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Bill Naughton

I  was asked to submit films to a list based on the theme of “As good as or better than the book on which it was based”. One of my submissions Alfie was correctly rejected as it began life not as a novel but a BBC radio play. I should have known this as the writer Bill Naughton was a [...]

May 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Rich List

My colleague yesterday jokingly referred to his absence from The Sunday Times Rich List but in so doing revealed one of its flaws – namely the reluctance to exposure of some of the very rich. Other flaws in its compilation are the absence of debt and the unreliability of valuations. I think [...]

May 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

Hitler’s Peace/Philip Kerr

Philip Kerr died a few years ago. So I was both surprised and grateful for this posthumous publication. The story is that the Nazis realised that by 1943 they could not win WW2 and devised a plot to assassinate the Big Three (Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin) at the Tehran Conference. At the same [...]

May 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

England 3 The Cameroons 2 (World Cup 1990)

In their Football Classic series ITV yesterday showed the 1990 World Cup Quarter Final between England and the Cameroons. After winning the World Cup in 1966 on home soil playing every game but one at Wembley, English national football did not fare so well. Indeed they did not even qualify for the [...]

May 17, 2020 // 0 Comments

Sporting comparisons

A quiz is doing the football rounds of an Earth best ever XI v Mars. It’s bit of fun but behind it is the serious question of comparison of players from different eras. Yesterday I was engaged in a conversation with a fellow Ruster on this very point. Great soccer players from the 60s and 70s [...]

May 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

Ten years on

Ten years ago to the month – if not the day – Fulham pulled off one of the greatest feats in the club’s history by reaching the final of the Europa League played at Hamburg against Atletico Madrid. I remember at the start of that epic campaign chatting to manager Roy Hodgson after I [...]

May 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

Cyclists – a national pest

A common theme amongst us Rusters is our dislike of cyclists. Yesterday morning I was walking alongside the sea on a wide pavement by the main coastal road. At great speed a  Cyclist came hurtling towards me. With an imperious wave he motioned me to walk 2 metres away from him. It’s bad enough a [...]

May 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

Peter Sellers

I have three none too proximate connections with Peter Sellers. My late father was once on a plane with Peter Sellers, a fellow passenger going to the South of France, when he experienced cardiac problems. My father did his best to tend to him but he was  none too impressed by celebrities as [...]

May 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

Commentators considered

Eager for some football – any football – I watched two “re-wind” programmes yesterday. The first was on the BBC and featured previous World Cups and the second in the ITV classic series the 1979 Cup Final between Arsenal and Manchester United. I recently participated in a poll [...]

May 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

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