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Knocking heads together

Leaving mana-a-mano ‘fighting’ (viz. boxing and mixed marital arts contests) aside because some might argue they’re so patently dangerous to brain health that the argument is slam-dunk unanswerable, what might be termed full-on ‘physical contact’ team sports – e.g. American football, [...]

September 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

Back in the groove

Saturday 9th September 2017: Rugby Premiership: Harlequins v Gloucester at the Stoop (crowd just under 13,000). Result: Harlequins win 28-17. After two rounds of the league, Quins are now – one win, one loss – in sixth position and Gloucester in seventh. This was a heartening and much-needed [...]

September 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

It all started with a Big Bang!

Despite the many issues the sport of rugby union in England is wrestling with – the plan to impose a ‘unified’ global season, new rules for the new season, a still-developing set of concussion (head injury) protocols, the rows over the salary cap and the latest Premiership plan to ‘kill [...]

September 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

Dragging oneself to the start-line …

As my regular followers will know, I am now freed from the tyranny of season ticket holding and any obligation to actually roll up at the Stoop to watch the boys playing rugby – and what a relief that has been! Furthermore – and this would have applied anyway – in no way have I been [...]

September 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

It may not be cricket – or rugby – as we know it …

Drawing parallels between sports can be something of a fantasy pastime, especially in the 21st Century when the commercial demands of globalisation, social media and ‘instant gratification’ can seemingly send previous time-honoured cultures, folklore and traditions askew. In the UK the 1963 [...]

August 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sporting reflections upon a July weekend

Like I suspect all who regard themselves as avid sports-followers, whilst I have my favourites and my ‘avoids’ – most of them originally chosen from the array I played (or didn’t) in my schoolboy youth – if push should come to shove of a free afternoon in which to indulge myself, [...]

July 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Nobody won, but nobody lost either

Our family spent nearly three hours yesterday morning watching the final test match between the All Blacks and the British and Irish Lions, one of the most exciting games of international rugby it can ever remember. That it ended as a draw via a late and controversial referring decision by Romain [...]

July 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

The sporting weekend

One of the few ethical issues that trouble those that wager on sport is betting against your own team. On one hand there are those that say why not, winning can be a consolation for defeat on the pitch, whilst others view it as heresy. It is undoubtedly true that having a financial interest in the [...]

July 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

A long sporting day

In the old days before I wrote for the Rust and participated in the Great Debate (attendance v tv) it was a gimme that if I had a ticket – by no means easy to obtain – I would invariably go to the event. In those pre-SKY days there was virtually no live football, cricket and the BBC had [...]

July 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

The fat lady is not even in the wings yet

Make no mistake about it – and irrespective of the result of next weekend’s third and final Test match – their 24-21 epic victory over the All Blacks at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington on Saturday morning UK time will go down as one of the greatest moments in the long history of the [...]

July 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

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