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An Evening of Magic

This year Sussex CCC does not have a cricketer as beneficiary but rather its charity the Sussex Charitable Foundation.  David Bowden who is active in both the Cricket and  SCF and a talented magician to boot organised an evening of magic at the Hove Ground last night for the SCF to which I was [...]

April 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Eye in the Sky

If Bastille Day left me without any after taste of thought, you could not say the same with Eye in the Sky a film that was troubling in the issues it raised. In brief a combined US, British and Kenyan military operation has to evaluate whether a drone missile should destroy a house inNarobi [...]

April 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Moses leaves the EU

I wished my brother a Happy Passover and he informed me of a topical subject he had covered in an article for his synagogue magazine. In my opinion it merits the wider platform of the National Rust … Moses plans exit from the Egyptian Union( EU) In a rare interview with your special [...]

April 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Bastille Day

If you like high octane action films where you suspend belief on the plot this is for you. Idris  Elba plays a one man army (Briar) in Paris believing a pickpocket is not a terrorist. Young French Canadian actress Charlotte le Bon will not commit the bombing of right wing political headquarters [...]

April 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

Who knows best

When I started to write for the Rust I was attracted by the fact that supporters as much as sportswriters contributed. Over the years I have found and used a cadre of loyal fans who know as much if not more than those that have played the game. After the Brighton victory I had a long chat with [...]

April 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

Films on the Riviera

Bob Tickler asked me to recommend films set on the Riviera to remind him of his recent successful trip there. I came up with To Catch a Thief the 1955 Alfred Hitchcock directed movie starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly and the more recent Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Michael Caine and Steve Martin. [...]

April 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brighton 4 QPR 0

Brighton’s season can be divided into 3 distinct seasons. We began with a long unbeaten run but won every game by the odd goal; we went through a bad run of nine games without a win which coincided with numerous injuries; a final spell in which we are scoring freely. Brighton have now scored [...]

April 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sussex v Essex

The second division of the Championship is the poor relative of the cricket competitions meriting a wrap-up paragraph at the rear of the sports pages. One of these reasons for this is that a second division side can  still complete in the white ball competitions, indeed all 4 finalists in the [...]

April 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Golfing Weekend

There were two surprise winners over the weekend, Andrew Johnston, his maiden win on the Spanish Open and Branden Grace in the USPGA at Hilton Head. The other surprising element of the Spanish Open was that the winner carded an over the par total, the first time this has happened since Justin Rose [...]

April 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Going to the dogs

No I’m not talking about Fulham’s season but Robert Tickler’s dog, who won four on the trot before he acquired him, has yet to win for his new master. Last night at Hove he finished third. When I met Ted Dexter in Nice I asked him about greyhounds of which he owned several  and [...]

April 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

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