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Midnight in Berlin/James MacManus

I very much enjoyed Sleep in Peace Tonight by James MacManus , built around Harry Hopkins, envoy of President Roosevelt’s trip to London in 1941. So when the helpful people at Amazon as part of their “If you liked X ,  you would like Y ‘ service, recommended his Midnight in [...]

May 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Cup Final

The Cup Final as already observed by Gerald Ingolby was a dull affaire that did little to enhance a competition that has seen better days. The reasons for the decline of the FA Cup are well documented: the plethora of televised football; the lack of a Champions League place for the winner; the [...]

May 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

Old Fulham Meets

Yesterday I had lunch with 2 fully paid up members of old Fulham. They soon established their Craven Cottage cred by stating they had skived off school to watch the 1958 semi final replay with Manchester United which, as it took place after Munich, the whole of the country  except our fans wanted [...]

May 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

TMS

You can feel summer is a-coming when TMS returns to the airwaves. Having  boring stuff to do at home, I switched on for the morning spell. The Sri Lankan commentator was warmly welcomed and then had to take criticism of this country’s bowling attack from Geoff  Boycott. There was much [...]

May 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Travels with My Aunt/ Chichester Festival Theatre

Once again but sadly for the last time as he is leaving the post, artistic director of the Chichester Festival Jonathan Church has come up with an enticing programme of new and old, classic and innovative, for the festival season.  I never cease to be impressed that every year in a place with an [...]

May 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Clear Day Light

Jason Day’s victory at Sawgrass, his 7th in 17th starts elevates him not just above his peers in age Rory McIlroy and Ricky Fowler but the rest of the world. Before Jordan Spieth messed up at Amen Corner one might have had him as a rival. As Sir Nick Faldo noted he is reminiscent of Ben Hogan [...]

May 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brighton 1 Sheffield Wednesday 1

So for the third time in 4 years Brighton are eliminated in the semi-final of the play offs. It may sound like sour grapes but this time it was to a team that finished 3 places and 15 points beneath them. Put another way had Brighton lost 2-0 , not 3-0, at home to Middlesbrough they would have been [...]

May 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

A NIGHT OF WHITE COLLAR BOXING

Last night Ivan Conway kindly invited me to an evening of white collar boxing at the Hilton Brighton. White collar boxers are amateurs who train with accredited coaches to acquire fitness and learn the skills of the Noble Art. The evening was also to celebrate the 50th birthday of Tony Cottey, the [...]

May 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Tony Cozier

One of the aspects of Rust writing that I appreciate is that when it comes to obituaries we do not fall victim to hyperbole and hype. Thus in the case of Tony Cozier I agreed with much that was written but not all. He was the voice of West Indian cricket, he was extremely well informed but to call [...]

May 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina file

I was in London recently for an Art fair and decided to take the short rail journey to Brighton to meet up with Alan and Ivan. We had an interesting conversation along the lines that supporting your team is about management of expectations. Ivan, for example, after a season in which Brighton spent [...]

May 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

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