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Saturday TV sport

Rather like the modern type of restaurant that serves tables all morning, afternoon, evening and night – during which time service declines – the televised sport I watched yesterday got worse as it went on. The best was indubitably Ireland’s first ever rugby union victory over the All [...]

July 10, 2022 // 0 Comments

More England rugby woes

England have now suffered four consecutive defeats. Most of my rugby pals shared my pessimism in the build-up and were critical of Eddie Jones. On Saturday, England failed to beat a 14 man team – not of the highest rank – who lost their fly half to injury in the warm up. The [...]

July 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

Tempus keeps fugitting …

Life has a habit of throwing up happy accidents and/or random interventions that either prove to be decidedly fortuitous or indeed quite the opposite. Only the other day the publisher of this organ mentioned in a conversation that its founders’ original mission had only ever been “to do [...]

July 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sporting pictures in the mind

For what it’s worth – despite my Rust editorial responsibilities – I have to confess that my original plan for yesterday afternoon had not involved sport at all. There was plenty of it going on – the women’s rugby league international between England and France, the rugby union [...]

June 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Premiership play offs

Yesterday I watched both Premiership Rugby semi-finals, the first Saracens v Harlequins in the company of Derek Williams. We are both fully paid up members of TV-watching as opposed to the stadium attending. We enjoyed the build up with some toasted panini and San Pellegrino Limonatas. In fact the [...]

June 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

The place of sport in life

Some might argue that the belief held by some that world sports constitute little more than contests between power-hungry nations vying for global pride, supremacy, power, influence and control continued by means other than war has been somewhat undermined by events over the last 100 days in [...]

June 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

Saturday Sport

The Heineken final – in which La Rochelle beat Leinster 24-21 – offered much better fare than the other final in Paris. The rugby final was enthralling, reflecting and showcasing the superb state of French rugby. Leinster under Stuart Lancaster are no mean side and led till the end. La [...]

May 29, 2022 // 0 Comments

Harlequins 28 Gloucester 24

I must speak to Pargie ( John Pargiter) and ask him the odds for Harlequins losing at halftime and winning at full time.  Not great I imagine as except for the recent 31-32 defeat by Northampton Saints , it happens  seemingly every game. The Harlequins powers -that – be took a risk by [...]

May 22, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Quins factor

It barely becomes anyone, still less me, to strike a bum note after watching the Harlequins execute yet another of their now routine “coming back from being all but dead and buried on the scoreboard only to snatch victory at the death with another of their harum-scarum all-out attacking blitz” [...]

May 22, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sporting issues this weekend

The narrow victory of Northampton Saints (32/31) over Harlequins was enthralling, confirming my view that the most enjoyable sport currently on offer is to be found in the Rugby Premiership. This is subject to one caveat: the uncontested scrum. I checked the rationale for this with Derek Williams. [...]

May 1, 2022 // 0 Comments

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