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The power and influence of the National Rust, now building upon its daily readership of 1.584 million, continues to confound even our own expectations. Barely 24 hours after my demand that the rugby authorities should investigate Saturday’s savage and unsavoury Premiership clash between [...]

April 14, 2014 // 0 Comments

Rugby culture hypocrisy

You may call me sad if you wish, but – in classic ‘busman’s holiday’ mode – at 3.00pm yesterday afternoon I settled down to watch BT Sport’s ‘live’ coverage of the Premiership match between Gloucester and Bath. I could have gone shopping, prepared the family evening meal, done the [...]

April 13, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report

Once again Felix Magath baffled us when he switched to a new system of 3-5-1-1 with one of our best players, Lewis, withdrawn more into deeper midfield. It seems to baffle the boys too as, without two fine saves by Stockdale, we could have been trailing 2-0 at half time. Yet it was us that took [...]

April 13, 2014 // 0 Comments

Quins-watch (20): The importance of belief

For logistical reasons, nobody in their right mind would choose their sport to be played on a Friday. Last night, given that the Harlequins had travelled the best part of 200 miles ‘Oop North’ to take on Sale Sharks in a dog-eat-dog clash that would leave one of them out of Premiership [...]

April 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

Track and field takes another hit

Continuing our series on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport, here’s a report on the 18 months ban announced yesterday on Asafa Powell for his alleged use of the stimulant oxilofrine. He, naturally, disputes both the finding of guilt and the sentence. See here – THE GUARDIAN [...]

April 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Masters

The azaleas are out again for the most traditional and beautiful of all the Majors. It’s an open field that favours a power game and risk-taker. Players with a fine short game, like Mike Weir and Zach Johnson, have donned the green jacket but it’s usually a power-hitter. I would have [...]

April 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

The sacking of Chris Hughton

After the sacking of Chris Hughton there is not one black manager in all four divisions. Another Chris, Chris Powell the popular manager of Charlton, was sacked a few months ago. Robin Scott-Elliot argued in yesterday’s Independent that there should be an affirmative discrimination [...]

April 9, 2014 // 1 Comment

Here’s another one …

More in sorrow than anger, today the National Rust records the drugs offence ban recently imposed upon Jamaican sprinter Sherone Simpson. No need to highlight that the sport concerned is track and field – and Jamaica – again. Nor that, as occurs with nearly every punishment dished [...]

April 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Grand National Men

I can claim acquaintanceship with two of the key personalities of this year’s Grand National. The first is Lord Daresbury, effectively Lord Grand National. He was at the same college as me at Cambridge although I did not know him well.  He was Peter Greenall then, the heir of the brewery [...]

April 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

The BBC catches a crab

A side-product of having a hobby interest is that, however weak your understanding of it in the vast scheme of such things, you do tend to be able to spot or hear a factual mistake when one occurs. Having been researching First World War soldiers on and off for over twenty years, I have acquired [...]

April 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

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