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A media/sporting oddity

With my apologies in advance for stepping gingerly into our esteemed sports editor’s domain, this morning I wanted to bring to Rusters’ notice an example of media coverage that – for those who might wish to consider such things – highlights some of the difficult and [...]

January 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

A star is born

The cliche goes “It’s all about getting bums on seats”. I disagree. It’s about getting bums off seats. It’s about those sportsmen and women that enthrall with their talent. Off the top of my head, I think of Pele, George Best, Viv Richards, Shane Warne and Barry John. See here – [...]

January 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

A wet and unsatisfying trip to the Stoop

Yesterday I was in a party of five – three of them Exeter Chiefs supporters – that travelled to the Harlequins home ground in cold, blustery and super-wet conditions for a English Premiership clash resulting in a closely fought 14-12 victory for the hosts. It is a fact of sporting life that [...]

January 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

Weekend sport

Once again sandwiched between two Premiership soccer matches of high fliers another Premiership match – the rugby variety – provided me with the best entertainment when Harlequins left Kingsholm with a narrow victory (20-17) over Gloucester. Winning at Kingsholm is never easy but all [...]

January 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

Big Game 13 (looking back)

Today I am taking up my esteemed sports editor Mr Hollingworth’s general invitation issued to Rust contributors who might like to post upon the subject of England Premiership club Harlequins’ Big Game 13 which took place last Monday (27th December) at RFU Twickenham. The ‘Big Game’ concept [...]

December 29, 2021 // 0 Comments

The sporting day

My day starts in the early hours with the Test Match commentary. The written press is one day behind and if England did not have such a disastrous final hour – losing 4 wickets – their doom and gloom would have looked foolish. Jimmy Andersen has come in for lot of flak – [...]

December 28, 2021 // 0 Comments

The Flying Prince (book review)

As someone who has penned the odd item intended for public consumption myself, not just my membership of the mythical “writers’ union” makes me generally wary of offering criticism of the efforts of my fellow authors and/or scribes. And so it is today with a degree of humility and trepidation [...]

December 26, 2021 // 0 Comments

Saturday sport

My Saturday sport fest begins at 3-30am following the second Ashes Test match on the radio. I prefer the radio to BT sport as there are no adverts and – except for the curmudgeonly Ian Chappell who has taken over the Boycott (highly but boringly critical) mantle – enjoy the [...]

December 19, 2021 // 0 Comments

My TV sporting weekend

I’m not the biggest fan of Formula One, regarding it as no more than a sponsored procession and lacking that essential ingredient of sport – ebb and flow. However, the publicity got the better of me and at 1.00 pm for the final Grand Prix at Abu Dhabi  I was tuned into Radio 5 and Channel [...]

December 13, 2021 // 0 Comments

And now for the Six Nations …

With the Northern Hemisphere’s autumn international series now concluded the question now to be addressed is in what state the home nations (and France) have emerged as we enter the two and a half month “fallow period” before the commencement of the 2022 Six Nations tournament. The first [...]

November 22, 2021 // 0 Comments

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