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A study in movement

Despite having declared my brain a Commonwealth Games-free zone earlier this summer, yesterday – for want of anything more constructive to do – I switched to BBC1 and watched both the men’s and women’s triathlon events whilst simultaneously doing other things, e.g. flicking through the [...]

July 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

Coming up fast

With Jessica Ennis-Hill on a year out of competition to have her recent baby, since January the 21 year-old rising English heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson had been promoted as one of the Commonwealth Games poster girls and favourite for the gold medal. Sadly, on the eve of the  the Games [...]

July 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

Phew! At least that’s over …

Natural cynic that I am, any review I might have attempted of last night’s Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony – reputedly beamed live to over 1 billion viewers throughout the Commonwealth – was always destined to be awarded a disappointing ‘5’ upon a scale of ten. And ‘5’ is what I [...]

July 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

A visit to the Amex stadium

I had already booked a stadium tour of the Amex stadium, the home of Brighton and Hove Albion. No – I have not deserted my beloved Fulham after 50 years but, now having a property nearby, they are my local side. If you take season tickets as the measuring stick, Brighton are the seventh [...]

July 24, 2014 // 1 Comment

An experience in the round

Yesterday to Guildford, in order to watch the second of a four-day county cricket match between Surrey and Kent in a party hosted by an eminent Surrey CCC grandee. Driving home afterwards, I tried to think of the last time I had taken time out to watch a county game. I think it may have been a [...]

July 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

Golf betting update

I would like to be a fly on the wall of the Steve Palmer of Racing Post household during the World Cup final shoot out. Readers will recall that he needed the £6000 win on his wager on Argentina to pay for his wedding and honeymoon. I said to my missus that at least he would have won on Brian [...]

July 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

Soccer suggestions

Having happily watched more of the soccer World Cup than I had expected, I was struck by a couple of differences between the rules applying to soccer and rugby. With the benefit of a general lack of understanding of soccer’s traditions and culture in my locker, it seemed to me that soccer might [...]

July 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

Couch potato

There has been a debate on these pages on the relative advantages of attending an event or watching it on tv. Yesterday I wanted to follow three sporting events: the second Test against India, a crucial mountain stage of the Tour de France and the second day of the Open at Hoylake. I [...]

July 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

Brede goes public

  Fulham legend Brede Hangeland criticised Felix Magath and the club in an interview on Sky Sports, over his notification by email to go and the stern style of the manager. Reading the Fulham Independent forum, opinion is divided. On one hand, fans say that at 33 he was over the hill and did [...]

July 10, 2014 // 3 Comments

Let’s be honest for once

Yesterday, having rather enjoyed ITV’s early coverage of the Tour de France opening stage, mostly because it reconnected me with the wonders of the Yorkshire countryside, my next television ‘must see’ was the 5.00pm soccer World Cup quarter-final between Argentina and Belgium. Accordingly, I [...]

July 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

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