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Gillespie, Garton & goings on at Sussex CCC

I was going to open my post with a report on an enthralling match yesterday in which Sussex lost in the Bob Willis Trophy to Essex but this was overshadowed by the news that coach Jason “Dizzy” Gillespie is leaving the club at the end of this season. I suspect that this is one case where the [...]

August 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

Is Guardiola finished?

Pep Guardiola epitomises modern managerial cool: elegant, charming , fluent. Unlike some of his peers, he has also introduced tactics that have changed the game – like the goalkeeper who is so comfortable with the ball as to become an auxiliary defender. The stats say otherwise to the image. [...]

August 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

Sporting weekend

After my Collin Morikawa win, I salted away some of the dough to go on a shopping trip for garden furniture at B & Q with the missus but I still had enough in the war chest to lose up to last night. I backed Kevin Kisner each way for the Wyndhams who finished third and laid Manchester United [...]

August 17, 2020 // 0 Comments

Weekend media coverage of sport

Michael Henderson, in The Times yesterday, thundered against the new look TMS. He observed that it tries too hard to be funny. He rued the absence of Christopher Martin Jenkins, I agree with Henderson the ultimate flag bearer of traditional cricket, to a certain extent. Brian Johnston laid down the [...]

August 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

Barcelona- the last rites?

Bayern Munich’s 8- 2 destruction of Barcelona was not so much the end of an era as the last rites of great club that is no longer performing at the highest European level. It set me wondering about the decline and revival of the great European clubs. It all started in the old European Cup – [...]

August 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

Champions League & regrettable comment on TMS

I am getting used to the new normal of crowdless football and looked forward to the business end of the Champions League being televised from Benfica’s stadium. The competition has already thrown up a few surprises with the elimination of Real Madrid and Juventus. Thursday we saw a thoroughly [...]

August 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

English’ s

Yesterday I had my third lunch at English’s since it reopened. Why do I like the restaurant so much? They know me there and always give me my favourite table. The managers have not changed for 6 years except for Nick who passed away after leaving. The sea food is reliable. The prices are fair and [...]

August 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

Edvard Munch

Sky Arts have been running a weekly series on exhibitions by great artists and last Monday it featured the Norwegian colossus Edvard Munch. Tim Marlow interviews curators of the museum and there’s a visual treat of the pictures to view. Previous painters have been Heironymus Bosch, Edourd Manet [...]

August 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

The US PGA

Traditionally the USPGA  is always played this week and is known as Glory’s Last Shot as it’s the final Major. This year it was the first after taking up its normal slot after initially being moved to May to avoid the Olympics. Another first was for 23 year old Collin Morikawa who held [...]

August 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

First Test – some thoughts

Although  this Test did not achieve the climax of the 1963 Test v West Indies at Lords nor v Australia at Trent Bridge in 2005 it shared with them a continuity of gripping excitement every day. As at Headingly last year England chased down successfully a difficult total. At 117-5 this seemed [...]

August 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

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