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The fascination of chess

There are three distinct phases to a chess game: the opening, middle and end game. I say “distinct” as in separate: however, a weak opening positionally will set you back in the middle game and many an end game is already lost in the middle game. The Grandmasters will study the openings for [...]

December 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

My betting weekend

I switched my strategy on football from backing against favourites to betting on the draw. When you back against a favourite, you have two chances – a loss or draw – but with my latter option just the one. There is always the variable of VAR but the odds generally around 5-2 are [...]

December 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

Las Vegas Raiders 25 Miami Dolphins 26/American football

As far as I know American Football has never been covered on the Rust. When I was on the Express Sport Desk I got this gig only because I had a relative with a condo in Fort Lauderdale and watched the Miami Dolphins in the old Joe Robbie Stadium twice. Like many I followed the Channel 4 coverage in [...]

December 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 0 Southampton 0

It will not be long before the doomsayers – a group neither short nor few in Fulham – are criticising the team for negativity, forgetting the start of the campaign, or perhaps being the very same people that castigated Scott Parker and his team for conceding 10 goals in their opening [...]

December 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

Sport and drugs – a slight and unhappy update

On the Rust – taking the view as we do that the sanctity of a “level playing field” is absolute when it comes to sporting contests – we maintain a clear and unforgiving attitude towards the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport in order to cheat and therefore gain victory, whether [...]

December 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Brighton Tigers remembered

My city Brighton has always punched above its weight sporting-wise. If your ask any Brightonian sports lover of a certain generation for its greatest side as likely as not they would not cite Brighton HAFC, who reached the Cup Final in 1983 (‘and Smith must score”), nor the Sussex CCC for [...]

December 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

Spotted on the internet

As we reach the silly stage of the festive season, here are some items of potential interest to regular Rusters that I came across during my overnight tour of the newspaper websites: SIR PETER JACKSON PROVIDES AND UPDATE ON FORTHCOMING BEATLES DOCUMENTARY Following on from his highly-acclaimed 2018 [...]

December 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

Golfing review of 2020

With only one Major cancelled, The Open at Royal St. George’s, I  must start by congratulating the US PGA and the European Tour in putting on such a full schedule. My golfer of the year was the evergreen Lee Westwood, some 27 years after he started on tour he won the race to Dubai and featured [...]

December 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Newcastle United 1 Fulham 1

Once again the refereeing was the talking point – not an entertaining match, not a rejuvenated Fulham. With the way things are going I fear for football as a spectator sport. We have for the first time political statements being made pre-match; VAR is totally spoiling the flow of the match; [...]

December 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 0 Brighton 0

I like to predict the cliche that the media will use to describe this dreadful match and “After the Lord Mayor’s Show” springs to mind. It’s entirely Fulhamish (the old telegram address at Craven Cottage and used to describe Fulham’s unpredictability) to play so well against Liverpool and [...]

December 17, 2020 // 0 Comments

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