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I am in the camp of watching on tv rather than attending for  the 3 Cs: cost , convenience and comfort.  With the cost of travelling and attending Cheltenham and last year’s exit problems This does create a challenge for ITV covering the Festival which they more than met. Every aspect of the [...]

Prior to Fulham ‘s comfortable win over Spurs (2-1) I watched the  big match Revisited  featuring Chelsea 1 Arsenal 2 i guess in the early 70s It would be foolish to gloss over the problems in the game then ( racism on and off the pitch ,awful stadia , little for female fans ) but nonetheless I [...]

Most of all this was a victory for the fans who surely would not have anticipated that 2,0f the four tests would have ended in 2 days. There was a debate about 5 day tests but now you would be pleased to see a third day. The only valid criticism is that the team went in undercooked and should have [...]

Casablanca which I recently watched for the umpteenth timex would surely ram as a top  ten favourite for so many film lovers.   At the time it was released  (1942) the studios were rolling out a film a week and it was not regarded as anything exceptional.  Scripts were delivered to the Warner [...]

Both regular contributors – and indeed visitors to this organ – will be aware that, for the most part, we do our level best to avoid harping back to the past when “in our day” (supposedly!) virtually every aspect of the human condition was more sensibly ordered and just [...]