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It’s getting complicated …

Premiership Rugby is once again considering the prospect of restructuring English rugby’s top tier into a 14-team championship (up from 12) and doing away with promotion and relegation. Apparently, with one eye upon the stonking £5.1 billion television deal recently announced for football’s [...]

March 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina file

Its been a good week for La Viola disposing of Tottenham in the Europa Cup and then beating Inter in the San Siro. Spurs had an early chance when Salgado and Chadli were two on keeper Neto but the pass between them was too casual. After that Gomez and then Chelsea loanee Salah scored, his fourth [...]

March 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sporting Sunday

In the great debate amongst the columnists of the Rust on attendance v television-viewing, let me add my ha’porth as I spent most of my Sunday watching in order cricket, championship football, golf, rugby, Italian football and yet more golf. In between I managed to give my cousin from New [...]

March 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

So near and far

It all seems so obvious now, but Ireland’s convincing 19-9 rugby union victory over England in Dublin yesterday, of which I witnessed only the second half (live on television) due to a family luncheon commitment, defied my adrenalin-fuelled rush of anticipatory uncertainty last week when [...]

March 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

A long day’s journey into night

Sports fans come in all shapes, sizes, mental states and degrees of fanaticism. Maybe it’s my time of life, but I’m now wavering between giving up my season tickets at the end of this season in favour of just watching such Quins games as are available on television … and just taking a deep [...]

March 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report

We Fulham fans have had such a rough time these past two seasons that this emphatic and deserved win over league leaders Derby was as much merited by us as our boys that delivered it. Sometimes injuries enforce changes that benefit the team. With his goal scoring record Rodallega was unlikely to be [...]

March 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

Worthy of respect

Just occasionally, we scribes can strike gold with a novel approach to a subject, an interesting specimen, a moment in time, or even a mere phrase that summarises an angle or breaks new ground possibly without us realising it. In which capacity today I’m happy to commend this piece by [...]

February 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Drugs – another sports story

Continuing the Rust’s campaign on drugs in sport, today I would like to bring to our readers’ attention this review of a new book that has just been published in France on some ancient – but nonetheless disturbing – allegations about the use of stimulants in rugby union. See [...]

February 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

Brighton 2 Leeds 0

The Seagulls maintained ther rich vein of form with a victory over Leeds that was more emphatic than the score line might suggest. We even managed a goal from a striker. If you exclude Darren Bent, now at Derby, Craig Mackail-Smith was the last forward to score in the Championship and that was back [...]

February 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

The January Window/Philip Kerr

  Football is not especially well served by literature. The best is probably The Damned United by David Peace on Brian Clough’s reign at Leeds United. Hunter Davies broke new ground when he wrote a revealing account of Tottenham in The Glory Game. Whether it’s fact or fiction or in [...]

February 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

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