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The Godfather

Yesterday was the confirmation of one of my godsons at Eton Chapel. I assumed incorrectly that this was a one to one rite of passage analogous to the Jewish Barmitzvah. In fact it was very much a “job lot” as my godson was one of thirty confirmants in  a service officiated by the [...]

March 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

George Cohen

Fulham are putting up a statue for George Cohen who will have the same sculptor Douglas Jennings as Johnny Haynes. We are all delighted for George. We can claim unlike Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs and Manchester City that we had a player in the only English team ever to have won anything. The World Cup [...]

March 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

British clubs Brexit?

It looks like when the Brexit campaign is in full swing there will be at best two British clubs left in Europe, Manchester City and one of Liverpool and Manchester United. It was a British club, Glasgow Celtic, that broke the hegemony of Southern Europe by winning the European Cup  in 1967 after [...]

March 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brighton 0 Sheffield Wednesday 0

Atrocious weather does not always make for a dreadful game of football but it did here. In 94 minutes the Seagulls did not muster one direct effort on goal and the visitors only the odd speculative shot. Nor was there one piece of individual skill. I felt sorry for my neighbour Jack who produces a [...]

March 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Adam Scott at the Helm

Adam Scott won his second successive event at the Trump Doral Blue Monster Course both predicted by Jeremy Chapman. He had not won anything previous for two years and it was thought he would continue to do so by having problems abandoning the anchored putter style he favoured. The tourney was very [...]

March 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ Forest Mere

I spent yesterday at Forest Mere with Bob. I have stayed at and written about such places. They started as essentially high-end residential weight watchers where those who are and drank too much in those  heady reckless days ( and nights !!!!) of excess of which I was a fully paid up member took [...]

March 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Forest Mere

I am taking a few days at the spa Forest Mere for some R &R. My connection with Forest Mere goes back many years. In the sixties when my father was cash-strapped after purchasing his first home aged 41 he agreed that my mother should have a break in Forest Mere then called a health farm. My [...]

March 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Look Back in Wonder

Yesterday on the BBC 4 Arts Programme Front Row I heard a clip of Look Back in Anger of Jimmy Porter fulminating against his upper class wife. The play will be running at the same theatre in Derby where its writer John Osborne once acted. It seemed very dated. This is ironic as critic Kenneth Tynan [...]

March 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

CST DINNER

Last night I attended the CST dinner at the Grosvenor House Hotel. CST (Community Security Trust) ostensibly exists to protect the Jewish community notably by providing security for synagogues but its remit is much wider. There were in the last year seven thwarted Paris style attacks. That these [...]

March 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Ernest Erbstein

Ii doubt if the name Ernest Erbstein, commonly known as Egri-Erbstein, strikes a chord with many football readers. Of our staffers only Stefano had heard of him and spoke of him in the reverential terms normally reserved for Fiorentina. He led a life that would have broken most and is the father of [...]

March 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

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