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The Cup Final

The 2015 Cup Final between Arsenal and Aston Villa was too one-sided  a contest to be memorable so it’s worth considering the current status and presentation of this show piece of the sporting calendar … or is it?  In my lifetime it has reduced significantly in status. This is because [...]

May 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

You can’t always get what you want

Yesterday at Twickenham Stadium Saracens defeated Bath 28-16 to win rugby’s Premiership. It was not the result that romantics like me were hoping for but – fair play to the victors – they ran out to a 25-3 lead by half time and dug deep to retain control after Bath’s second half efforts [...]

May 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

FIFA

Our readers might be surprised that we at the National Rust have been slow to enter the affray after the arrest of 8 senior FIFA officials. Generally speaking we feel unless we can add value by contributing something not considered or a contrarian view that our readers’ appetite is satisfied [...]

May 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Looking back and forward

BRIGHTON With play off places achieved in the previous two seasons, the highest gates in the division and a stadium fit for the premier, we did not expect to struggle at the other end. True our best players over the last two years -Bridcutt, Bridge, Barnes, Buckley, Ulloa and Upson – all went [...]

May 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Someone’s got to win

Last night Worcester Warriors drew 30-30 to win rugby’s Championship (59-58 on aggregate over two matches, home and away) and gain promotion to the Premiership. I have only read reports of the game, in which Bristol led 30-16 with ten minutes to go to the final whistle, but by all accounts it was [...]

May 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Brighton Tigers

I have written before that Brighton and Sussex sporting-wise punch beyond their weight. Brighton and Hove have a well supported football team in a wonderful stadium, the oldest professional cricket club, Sussex CCC founded in 1839, a dog track and race course.  In the county we have Goodwood, [...]

May 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

Rugby’s the poorer …

The Aviva Premiership season ground on at the weekend: Leicester Tigers 22 Northampton Saints 14; Exeter Chiefs 44 Sales Sharks 16; London Irish 40 Wasps 40; London Welsh 17 Saracens 68; Bath 50 Gloucester 30; Newcastle Falcons 37 Harlequins 21. These results leave the play-off semi-finals as [...]

May 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

McIlroy on song

There are few sights better in sport let alone golf than to watch Rory at the top of his game. On Saturday he shot a 61 – much as I enjoyed and appreciated the round I had a lingering fear that the record of one of my golfing heroes Al “Mr 59 ” Geiberger would be equalled. There [...]

May 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina file

I had a very happy text from John Pargiter after the Juve win. He had backed them each way at 20-1 after the knock out stage on my advice. I could not bear  supporting a Juve win so I made no  bet myself. I do not think they will beat Barca in the final.  In the Champions League they abandoned [...]

May 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report

In all the years I have followed Fulham I have never renewed my season ticket with a heavier heart. Indeed even in the darkest days when we might have fallen out of the league altogether it would have been unthinkable not to renew. In those bleak days of the early 90s I was reassured that the board [...]

May 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

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