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Adapting creative ideas from the past for future exploitation

Down at the coast for the next ten days to sail, I spent most of yesterday on the Mountfield sit-upon motor-mower, playing catch-up on the ‘painting the Forth Bridge’ chore of clipping the various lawns. The Mountfield does the business okay but, from a layman’s perspective, comes with an [...]

June 14, 2014 // 0 Comments

Analysing the analysts

There was an excellent tribute yesterday at lunch time on Test Match Special to John Arlott. Aside from the poetic quality of his commentary and his Hampshire burrh, Arlott  also had the gift of saying nothing. I had the privilege of knowing Ken Wolstenholme who, when he gave lectures on [...]

June 14, 2014 // 0 Comments

Not being there

You know how sometimes, quite by chance, you surprise yourself by suddenly contemplating one of the deep mysteries of existence? You know the sort of thing – why am I here? Where was I before I was born? If the Big Bang was the start of everything, what was happening before – something must [...]

June 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

Fancy a flutter?

I am no great admirer of a flutter on football because of the variables of injury, sendings off and poor refereeing. Furthermore, the best team – which Brazil were in 1982 – do not necessarily win. The pundits favour Argentina, but the trick is to identify the dark horse that [...]

June 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

Once more into the shoot out

Although there seems to be a change of attitude by not going into the World Cup gung-ho with the familiar war metaphors, there is still a feeling that England may surprise a few. Get real. We have only won one tournament in history, when we played every game on a sapping Wembley pitch and we [...]

June 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

The attraction of uncertainty

One of the eternally-fascinating aspects of sport is its unpredictability – and I’m not saying that from a punter’s perspective because I’m not a betting girl. Last Sunday Jensen Button began the last lap of the Montreal (Canadian) Grand Prix in 8th place and – through no intervention of [...]

June 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

Brede adieu

The decision to terminate the services of Fulham club skipper Brede Hangeland has not gone down well with either Brede or the fans. It’s a sad reflection of where our club is now that someone who served the club for five years, was one of our best-ever defenders and club captain, should get [...]

June 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

Strap yourselves in!

Family considerations already taken into account, I shall be up early  – well 0800 hours  UK time  – on Saturday 7th June in order to watch Sky Sport’s ‘live’ coverage of the first of three rugby tests that England play on their tour of New Zealand. In this piece I shall make [...]

June 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

Ray Lewington

There was an excellent interview in the Telegraph yesterday by Henry Winter of Ray Lewington. What a career he has had. It detailed his years as player and manager at Fulham, where times were so hard that his wife Ann had to wash the team kit. He is now the respected number two to Roy Hodgson. [...]

June 3, 2014 // 1 Comment

Getting a grip

Whilst I could not claim that it is a particular interest of mine, I find I have no shortage of opinions upon football matters. [That fact is one of life’s little oddities, isn’t it? As a general rule, the more you know about a subject, the harder it is to reach an absolute truth upon it.] [...]

June 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

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