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An evening at the Stoop

Preoccupied with email correspondence, last night I suddenly ‘came to’ at about 6.50pm, realised that it was only 40 minutes to kick-off in the Quins versus Bristol ‘A’ league friendly match, and had to get a wriggle on to get to the Stoop in time. With apologies for repeating myself, I [...]

January 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

A trip to the Midlands

For reasons of mutual interest which need not concern my readers, yesterday I collected my brother in Putney in south-west London at 9.00am and drove to Rugby School in Warwickshire in order to watch a school rugby match between Rugby and Sedbergh. Within less than a minute of setting off from my [...]

January 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

A great day I chose to miss

Yesterday another raucous full house at the Stoop witnessed one of its ‘special days’ as the Harlequins, against all pundits’ predictions including my own, spanked the in-form Leicester Tigers by a margin of 32-12 for a four-try bonus point win to lift them from 8th to 7th in the [...]

January 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

Rugby still has medical work to do

Last night I began watching the Gloucester versus Saracens Premiership rugby match being relayed live from Kingsholm by BT Sport. After a while, not fully engaged by its entertainment and having other domestic distractions I went to bed …and  thereby missed by a few minutes the sight of Ben [...]

January 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

The time for all good men to pull their finger out

Happy New Year, everyone! It’s now back-to-work time and the business end of the rugby season. Sadly, the Harlequins have been resolutely stuck in second gear this term. After 12 rounds of matches, we’re languishing in 8th position in the Premiership, albeit at least we have it in our own hands [...]

January 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

A near-perfect afternoon

Cold temperatures and winds outside in West Sussex, the food shopping done, a gin & tonic plus two glasses of very acceptable claret and a butternut-squash soup and baguette lunch in your stomach, a bright wood-burning fire blazing in the grate and BT Sport’s live coverage of Harlequins v [...]

December 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

A chance discovery

By choice, my family and I are having a quiet Christmas – both my wife’s and my own mother having passed away in the past twelve months. However, it was pleasing to receive a “Have you seen this?” email from my brother yesterday, linking me to a piece by Graham Fraser [...]

December 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

A festive snore-fest

As the mass of spectators moved slowly out of the stands last night to the Stoop’s long-favoured accompaniment of Reef’s 1996 raw, edgy belter Place Your Hands On –  with its infectious refrain exhorting “Put Your Hands On!”, which for over a decade I had misheard as “Put [...]

December 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

Is that it?

Last night my brother and I nipped down to the London Irish ground at Hazelwood in Sunbury-on-Thames for the last Premiership A League match of 2014. We’d been warned by the Quins website to arrive early because car parking at the ground was limited (that information was correct) and so – [...]

December 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

Away with an excuse

This doesn’t sound entirely rational but, having just returned from a two-man 24-hour trip to Dublin for the European Rugby Champions Cup group stage clash between Leinster and Harlequins, last night I sat down and watched my long-form recording of the BT Sport coverage in order to gain a better [...]

December 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

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