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Howard Cosell

On the Rust we often nostalgically praise the sporting commentators of the seventies. In boxing we had Harry Carpenter – not perhaps up there with Peter ‘O’Sullivan, Bill MacLaren and John Arlott – he famously called Bugner v Cooper and Ali v Frazier wrong in the same week. [...]

December 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Big Match revisited

Retro seventies ITV televison is all the rage in the Rust and these past few days I’ve been tuning into The Big Match Revisited broadcast at 6am. It’s being shown chronologically and we are now at December 1979. Two things interested me: how has football changed and how has its [...]

December 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Do you know what it is yet, Mr Jones …?

Like many England rugby fans, I am waiting on tenterhooks to find out exactly how new head coach Eddie Jones eventually sets up his chosen coaching team and in particular just what he is going to do – or even ‘what he is going to be allowed to do’ by the crazy agreement in place between the [...]

December 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

QPR 2 Brighton 2

The Seagulls are still unbeaten in a demanding cycle of games of Derby away, QPR away and next Saturday the big one when first placed Middlesbrough meet second (us) at the Amex. This is our fifth successive draw on the road so when Pargie called up for advice that is the obvious bet. The last three [...]

December 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

A rewarding evening

Due to a prior engagement up Oxford way, I began driving home to London at about 9.00pm last night and did so accompanied by Radio Five Live’s live coverage of the second half of Leicester City 2-1 victory over Chelsea, commentary by Guy Mowbray and Robbie Savage. I’m not a huge [...]

December 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

Juventus 3 Fiorentina 1

The one fixture that Fioretnina want to win is this one. It goes back to 1980 when the scudetto went to the last game. Juve were at Catanzaro, Fiorentina at Cagliari. Juve were awarded a penalty converted by Liam  Brady and Fiorentina refused one. Fast forward to the sale of Roberto Baggio from us [...]

December 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

A Visit to the Dripping Pan

In the never ending debate of attendance v tv watching I would like to add my ha’porth by saying that, aged 66, I still enjoy the feeling of visiting new stadium. Alan Tanner and I intend to visit the Allianz Arena and Bernabeu next year. Yesterday I went to the other extreme of the polarity [...]

December 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

First things first, please …

Never mind the war upon ISIS or the fact of 195 countries signing an accord in Paris regarding action to be taken in respect of climate change in order to avoid the extinction of the human race by the year 2100 AD, there are far more important priorities to be dealt with and I cannot understand why [...]

December 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

Emile Griffith

Many years ago I contributed to a cult boxing magazine called Round One. This led me to undertake some research into Emile Griffith for an article entitled Emile and the Defectives, a review of his lesser known contests. Griffith was chiefly famous – or infamous- for a fight with Benny Kid [...]

December 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

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