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Brighton Races

I do not believe I have ever posted on one of my sporting passions, horse racing. Yesterday I had a meeting with the event executive who last season was mine hostess at the Players Club Bar of Sussex CCC  and was universally popular for her cheerfulness and friendliness. Not unnaturally she [...]

February 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina 1 Spurs 1

I was discussing the game earlier in the week with John Pargiter. Both teams are going for a Champions League position and in the case of Spurs the FA Cup too, so I was unsure how seriously they would treat this Europa League competition. I liked the description of it by one Fiorentina blogger as [...]

February 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard / Marcus at the Berkeley

I remember the Berkeley in the eighties as a sort of Savoy Grill where the great and the good gathered. The food was reliable, the service good and the comfort level high. It epitomised top quality hotel dining. Since that time the restaurant has had various names, cuisines and identities but it [...]

February 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Buying a greyhound

The debate on attendance v tv watching continues to rage over the columns of the Rust and I thought I might add my ha’pporth in a new dimension, namely ownership.  I suggested to the editor that the Rust might own a sporting animal as funds don’t run to a football club. He thought [...]

February 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina file

Fiorentina beat Inter 2-1 and are fourth. It was an important victory to keep alive our aspirations to achieve a Champions League position. It reflects the decline of Italian football and that we only now have 3 Champions League places in serie a. Inter scored first, then Borja Valero equalised [...]

February 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Drama at Pebble Beach

Pebble Beach is arguably the most beautiful course in the world and the ATT event was worthy of it. It went to the wire. Phil Mickelson led the field going into the final round but started poorly. He was 2 strokes behind leader in the clubhouse Vaughan Taylor and need two birdies in the last three [...]

February 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brighton and Fulham triumph

Whilst Alan, Stefano and I are fanatically loyal to our teams there is much support of each others’. Alan, having trekked up from the South Coast to attend the memorial service of Jimmy Hill, did not fancy another early morning trip to West London to see Fulham at QPR. I invited him to mine [...]

February 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Jimmy Hill memorial service

Yesterday I was privileged to attend the memorial service of Jimmy Hill at Coventry Cathedral. It’s often said that you invariably find out something about a person you never knew at such an event and this was no exception. Surprisingly so as his achievements and legacies are so well [...]

February 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Big Short

The Big Short came highly recommended but by those who worked in and understood the financial world. For those like me who do neither it’s all somewhat confusing. As I understand it, or more accurately as Bob Tickler helpfully explained, American high risk mortgages called sub prime carried [...]

February 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Players Club pre season event

Last night in a pub in Hove the new head coach Mark Davis and director of cricket Keith Greenfield of Sussex CCC participated in an informal gathering with our Players Club. We are a social bunch and it does not require too much excuse to hold an event. I will not go into too much detail as firstly [...]

February 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

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