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Rugby World Cup – taking or leaving it

I’m well-known as a rugby fan and over the past few months I have been asked innumerable times by a wide variety of folk how many Rugby World Cup matches I am going to, who is going to win the William Webb Ellis trophy … and so on. The answer is that I have deliberately bought no tickets and am [...]

September 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Tanner report: Fulham 2 Blackburn 1

Before the kick off there was a tribute to one of Fulham’s finest sons, Graham Leggat. He played 277 games for Fulham, that is more than is double the entirety of the players that took the field. Not one of them was playing for Fulham two seasons ago. I believe this is one of the reasons we [...]

September 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

Weekend press

There’s only one traditional and absolute rule in Rust-land, which is that there are no rules, instructions or boundaries – well, apart from those we impose upon ourselves. I’m pretty sure – though not 100% certain because none of this has ever been explained to me, indeed [...]

September 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

Brighton 1 Hull 0

I’m not a great one for outpouring of public, vicarious grief and bereavement. It seemed to start with the death of Princess Diana. Every decade’s anniversary of a tragedy is remembered though I cannot recall Liverpool doing too much on the anniversary of Heysel when 39 Juventus fans [...]

September 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

An evening with a rugby legend

Ivan Conway kindly invited me to a dinner, one of the events for beneficiary Luke Wright, with All Black Doug Howlett. Howlett with 49 tries in 62 games is the leading scorer of the All Blacks and one of a handful to have won trophies in the North and South hemisphere: the Super 14 and Heineken Cup [...]

September 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

A sad day for sport and justice

My reaction yesterday to the news that long distance runner Paula Radcliffe had issued a four-page statement acknowledging that she had been the ‘household name’ British athlete mentioned in the series of exposures begin last month by The Sunday Times (in conjunction with the German broadcaster [...]

September 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

The long golfing weekend

Both the European and USPGA are drawing to an end though the latter is enlivened by the $10m Fedex Cup. The feature of the PGA this past few months is the elevation of the form of Jason Day who has won one major and one other event, the Barclays. The only one of that group of 25/26 year olds of [...]

September 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

And so the gloves come off

We are now entering purdah time for the coaches of Rugby World Cup teams – the period with twelve days to go to the opening match [England v Fiji at Twickenham Stadium – Friday 18th September, kick-off 8.00pm] when the squad selections are done, the ‘warm up’ matches are over and all that [...]

September 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Losing it never gets any easier

There once was a time when, as for any sports-loving young man, school lessons for me were just an unnatural interruption between excursions to the games field. Any games field. I’m not saying I was any good at sport, but I was proficient enough to feel that my destiny was surely to be found on [...]

August 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Reaction to the final 2015 England Rugby World Cup squad

Yesterday’s announcement of Stuart Lancaster’s 31-man squad for the 2015 Rugby World Cup yesterday has already been extensively analysed in the media but here’s my six pennies’ worth. Let me begin by stating that, as an England supporter, I very much hope that everything which follows will [...]

August 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

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