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The golfing weekend

Both the Hero Challenge in Bermuda  and the Nedbank at Sun City had associations with iconic golfers Tiger Woods and Gary Player. Tiger Woods and his foundation were mine host at Bermuda in an invitational  shorter numbered tourney won by Bubba Watson. He only entered at the last moment when [...]

December 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

Whitehawk soar

Alan Tanner was joshing me that we should rename the Rust the Conway Courier for the amount of posts I have had latterly published.  Well, it’s been a stellar weekend for Brighton footbsll and that is the right description as Whitehawk FC  wish to rename  thèmselves Brighton FC . That [...]

December 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Swarm of Seagulls

Yesterday’s 3-2 victory over Charlton was one of the best games I have seen a Brighton side play. After 5 minutes when we were two down to an enterprising Charlton team that belied their relegation postion and had unearthed from park football a talent in 18 year old Ademola Lookman, the word [...]

December 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Canter in the wind

Saturday 5th December 2015 – The Stoop – Harlequins 38 London Irish 7. Make no mistake about it, this was a Grade A Premiership rout played out in front of RFU CEO Ian Ritchie and new England head coach Eddie Jones sitting in the stands. The Australian will have liked what he saw as regards the [...]

December 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Homage to Batistuta

A friend of mine in England sent me this link, which I am happy to share with you, on Fiorentina’s greatest player, Gabriel Batistuta – known as Batigiol. See here  for Rob Smyth’s piece on the website of  The Guardian – GABRIEL BATISTUTA To qualify as the greatest you [...]

December 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Hail Jeremy Chapman

We are going to construct a statue to Jeremy Chapman the golf analyst of the Racing and Football Outlook in our garden for services to our household budget at its time of greatest need, Black Friday and Xmas shopping. He successfully tipped Matt Jones to win the Australian Open and Charl Schwartzel [...]

November 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

Can Brighton do it … then what?

For the first time as the Seagulls sit atop the Championship I found myself wondering could Brighton get promoted automatically and what happens if we do? But first the match. Birmingham under Gary Rowett are in the top six and a stern test but one which Brighton passed and won  by our trademark [...]

November 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

So far so good (possibly)

Sandy Park, Saturday 28th November – Aviva Premiership Round 5 – Exeter Chiefs 26 [4 league points for a win] Harlequins 25 [2 bonus points, one for ending within 7 points, one for scoring four tries]. We like coming from slightly left field on the Rust but I would like it to be known that [...]

November 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina file

Tonight Fiorentina play Basel in the Europa League in a key match. We lost our first home games to Basel and to Lech Posnan but between these won away at Belenenses. Another away win at Posnan gave us 6 points and every chance of 9 as our final game is home to Belenenses, the weakest team in the [...]

November 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Troubled times

It gives me no pleasure at all that my subject today is sport as it relates to integrity and morality but the spate of recent media revelations has caused me to question some of the fundamentals of human life – it is really that important. From my earliest memories of learning things at my [...]

November 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

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