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West Ham United 0 Brighton 3

The wiseacres say that to stay up Brighton must win the necessary points at home. Our away form – one point, one goal – has been unconvincing but I had a good feeling prior to the West Ham match last night after a large gin and tonic (this column is sponsored by Hendricks and Fevertree) [...]

October 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Dame on the Train

Yesterday I had an odd experience that might have happened on the start of a Hitchcock film whilst travelling up to London on Southern Railway. I was co-organising a dinner later that evening and looking forward to a leisurely journey. I had started the Telegraph crossword but was put off by a [...]

October 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Champions League- a new English dawn?

The front page of the Telegraph sport section exulted over the results and performances of English clubs in the Champions League last Tuesday night. From the comfort of my sofa I watched most of the televised marches on BT Sport and I cannot share that optimism. One must remember we are in the [...]

October 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Sporting Calendar 2018

Yesterday my Economist desk diary arrived containing all manner of statistics, almost all of which I will scarcely read let alone use. However it’s an exciting day for me as I write in the dates of the key sporting events of 2018. At my age I am grateful to be writing anything in at all. 2018 [...]

October 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

My Sporting Weekend

Final scores may be dramatic but they are not much help to the sporting flutterer, like me. Everton at evens seems a juicy lay to me. Things are not good in the state of Goodison, they have had the Rooney debacle and rumours are emerging that the team don’t care for the disciplinarian Ronnie [...]

October 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report / Fulham 2 Preston 2

One of the most compelling of any sporting dramas is the late score. At Fulham we recall John Mitchell’s last minute off-the -shoulder number to beat Birmingham which achieved us our first appearance in a Cup Final in 1975. Older fans will remember an incredible game against Everton in 1966 [...]

October 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

Table Manners/ Chichester Festival Theatre

Alan Ayckbourn is the supreme and sublime observer of middle class life which might explain his enduring appeal as the only seat to be had in the auditorium was next to me as I quite forgot I purchased  two sometime ago. Table Manners is part of the Norman Conquest trilogy though oddly you  can [...]

October 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

Peter Sellers

I was composing a piece in my study on the history of the casting couch in Hollywood and the bullying autocrat when my wife Gail stuck her head around the door to say that unless I created space in the planner section for her recording of Strictly she would delete several of the 20 or so episodes [...]

October 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

Cloudstreet/Tim Winton

Tim Winton is an Australian writer rapidly acquiring a fine reputation. His novels are set in Perth, Western Australia and Cloudstreet is the first I have read. It was recommended to me by a university friend who spoke very highly of him. It covers the period from World War Two to the 60s when [...]

October 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

Judgment at Nuremberg (1962)

Spencer Tracy was unquestionably a Hollywood great, both a fine actor and a big star though not possessing the conventional hunky good looks of some box office male stars. His career was however, rocked if not racked by excessive drinking and a catholic guilt over his 26 year old affaire with [...]

October 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

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