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Brighton lose record and we lose Jimmy Hill

When John Pargiter, bereft of any decent golf, called for advice on Seagulls’ chances before the match I could not be optimistic. We had conceded 4 goals in the last two matches and were playing the league leaders Middlesbrough without Solly March, Liam Rosenior, Gaetan Bong, Sam Baldock and [...]

December 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

A regular Xmas lunch

I have been having lunch with two brothers for roughly 35 years on the last Friday before Xmas. They are a convivial pair and conversation is never an issue. Over the years we have generally met in a club, firstly the Arts Club in Dover St where I was a member, and lately the Athenaeum. When one [...]

December 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

Howard Cosell

On the Rust we often nostalgically praise the sporting commentators of the seventies. In boxing we had Harry Carpenter – not perhaps up there with Peter ‘O’Sullivan, Bill MacLaren and John Arlott – he famously called Bugner v Cooper and Ali v Frazier wrong in the same week. [...]

December 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Big Match revisited

Retro seventies ITV televison is all the rage in the Rust and these past few days I’ve been tuning into The Big Match Revisited broadcast at 6am. It’s being shown chronologically and we are now at December 1979. Two things interested me: how has football changed and how has its [...]

December 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

QPR 2 Brighton 2

The Seagulls are still unbeaten in a demanding cycle of games of Derby away, QPR away and next Saturday the big one when first placed Middlesbrough meet second (us) at the Amex. This is our fifth successive draw on the road so when Pargie called up for advice that is the obvious bet. The last three [...]

December 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Minder and the class divide

When I first started to re-watch Minder on ITV4 I was attracted by its humour both in dialogue and characterisation. Then I began to appreciate the quality of George Cole’s acting which he learned from his adopted father Alastair Sim, in particular his brilliant facial expressions. I then [...]

December 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

Juventus 3 Fiorentina 1

The one fixture that Fioretnina want to win is this one. It goes back to 1980 when the scudetto went to the last game. Juve were at Catanzaro, Fiorentina at Cagliari. Juve were awarded a penalty converted by Liam  Brady and Fiorentina refused one. Fast forward to the sale of Roberto Baggio from us [...]

December 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

A Visit to the Dripping Pan

In the never ending debate of attendance v tv watching I would like to add my ha’porth by saying that, aged 66, I still enjoy the feeling of visiting new stadium. Alan Tanner and I intend to visit the Allianz Arena and Bernabeu next year. Yesterday I went to the other extreme of the polarity [...]

December 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

Olivo

Can it be 24 years ago that Olivo in Elccleston  St first opens its doors? It soon became a groundbreaking restaurant serving Sardinian cuisine and quite different from the “in” Italian restaurant with signed photos of the stars, 12 forms of veal escalope, insalate tricalore and highly [...]

December 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

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