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Meeting a legend

Yesterday I attended a football symposium at the Argentine embassy. It was moderated by Jimmy Burns, who wrote a biography of Diego Maradona, and attended by panelists journalist Jim White, Victor Morales, the doyen of football commentating in the Argentine, Ossie Ardiles, Ricky Villa and Angelo [...]

May 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

Here, m’Dear …

Back in the Dark Ages of the 20th Century, simply for our own enjoyment, some pals and I spent a proportion of our leisure time producing nakedly self-indulgent sports magazines – the first devoted exclusively to boxing and the second attempting to broaden our unique approach to all sports that [...]

May 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

Quins-watch (27): almost beyond belief

Strewth! No sooner than I put away my Harlequins underpants, oncie and jester’s hat, and then signed off for the season, than Stuart Lancaster announced the second batch of his England training squad for the tour of New Zealand next month. We Quins fans mustn’t get carried away, because – for [...]

May 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

Goodbye to all that

I couldn’t let the news that Australia’s legendary Grand Prix driver Jack Brabham has died aged 88 pass without comment. As a senior citizen, these days I watch modern sports heroes mostly on the television, marvelling at their skills, their finely-honed abilities … and above all, their [...]

May 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

Sussex sport

Sussex punches above its weight in sport. Brighton and Hove Albion FC is one of the best supported teams in the country, never mind the championship in which they reached the play offs: there is fine horse racing at Goodwood: Eastbourne has a leading speedway team and top level tennis is played at [...]

May 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Cup Final

On the National Rust we know the editor will only publish two offerings a day and, if you write on a conventional topic covered in the media, you have little chance. I was initally going to defend Richard Scudamore – who has done so much to take the Premier global – in the face of [...]

May 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

Quins-watch (26): over and out

I could never be a journalist because I don’t possess the dispassionate impartiality required and, of course – for me, as a fan – life is about feelings, not objectivity. Yesterday Harlequins duly succumbed to Saracens 31-17 at Allianz Park, a points margin that I’d have accepted if [...]

May 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

Missing out (again) …

All sports fans are familiar with the influence of random chance upon sporting contests. It’s part of what makes following sport such an addictive pastime, prompting in advance endless speculation about likely outcomes – up to and including betting decisions – and, after any specific contest [...]

May 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

Here we go, here we go …

Where I live in south-west London there is a natural preponderance of Harlequins and London Irish fans. The rugby community being what it is, despite the bitter rivalry between us, the ‘craic’ is more important than the relative fortunes of the clubs at any particular time. This is just as [...]

May 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

Prospects in rugby, even at the top, are limited

In 2010 I read somewhere that the average career longevity in English rugby’s Premiership was less than four seasons. Of course, the factors contributing in this brevity can range from informed personal choice (e.g. an active change of career direction, a family illness, shifting [...]

May 14, 2014 // 0 Comments

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