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Sussex Awards Dinner

The end of season dinner took place two days after we were relegated. Any thoughts that it might turn into a wake were dispelled as it was a celebration of the careers of Matt Prior and Mike Yardy who both retired last season. Although the party line was the table does not lie, various excuses were [...]

September 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: a night to remember

Fulham’s defeat of local rivals QPR was much more than winning the local bragging rights. It was the best performance since the new owner took over, the best under Kit Symons and if this form is continued we can be hopeful of the play-offs. Even more than that the passing game and interplay [...]

September 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Now I can believe anything

A watershed has been reached – the 2015 Rugby World Cup has finally ‘arrived’ in terms of becoming fixed in the nation’s consciousness. Yesterday I visited the residential home in which my father resides. He seemed, as usual, on pretty good form and at 2.30pm – after lunch – we sat down [...]

September 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sign Of The Times

Not all my Rust colleagues are reactionary old coots. However, besides raging against the dying of the light and chronicling our personal observations upon the passing of time – and without ‘doing a John Major’ by being erroneously nostalgic for periods of our youth when life [...]

September 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

The golfing weekend

Rikard Karlberg won the Italian Open in a play off with Martin Kaymer who threw away a 3 shot lead in the back nine with three bogeys. The German has not won since he coasted the US Open in 2014 which is rather odd. Sweden really only has one household name Henrik Stensen but a clutch of lesser [...]

September 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

Nobody’s perfect

With the start of rugby’s Premiership season delayed because of the Rugby World Cup, yesterday I donned my Harlequins onesie in order to watch on television the All Black’s opening match against Argentina at Wembley in front of a new RWC record crowd of 89,000. The Kiwis duly won the match [...]

September 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

the Jap victory: a local view

When the sports editor asked me for a piece on what proved an enthralling upset yesterday I felt both inadequate and nervous. Rugby is not a sport I follow but the sports editor said that I know the Brighton sporting scene and could do a vox pop post. I have bored readers before on what a great [...]

September 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

The RWC party starts with a bang …

And so the 2015 Rugby World Cup has begun. Given the recent near blanket back-page coverage – someone within the heart of World Rugby and the RFU’s 2015 World Cup organising committee must either be thanking their lucky stars or else receiving due tribute and congratulations for the excellence [...]

September 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

View from abroad

I was rather surprised when, as football correspondent with a meagre knowledge of rugby, the sports editor asked me to contribute a piece on England’s victory over Fiji. I am scarcely qualified to speak on the technical stuff but they like to do this view from a different sport on the Rust. I [...]

September 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

The art of catching

Earlier this week I wrote a short appreciation of the life of cricketer Brian Close upon the news of his death. There have been many words spoken and written since on the same theme and reviewing the illustrious career of the sometime England captain. Today I spotted another, written by Mike Selvey [...]

September 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

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