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A near-perfect afternoon

Cold temperatures and winds outside in West Sussex, the food shopping done, a gin & tonic plus two glasses of very acceptable claret and a butternut-squash soup and baguette lunch in your stomach, a bright wood-burning fire blazing in the grate and BT Sport’s live coverage of Harlequins v [...]

December 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

I am Ali

I have a horrible feeling that we will lose Muhammad Ali in 2015. The obit writers are going to have a problem as the word legend has been so debased that it’s devalued currency for the greatest sportsman ever. Even this does not him justice as he was the most famous American ever, the most [...]

December 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report

Fulham”s match was an important test, a test we failed. Of the top nine clubs, we had only beaten one, Norwich, so we had to prove that if we are to mount any sort of challenge we take points off the big boys. At the moment they do not come any bigger than Bournemouth, the surprise leaders [...]

December 27, 2014 // 0 Comments

What goes up can also come down

Spotted today upon the website of The Guardian, this thought-provoking piece by David Conn on the plight of Coventry City – once fleetingly a mighty force in football’s landscape – which has now fallen upon harder times as (most recently) a tenant of nomadic rugby Premiership [...]

December 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

A chance discovery

By choice, my family and I are having a quiet Christmas – both my wife’s and my own mother having passed away in the past twelve months. However, it was pleasing to receive a “Have you seen this?” email from my brother yesterday, linking me to a piece by Graham Fraser [...]

December 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

Hyppia resigns

Managers rarely resign as to do so waives their claim for compensation so if Sami Hyppia did in fact resign- as seems the case – this is a honourable act. Opinion is still divided as to whether he is responsible for the team’s decline or this is an inevitable product of selling our best [...]

December 23, 2014 // 0 Comments

A festive snore-fest

As the mass of spectators moved slowly out of the stands last night to the Stoop’s long-favoured accompaniment of Reef’s 1996 raw, edgy belter Place Your Hands On –  with its infectious refrain exhorting “Put Your Hands On!”, which for over a decade I had misheard as “Put [...]

December 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report

This 4-0 thumping of Sheffield Wednesday was arguably the performance of the season. Wednesday had only conceded 16 goals all season so to let in 25% of that sum  was always something. Yet as much praise must go to our defence which has kept a clean sheet two games running. Football is such an odd [...]

December 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

Some people need to grow up

Apparently the news that Formula One motor racing champion Lewis Hamilton was anointed as the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year last weekend has caused a bit of a hoo-hah. There are a number of professional golfers (professional and otherwise), plus golfing and other sports journalists who, some [...]

December 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

Is that it?

Last night my brother and I nipped down to the London Irish ground at Hazelwood in Sunbury-on-Thames for the last Premiership A League match of 2014. We’d been warned by the Quins website to arrive early because car parking at the ground was limited (that information was correct) and so – [...]

December 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

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