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England v Pakistan ODI

Yesterday I went to Lords for the second match in the ODI series. The ECB have missed a trick by scheduling only four tests which ended in parity and ODIs instead of a deciding test. The tourists have shown little enthusiasm and even less application in the first match at the Ageas Bowl. Yesterday [...]

August 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Flying down to Rio

As I type this I am listening to the Opening Ceremony of the Rio Olympics as broadcast on Radio Five Live in the wee hours of a UK morning. I have certain events that I wish to watch but currently have no intention whatsoever to immerse myself in wall-to-wall Olympic-viewing. You can call me a [...]

August 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Once more unto the beach …

Having never attended in the flesh either a major athletics championship or an Olympics – but always having instead relied upon either radio commentaries and/or television coverage of such things – I am not looking forward to Rio, whose Opening Ceremony occurs today, with any particular sense [...]

August 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Gender issues in sport

With Rio 2016 fast approaching, here’s a link to a thought-provoking and well-balanced article by Donald McRae on Caster Semenya, the South African athlete who is expected to do great things on the Olympics athletics track, that appears today on the website of – THE GUARDIAN It covers [...]

July 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Drugs – it’s one way or the other

No apologies here for posting another round in the Rust‘s reporting of sports cheating via the use of performance-enhancing drugs and yes, it concerns Russia and the 2016 Rio Olympics which begin about a week from now. My subject today is not the fact that my old pal Vladimir Putin who [...]

July 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

What goes around comes around

Although one can perhaps empathise with the sentiment, the famous “History is bunk” saying of legendary car manufacturer (the original) Henry Ford does not actually provide a complete answer. He was making the point that the greatest (most important) impetus in making progress is the [...]

July 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Roger, over … and out

The Rust has never apologised for taking a hard-line approach to the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport, but last weekend’s decision by the International Olympic Committee not to kick Russia out of the 2016 Rio Games – instead leaving it to the controlling federations of individual [...]

July 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

This ‘stuck record’ is finally coming to a halt, I promise …

What continues to surprise me is the degree to which, in this post-EU Referendum world, the outcome – together with its implications and the uncertainties as to what it might mean for the UK and its people – has been dominating the media. I’m referring to the Leavers’ ongoing remorse, [...]

July 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

All in a single day

Come on guys, I mean I know it’s the ‘summer season’ when there’s not much going on in the world and the media (what used to be known in the UK back in the day as ‘Fleet Street’), bored with nothing worthy to report, traditionally resorted to ridiculous tales of Miami Beach-style [...]

July 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s time to get serious

One of the benefits of getting old is that life becomes ever more simple and straightforward – that’s what I like to maintain, anyway. The thing is that – as modern life hurtles on past your train window – we all tend to get fed up trying to stay ‘connected’ and gradually regroup (or [...]

July 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

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