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Cricketing lunch

Yesterday I attended with friends the closing lunch of the Luke Wright benefit year. Luke is captain now of Sussex but it’s not been the greatest year for his team with relegation, finishing bottom of the Royal London southern section and falling at the quarter finals of the T20. However, [...]

November 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

Fiorentina file

Tonight Fiorentina play Basel in the Europa League in a key match. We lost our first home games to Basel and to Lech Posnan but between these won away at Belenenses. Another away win at Posnan gave us 6 points and every chance of 9 as our final game is home to Belenenses, the weakest team in the [...]

November 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

The golfing weekend

Rory Mcilroy won both the DP world Championship and Race to Dubai after an exciting back nine tussle with Andy Sullivan. Rory hit the water on the 17th, sunk a 30 foot putt to make a bogey and recovered on the 18th to win by two shots. This is his third Race to Dubai victory in four seasons. Andy [...]

November 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Bridge

Its good to see the Danish/Swedish co production of The Bridge back on our screens. A successful enduring series needs a memorable detective be him a scruffy sleuth like Colombo or a social inadequate like Saga Loren played by Sofia Helin. The Killing set the tone with Sarah Lund (Sofie Grabol) [...]

November 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

El Clasico

Yesterday I watched Barcelona thrash Real Madrid 4-0 in El Clasico. It’s interesting how these big club matches are hyped up. There is genuine dislike between the two cities going back to the Spanish Civil War and the oppression of General Franco who stifled Catalan culture, education and [...]

November 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

Nuremberg 70 years on

70 years ago the Nuremberg trial took place. To constitue a tribunal from the diverse legal systems of the 4 Allies – France, Russia, UK and USA – so quickly was a considerable achievement and it was sad it did not endure as an international court of justice . Winston Churchill in [...]

November 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report

I was called yesterday in the late morning by a Fulham friend and supporter. He said he was “underwhelmed” by the imminent appointment of Steve Clarke. Clarke’s tenure at Reading is/was impressive. They reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup last season and this one are challenging [...]

November 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Lady In The Van

A film about a writer Alan Bennett caring for his demented mother and a homeless woman in a van who resides in his driveway for 15 years is hardly the stuff of box office success but nonetheless a refreshing and welcome break from the Hollywood blockbusters and the violence of Respect or of Mexican [...]

November 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

A Suitable Case for Corruption

The author Norman Lewis may not mean much to the contemporary reader but as a notoriously shy man the travel writer would have preferred this. He once described himself as the only man to come to and leave a party without anyone noticing. Like many private people,there was much to him. A gifted [...]

November 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Montpelliano

What is that mysterious alchemy whereby a restaurant survives for over 40 years? In Knightsbridge there are several Italian restaurants still flourishing that I visited for many years – San Lorenzo, Signer Sassi and not so far away La Famiglia – and yesterday I went back to another, [...]

November 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

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