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Rugby may be going the way of all sports

One of the uncomfortable home truths coming home to roost in world sport in the last five years is the extent to which the powers-that-be [and in that description I include both sports administrators generally and those club owners (in team games) and personal managers (in individual sports) who [...]

September 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

No Mans Land

There is a considerable body of theatrical opinion that holds that Harold Pinter is Britain’s greatest living playwright and another less vocal one that cannot fathom his works. I belong to the second school. Last night I saw No Man’s Land at the Theatre Royal  Brighton. I was more [...]

August 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Gustav Sonata/Rose Tremain

Rose Tremain could be classified as writer of historical fiction – and a very good one – but one of her skills is her diversity. I was speaking to Neil Rosen who said much of the same of Stanley Kubrick who has directed films as different as Barry Lyndon to Dr Strangelove. I have read [...]

July 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

Progress and a disease

Yesterday afternoon I went for a walk of about half a mile along the river from my home with my daughter, partly to ‘get some air ‘ (I had barely been out all day), partly to get some exercise, and partly to experiment with how far I had come in terms of general mobility since having my hip [...]

July 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

Still rocking …

It’s always good when a fellow member of the ‘old bird’ sisterhood can still tell it like it is. I had thought that maybe I was past it – horrified by the prospects of dating an endless succession of losers after being enticed onto the supposedly fashionable internet [...]

July 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fed win and Castle controversy

John Pargiter asked my advice on betting pre-Wimbledon. I fancied Maron Cilic to win his section where Roger Federer was the highest seed. The Croatian bases his power game on his coach’s Goren Ivanosevic. I felt it was powerful enough to blow away 35 year old 7-time champion Fed. And so it [...]

July 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

The golfing weekend

One of the interesting aspects of the post-Tiger Woods golfing world is who – if any- will succeed him. One might have thought that one of the Day/Fowler and McIlroy group might push through. Dustin Johnson had the best natural game but had to confront his demons. After Day bogeyed and double [...]

July 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Harry’s Bar

When a rich and successful businessman I know suggested for his turn for lunch we go to Harry’s bar in South Audley Street my mind went back to another businessman from Birmingham who once there resolutely refused to pay for truffles on the basis there that the waiter did not explain the [...]

June 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Cup Final

The Cup Final as already observed by Gerald Ingolby was a dull affaire that did little to enhance a competition that has seen better days. The reasons for the decline of the FA Cup are well documented: the plethora of televised football; the lack of a Champions League place for the winner; the [...]

May 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brighton 1 Sheffield Wednesday 1

So for the third time in 4 years Brighton are eliminated in the semi-final of the play offs. It may sound like sour grapes but this time it was to a team that finished 3 places and 15 points beneath them. Put another way had Brighton lost 2-0 , not 3-0, at home to Middlesbrough they would have been [...]

May 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

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