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Some might put the following statement down to the wisdom that comes with age – it’s the kind of thing that we senior citizens tend to have to claim in a vain hope to remain relevant and/or current – but so much of life is grounded in people’s perceptions, both those we harbour ourselves [...]

There was no USPGA tourney this weekend and on the European Tour Ashan Wu narrowly defeated Chris Wood who bogeyed the 18th. Eddie Pepperell’s top five finish saved me. I had backed Sussex Sharks at 7-1 at the outset of the T20 Vitality Blast and felt quite confident after their resounding [...]

The world of professional road race cycling has a mixed public image. Its century-long historical connection with performance enhancing substances and innumerable clashes with those authorities tasked with attempting to deal with such issues in which legal threats, actual (or attempted) subterfuge [...]

This far in, I’m sure there are few Rusters – or indeed leading world sporting bodies – left unaware of our hardline stance on performing-enhancing drugs and indeed anyone (sorry Christine Ohuruogu, lovely lady no doubt, who retired from athletics last month) ever found to have [...]

They say that things happen in threes. There was Donald Duck, Howard The Duck [the Marvel Comics character of the 1970s – see his Wikipedia entry – HERE] … and now there’s Sandy The Duck, a pure-bred white Indian Runner, albeit that at this stage he’s a bright yellow in the style [...]

Last night I was privileged to join Tim Holford-Smith to see Rufus Hound star as Garry Essendine, an actor suffering something of a mid-life crisis, in the latest revival of Noel Coward’s semi-autobiographical Present Laughter at the Chichester Festival Theatre, a clever but perhaps (to 21st [...]