard, uncompromising, sometimes belligerent, Number 8 good enough to have won 6 caps for England – in other words, a top class forward but not a world-class one. When his playing career was over, [...]

January 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

Mine’s a double Jameson’s, Coach …

Now I know something of how fans of David Bowie and Glenn Frey of The Eagles must be feeling – yesterday Conor O’Shea, Harlequins’ Director of Rugby, announced that he’d be leaving his post at the end of the season. He’s being pretty quiet about where he might be going next, but the [...]

January 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

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