4 minGET BACK TO SCHOOL!Bitter experience has dissuaded me from ever bringing up two topics of conversation at dinner parties and social occasions – the NHS and...
6 minCORONAVIRUS AND SPORT“Conor Varius? Triffic little player!” Harry Rednapp (allegedly) “It looks like Liverpool will have to add yet another year onto their...
6 min♫ “F*** VAR!” ♬You will forgive the profanity. But last evening, 30,000 Wolves fans were singing it with gusto – including a 12 year-old lad sitting...
6 minTHEN AND NOWPre-season training for the professionals “What’s going on?” I asked the receptionist at the entrance to Malvern College’s splendidly...
4 minSTUART BROADAs a schoolboy, Stuart Broad was more of a batsman than bowler. Gradually, as he grew taller, he concentrated more on his bowling but he...
6 minWHITHER SOUTH AFRICA?If you were lucky enough to stroll through Cape Town’s famous Waterfront on New Year’s Day, you might be forgiven for thinking that much...
4 minBob Willis“Well, in my time of dyin’ don’t want nobody to mourn.” (Bob Dylan) Bob Willis: top, far left Yours truly: bottom row, far right Well, we...
4 minWHITHER THE NHS?One of my favourite miscellaneous facts I like to trot out at social functions is naming the organisations that employ the most number of...
3 minTHE HUNDRED100. Yearned for by batsmen; loathed by bowlers. It’s silly really. Why should a batsman feel disappointed in himself as he unstraps his...