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Sledging: cricket v football

Watching the excellent game between Fulham and Manchester City, I was struck by one incident. The Fulham equaliser was bizarre, when Vincent Kompany somehow deflected his clearance backwards over Joe Hart.  If the object of sledging is to remove your opponent out of his zone of concentration then [...]

December 23, 2013 // 0 Comments

Neil Rosen’s Film List – Rome

To maintain my capital theme here is my Rome list. Rome is an important and creative force in the cinema with location, some great Italian directors and actors, though probably less so at the moment. Bicycle Thieves 1948 De Sica’s first film set in the poverty of post war Rome, with a [...]

December 22, 2013 // 2 Comments

Planes Trains and Automobiles

My readers will know of my almost visceral dislike of American cinema post Star Wars so I am delighted to  say how much I enjoyed Planes Trains and Automobiles, a film that was recommended to me as it crossed the categories of car, train and plane movies. It’s a comedy but more than that. If [...]

December 22, 2013 // 0 Comments

Farewell but not goodbye

Since yesterday the media has be awash with tributes to David Coleman, one of the all-time great sporting commentators, who has died at the age of 87. Greater authorities than your author today have produced acres of newsprint and many memorable personal reflections upon Coleman’s outstanding [...]

December 22, 2013 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report

Fulham’s performance v Manchester City was not all that different to that against Everton the previous week. We were the weaker side in the first half, we clambered back into the game, which was no mean achievement as we were 2 goals down, only for City like Everton to go into over-drive and [...]

December 22, 2013 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/the Guinea Grill

For many years we have been having the Danida lunch – Davina, Nicola and Daffers at the Guinea Grill . Nic, an interior designer who has gone into  refurbishing houses in the Fulham area, is maddeningly well preserved. Years running her own ad agency and the consequent liquid lunching that [...]

December 21, 2013 // 0 Comments

The Great Train Robbery- the Coppers Tale

The second part was only marginally better than the first, largely because of the fine acting of Jim Broadbent. This episode took the drama over to the police investigation, headed up DST Tommy Butler of the Flying Squad. It adopted the irritating, narrational style of the first episode, which [...]

December 20, 2013 // 0 Comments

The Great Train Robbery – A Robber’s Tale

The Great Train Robbery which has passed into lore was flawed and botched. Billy Hill, the leading figure in the post war underworld associated with the more successful Eastcastle St post office raid in which  no one was ever charged, would not touch it. He considered there were too many on the [...]

December 19, 2013 // 0 Comments

Festive lunch

Yesterday I had a lunch with two brothers, both esteemed lawyers, who have kept me out of mischief over the years. We first began the tradition as an annual pre Xmas beano in the late 1970s. The lunch venue started at the Wig and Pen, then moved to the Arts Club and now the Athenaeum. Imagine my [...]

December 18, 2013 // 0 Comments

Sobering Up

Chris Middleton was one of the talents at my school. Although we have not stayed in touch I always enjoy reading his feature articles. Yesterday one appeared in the Telegraph. He described a service called Sober Services for those of an addictive bent. A sober companion accompanies you to social [...]

December 17, 2013 // 0 Comments

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