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To refer … or not to refer

For my sins – including leaving my husband and kids to fend for themselves at no small cost to the quiet order of the McDonnell kitchen – I spent much of yesterday glued to the BT Sports television channel, watching first the English Premiership Final between Saracens and Northampton Saints and [...]

June 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Fings ain’t wot they used t’be

Today the England cricket team plays the latest in its One Day International series against Sri Lanka at Old Trafford. On 12th June at Leeds its equivalent will begin the First Test against the same country. Unless something extraordinary happens, I shall be watching little or nothing of either. [...]

May 31, 2014 // 0 Comments

Rory Is back

I always thought that the break up of Rory McIlroy’s relationship with his childhood sweetheart was a tad simplistic a reason for loss of form and therefore when he called if off with Caroline Woznacki there would be not be a slump in form again. It seems I was proved right as Rory has [...]

May 30, 2014 // 0 Comments

Italy file

Italy are in good shape going into the World Cup and worth a bet. We may not be as well-rated as Spain and Germany but we have many attributes. The first is our manager Cesare Prandelli, one of the best around. He managed successfully Fiorentina, never an easy  job, before becoming coach of the [...]

May 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

They’re all wrong

Having said my piece yesterday on the issue of whether newly-crowned European Player Of The Year Steffon Armitage should be considered for inclusion in England rugby squad [I’m in favour, in case you missed it], I awoke this morning to find that not only has head coach Stuart Lancaster indicated [...]

May 27, 2014 // 0 Comments

London derbies

I was disappointed that QPR won their play-off final and Leyton Orient lost theirs to deprive us of two entertaining derbies. The odd thing about QPR and Fulham is there is rarely parity between the fortunes of the two clubs. Thus in 1968-70 we had 2 relegations and QPR 2 promotions. In the last [...]

May 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

Trying to square the circle

Even though the 2013/2014 domestic rugby union season is not quite over – the Premiership Final takes place this coming Saturday – I wish to comment upon two linked issues of crucial importance to the future of the sport. The first touches upon the vexed question of whether the national rugby [...]

May 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

Two finals

Football, as the cliché goes, is a funny old game. Both finals were characterised by very late goals. Atletico Madrid seemed to have consummated an unbelievable season by winning the league and Champions League, only for Real Madrid to equalise. Their manager Diego Simeone must have been thinking [...]

May 25, 2014 // 1 Comment

Cricket and betting at Hove actually

Sitting at Hove, I found it hard to imagine that this most sedate of county grounds – with its sea air, deck chairs surrounded by the leafy streets of Hove with Jewish Sephardic names ( Goldsmid St, Avigdor St, Montefiore Place) – could produce the betting scandal that took place [...]

May 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

Peter Thomson

Peter Thomson passed away a few years ago and is much mourned and missed by the Fulham faithful. In many ways he resembled all that the club represented with his eccentricity, intelligence, whimsical books about the club and his steadfast support. He never pretended to be otherwise than a public [...]

May 23, 2014 // 0 Comments

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