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A dinner with Sir Garry Sobers

As part of the Luke Wright benefit year a golf day and dinner was organised at East Sussex National last night. Luke Wright was not there, he was hitting the winning run off the last ball against Gloucestershire in the T 20 blast but the greatest cricketer of all time was. With his crinkly silvery [...]

June 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

1966 and all that

I have been following Bernadette’s advice and watching The Professionals every Sunday morning. Yesterday I noticed there was a programme about Bobby Charlton before it and I became engrossed by it. I believe that 1966-70 was the golden period of British post war football. During it England [...]

June 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

What’s not to like?

We sports lovers live in a golden age. There is a surfeit of sport going on in the world and modern technology renders it available to viewers and listeners in a manner of which previous generations can only have dreamed. When it comes to presentation, things have changed much in the last seventy [...]

June 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

The U.S Open

Cricket has got so much coverage in the pages off the Rust this  past week that I am grateful that the U.S. Open gets a mention. There was much controversy in the build up about the  quality of the course at Chambers Bay, Washington, Seattle. Mike Davies, the PGA chief executive, locked horns [...]

June 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

How it all began

As we cricket lovers bask in the glories of the New Zealand Black Cap’s all-too-brief (or should I say ‘ridiculously truncated’?) Test and ODI tour and slowly turn our minds to the Ashes clash, here’s a to-be-recommended article by John Lazenby that appears today upon the [...]

June 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Ivan again

It’s becoming the Ivan Conway show as yet again I’m posting. Hopefully the readers will bear with me. This time its more about Matt Prior and cycling. I saw Matt at the Players Club at Arundel  and later at at Luke Wright’s Dinner at the Old Forge Storrington. Matt was with [...]

June 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

Life as it should be lived

First, my apologies to any disgruntled readers who in the past week may have felt that the Rust had been taken over by myself or indeed cricket. In a rare break from my traditional loyalties to Sussex CCC, yesterday I accepted a long-standing invitation from a doyen (and former President) of Surrey [...]

June 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sport and drugs (revisited)

Being a hard-liner upon the subject of performance-enhancing drugs being taken in sport, I’m delighted to highlight any opinion or development that is likely to expose the cheats and indeed the hypocrisy of those sports administrators and others who don’t really want to upset the apple [...]

June 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

Life on the ocean wave

Towards the end of last week I travelled to stay with my father at the coast for about ten days – part of the reason being to sail in an annual regatta which takes place in June. This year my father is celebrating his half-century as owner/skipper of his 21 feet (at the waterline) keel boat which [...]

June 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

Celebrating Barry McGuigan and Irish featherweights

Yesterday I had to pick up a prescription from a pharmacy in Hove. The chief pharmacist is a friendly Irishman called Paddy. He is a short fellow and I was surprised to learn was once the All Ireland featherweight  champion.  Conversation turned to Barry McGuigan ( “The Clones [...]

June 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

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