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A visit to the chess club

Last night I made a rare visit to the local chess club to where I have moved. Almost all chess I play is on the internet for reasons of practicality and anonymity. Sometimes I miss the game played over the board where one sees one’s oppoent so I presented myself at a house in an affluent [...]

October 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Adieu Mike Yardy

Last night I  attended a dinner at Sussex Cricket Museum for Mike Yardy on his retirement after 16 seasons with Sussex, the golden age of Sussex cricket with 3 championships, 2 Pro 40 National League wins, a C & G win, and a T20 too. The one club man is increasingly a rarity in football but in [...]

October 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

Jurgen Klopp

Paul Hayward of the Telegraph is one of our more insightful sports correspondents. I remember hearing him on some football programme discussing the dismissal of Big Phil Scolari from Chelsea. He admitted that journalists had been lazy in their research as Scolari’s record in club football was [...]

October 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

2005 Ashes revisited

Sussex CCC is a social place so the dinners continue to flow even though the season is finished. Last night Tony Cottey, one of the few to have won championships for 2 counties, Glamorgan and  Sussex,presented one of his “When cricket meets…” as he invites sportsmen to a dinner [...]

October 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

The golfing weekend

It proved an enthralling weekend with a new young British champion at a British event and a palpitating contest in the Presidents Cup,  Matthew Fitzpatrick aged 21. Sheffield born, but educated in a North West US university he kept his cool in a final round to fight off the challenge of Shane [...]

October 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Brighton sport update

Last week we received a memory stick from the Albion with the information on renewal of the 1901 Club. My granddaughter Chloe had to explain to me how to use it. I had spent much of last season trying to convince my neighbour that we would better off in more standard seats. The Seagulls were having [...]

October 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

A bigger problem

I do not have the knowledge of Derek and Sandra on rugby. I’m looking at our demise in the Rugby World Cup from the point of view of continued failure in other World Cup in football and cricket as well as rugby. I am avoiding  a common adjective of “under-achieving” as I no [...]

October 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/The Garrick Club

Gentleman’s clubs by their very name do not exist for the likes of me. Daddy and his generation all belonged to one. It defined your politics and status in life but was not the preserve of ladies let alone those of the Daffers stiletto heel brigade!!! This might be a reason why in some cases [...]

October 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sometimes violence is the only way

The comedian Jackie Mason has many observations about his Jewish race and one is its lack of violence. As he puts it, if you were walking down the street and saw 4 Jewish accountants approaching  you you would not cross over to the other side. However it was not always thus as in the late 1940s [...]

October 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

Up Against the Night/ Justin Cartwright

I begin this review with an admission: I know Justin Cartwright and like him immensely. Thus the reader might charge me with being unobjective and also I can see biographical elements to his novel that the more detached reader does not. It’s the story written in the “I” form of [...]

October 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

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