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Emile Griffith

Many years ago I contributed to a cult boxing magazine called Round One. This led me to undertake some research into Emile Griffith for an article entitled Emile and the Defectives, a review of his lesser known contests. Griffith was chiefly famous – or infamous- for a fight with Benny Kid [...]

December 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Bridge of Spies

Our editor is keen that we relay the experience of our field be it a restaurant dining or watching sport on tv or at the stadium. Thus Richard said to me “Neil, don’t go to the press viewing of Bridge of Spies, as you will be at the mercy of the marketing people and the critic’ [...]

December 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

The golfing weekend

Both the Hero Challenge in Bermuda  and the Nedbank at Sun City had associations with iconic golfers Tiger Woods and Gary Player. Tiger Woods and his foundation were mine host at Bermuda in an invitational  shorter numbered tourney won by Bubba Watson. He only entered at the last moment when [...]

December 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

Swarm of Seagulls

Yesterday’s 3-2 victory over Charlton was one of the best games I have seen a Brighton side play. After 5 minutes when we were two down to an enterprising Charlton team that belied their relegation postion and had unearthed from park football a talent in 18 year old Ademola Lookman, the word [...]

December 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Homage to Batistuta

A friend of mine in England sent me this link, which I am happy to share with you, on Fiorentina’s greatest player, Gabriel Batistuta – known as Batigiol. See here  for Rob Smyth’s piece on the website of  The Guardian – GABRIEL BATISTUTA To qualify as the greatest you [...]

December 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Players Club Lunch

Our  Players Club of Sussex CCC is most social and yesterday we gathered at English’s, who sponsor the junior Sharks, fora pre-Xmas celebration. It was also attended  by two players, Chris Nash and Jimmy Anyon who did a ‘q and ‘a’. I had a long telephone chat with a [...]

December 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

Stress testing my regulars

Just as this week banks have been stress-tested we restaurant reviewers should visit regularly those establishments we recommend to ensure there is consistency of service and standard. This I did this week. I stayedat my favourite hotel in London, the Marylebone. Once the boxy Clifton Ford, now [...]

December 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Gilbert Scott/ Renaissance Hotel

Having only a narrow window to meet my cousin en route from New York to Paris I chose the Gilbert Scott restaurant in the Renaissance Hotel. It could not be closer to St Pancras station of which Gilbert Scott was the architect. It’s under the aegis of master chef Marcus Wareing whose group [...]

December 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

Hail Jeremy Chapman

We are going to construct a statue to Jeremy Chapman the golf analyst of the Racing and Football Outlook in our garden for services to our household budget at its time of greatest need, Black Friday and Xmas shopping. He successfully tipped Matt Jones to win the Australian Open and Charl Schwartzel [...]

November 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

Pied Piper/ Nevil Shute

Nevil Shute was a writer you regularly saw on bookshelves in the sixties with such popular bestsellers as On the Beach and  A Town called Alice. I had heard of him , for the least two but not the novel recommended by Harriet Gilbert on A Good Read, namely Pied Piper. Nevil Shute – like James [...]

November 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

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