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I totally agree wiht Tom Hollingsworth that in calling the first Test between the British Lions and the All Blacks the so called experts got it spectacularly wrong. Of the 10 experts consulted in the Telegraph special supplement , Sir Ian McGeechan, Brian Moore and rugby correspondent Mick Cleary [...]

June 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

The First Test

In the 55 years or so I have been watching and reporting on sport there is one constant. When a British sportsman or team is well beaten by overseas opposition , in the navel gazing afterwards the quality of that opposition is understated. I first appreciated this when boxer John H Stracey of whom [...]

June 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Well, someone’s going one-down on Saturday

These are heady days for Northern Hemisphere rugby in terms of how we’re getting on as regards our annual summer tours to the bottom end of the globe. It’s all down to the results, of course, perhaps with a bit of adrenalin-pumped anticipation thrown in to the effect that – even if [...]

June 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Some encouraging TV rugby

[For those sports fans who did not watch British television coverage of what happened on the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand and England tour to Argentina yesterday, please refer to the match reports in your newspapers of choice. My following reflections are based exclusively upon my [...]

June 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

Leaving home

Last week I effectively ended my quarter of a century affiliation to Harlequins FC by not renewing my season ticket for the 2017/2018 season by the well-publicised deadline date. I shall remain a member of the club but I shall no more – well, hang on, even I cannot quite rule out ever – go down [...]

June 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

Tuning in on a Saturday morning

There was a point last year at which my husband and I had a semi-serious discussion about joining a tour taking British and Irish Lions fans to New Zealand. This arose from a small dinner party chez nous post-food relaxed discussion about our contemplated ‘retirement’ years and a challenge [...]

June 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

Calm before the storm

Last night I watched my recording of Beneath the Black: A Journey Through New Zealand Rugby, a Sky Sports documentary produced as part of the build-up to the opening of the British and Irish Lions tour of that country that begins tomorrow at the Toll Stadium in Whangarei (North Island) with a [...]

June 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sometimes you just have to give credit

Yesterday, despite the attractions of the sunny weather on the south coast, I strapped myself in and watched the European Rugby Champions Cup Final (kick-off 5.00pm at Murrayfield) ‘live’ on BT Sport from end to end. It was won for the second year running by Saracens, this time by the margin of [...]

May 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

The mince-grinder of sporting success

The English Premiership season is drawing to its play-off stage and, appropriately perhaps, the one thing that can be said for those clubs involved [Wasps, Exeter Chiefs Saracens and Leicester Tigers] is that – over the course of the competition – there can be no dispute that the best four are [...]

May 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

A day out in Northamptonshire

Saturday 6th May 2017: Aviva Premiership Round 22: Northampton Saints v Harlequins at Franklin’s Gardens; Result – Northampton Saints 22: Harlequins 20: Northampton Saints 4 league points, Harlequins 1 losing bonus point. Final league positions – Harlequins 52 points, Northampton Saints 52 [...]

May 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

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