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Fiddler on the Roof

Last night on Sky Arts there was a fascinating programme about the continuing appeal of Fiddler on the Roof since its first Broadway production of Jerome Robbins in 1964. Every day since then there has been a production of the musical somewhere in the world. I was fortunate to see the first London [...]

December 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

Brighton 0 Arsenal 1

My Albion supporting postman put it well when I said a week ago we are heading for a relegation dogfight “Ivan, we are already in one.” I’m getting sick and tired of the comment you hear in the media “Brighton play better football than their position suggests.” We are where we are and [...]

December 30, 2020 // 0 Comments

The fascination of chess

There are three distinct phases to a chess game: the opening, middle and end game. I say “distinct” as in separate: however, a weak opening positionally will set you back in the middle game and many an end game is already lost in the middle game. The Grandmasters will study the openings for [...]

December 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

My betting weekend

I switched my strategy on football from backing against favourites to betting on the draw. When you back against a favourite, you have two chances – a loss or draw – but with my latter option just the one. There is always the variable of VAR but the odds generally around 5-2 are [...]

December 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

Las Vegas Raiders 25 Miami Dolphins 26/American football

As far as I know American Football has never been covered on the Rust. When I was on the Express Sport Desk I got this gig only because I had a relative with a condo in Fort Lauderdale and watched the Miami Dolphins in the old Joe Robbie Stadium twice. Like many I followed the Channel 4 coverage in [...]

December 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 0 Southampton 0

It will not be long before the doomsayers – a group neither short nor few in Fulham – are criticising the team for negativity, forgetting the start of the campaign, or perhaps being the very same people that castigated Scott Parker and his team for conceding 10 goals in their opening [...]

December 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

Memories are not made of this

A frequent concern of Rusters and many seniors is forgetfulness. Is this just a senior moment or the first signs of dementia? On Christmas Eve I wanted to see Cast a Giant Shadow the stirring story of Micky Marcus (Kirk Douglas) who had decorated war service for the US Army afte the Normandy [...]

December 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

A secret Christmas Day mission

Yesterday I duly completed without incident my pre-announced illegal early morning expedition to visit my daughter and family in an area of the country that since – at one minute past midnight (i.e. into Boxing Day) – has now joined mine in Tier 4 of the Government’s latest localised [...]

December 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

Have yourself a Vermeer Xmas

For this most bizarre of Xmases I have taken Johannes Vermeer the Dutch master of the seventeenth century for company. A good friend gave me his complete works a sumptuous publication by the Art Publisher Taschen for Xmas. I have just read Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier and am now [...]

December 25, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Brighton Tigers remembered

My city Brighton has always punched above its weight sporting-wise. If your ask any Brightonian sports lover of a certain generation for its greatest side as likely as not they would not cite Brighton HAFC, who reached the Cup Final in 1983 (‘and Smith must score”), nor the Sussex CCC for [...]

December 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

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