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Broadcasting – excellent and very, very average

Last night, after a fairly busy day culminating in making myself an evening meal, I decided on a whim to retire to bed just after 8.30pm for no other reason that I was weary and felt like it. It proved to be a happy move because, quite by chance, I had only just missed the beginning of what turned [...]

June 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Swedes triumphant

Both the Nordea Masters and  the Memorial were won by Swedes, Alex Noren by 4 shots and David Lingmerth after a 3 hole play off with Justin Rose. Aside from Henrik Stensen, Sweden does not have too many household names in golf but  have a whole raft of players like Farrh, Blixt and Magnus [...]

June 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

When sport disappoints

Sport is a life-enhancing part of life, or it ought to be. We spectators come to it every time expecting or hoping to be lifted out of our mundane existences and transported to a world in which magical things happens and we can marvel at the athletic skills of people more talented than ourselves. [...]

June 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Champions League Final

The Champions League final can often produce a bore where the result is all. The auguries were not good when a well organised side like Juventus play a more expressive team like Barcelona. I was even more apprehensive when Phil Neville, a mediocre analyist, predicted an exciting game. For once Phil [...]

June 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Radio 5 sport- too PC?

There is much sport to savour this weekend with two showpiece events: the Derby and Champions League Final. John Pargiter will be watching the golf at Memorial where the Tiger Woods game is now restored if not match winning. Andy Murray is making a fist of it against the invincible Djorkovic and [...]

June 6, 2015 // 1 Comment

Tribute to a rugby great

The news broke yesterday morning that Jerry Collins, the former All Black, and his wife had been killed  in an horrific motor accident in southern France and their young baby girl is still fighting for her life. Collins, 34, was a larger-than-life sporting character, respected and admired by fans [...]

June 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Blatter’s demise: is the FA too triumphal?

Let me say right away I am no apologist for Sepp Blatter. Whilst recognising his achievement in transforming football into the biggest global sport, this was no legacy because the cost of corruption in achieving this was too high and unacceptable. Stanley Rous, a former English referee and football [...]

June 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

Has it really come to this?

Having been personally genetically programmed to have no interest in sport whatsoever, today I’m straying into murky waters – but that’s one of the joys of being a Rust contributor. When I fired up my computer today, I was bombarded by sporting headlines in the media. Let’s see: The [...]

June 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

Quad hike

It’s not often you see one of the best golfers in the world card a 8 (known as a quad) let alone 2 but Ricky Fowler and Dustin Johnson managed this over the weekend. Fowler was playing in the Irish Open where one of its sponsors  Rory Mcilroy bagged a 80.  Dane Soren Kjeldsen came out on [...]

June 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Pretty vacant, really

Yesterday a young England team beat the Barbarians at Twickenham by the embarrassing margin of 73-12 in front of a crowd of barely 30,000. As a contest it was little more than a training run-out. Danny Cipriani deservedly won the man-of-the-match award for kicking 11 out of 11 and in all scoring [...]

June 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

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