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Drugs-watch

Inevitably, the use of drugs in sport is neither confined to performance-enhancing substances nor humans. Horse-racing has a long and notorious history of both doping and managing to fudge embarrassing scandals. I’ve heard it said, by those who know a lot more about the ‘sport of kings’ than [...]

March 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report

It’s a case of back to square one, or the bottom 18, as this performance was palpably worse than the last home one – when Rene Meulensteen was in charge – and we narrowly lost to Liverpool. Bizarrely, Felix Magath dropped Lewis Holtby, who appeared to be his lieutenant on the [...]

March 2, 2014 // 2 Comments

Quins-watch (16) – just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse

It may seem somewhat counter-intuitive, but there is a distinct reason why I wish to begin my piece upon yesterday’s Premiership clash between Harlequins and bottom-of-the-table Worcester Warriors with a representative example of a professional journalist’s report of the game from the website [...]

March 2, 2014 // 0 Comments

From playing to punditry

The fall-out from the abrupt removal of Kevin Pietersen from the elite England cricket squads – a decision I support, incidentally – continues to ripple across the media pages and airwaves. See here for the latest, as described in an article that appears today on the website of the DAILY [...]

March 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina File

I thought you all might be interested in a recent development at Fiorentina.  The system of support  is a different model  to yours. There is a network of supporters clubs normally characterised by location, for example there is A Viola Club of London, but it could be a place of work. There is [...]

February 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

Working hard to catch up

With only a few weeks to go until the opening Grand Prix of the 2014 Formula One season, the Red Bull team is currently in a spot of difficulty with the development of its new car – see here for an article upon the problem on the website of the Daily Telegraph today – RED BULL ISSUES [...]

February 27, 2014 // 0 Comments

Respecting the referee

After a weekend in the county, yesterday I finally got around to reading my copy of the latest The Rugby Paper, rugby union’s weekly newspaper. One of its articles was a full-page diatribe by a regular contributor against the increasing preponderance of on-field chat/advice to the referee [...]

February 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

Drugs in sport (again)

We learn today that the Court of Arbitration for Sport has cleared the two-time Olympic 200 metres champion Veronica Campbell-Brown to compete again with immediate effect, after she had earlier received a two-year ban for a performance-enhancing drugs offence. I cast no aspersions at Ms [...]

February 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

Quins-watch (15) – The glass is half-full, of course

The business end of the rugby season is now upon us and, right on cue, the Harlequins have just slipped from fourth position in the Premiership to fifth, defeated away at Gloucester last weekend. A fair assumption being that Northampton Saints and ‘Saffra-cens’  – a common reference to [...]

February 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

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