Updated Sept 2025 – Well that was unexpected. Having gone to the final day singles with no realistic hope of winning, the US team almost delivered a comeback that would have been greater than any before. A triumphant relaxing coast to the finish line was transformed into a roiling nail-biting scramble. Fantastic drama from start […]
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The worst of the British Lions
The history of the British (and for the past few decades the British and Irish) Lions is, to say the least, a little patchy. Whilst tours to Australia and Argentina have generally been successful, those to New Zealand and South Africa have been anything but. In 14 tours to South Africa there have been only […]
The best of the British Lions
The greatest sporting events are those that come around sparingly. The football World Cup, the Olympic Games, the rugby World Cup, an away Ashes series. With these, the stakes are so much higher for fans and players alike when the next chance to win may be four years away. The tours of the British and […]
The best of the Masters
I wrote this blog before the 2025 Masters in which the best European golfer of this generation, Rory McIlroy, finally shook from his back the biggest monkey of them all, his seeming inability to win the Masters. To his fans across the world, his excruciating and exhilarating route to victory seemed to encapsulate everything about […]
The worst of England in the Five/Six Nations
For those of us whose formative rugby years were the 1970s, there was very little to cheer about when it came to England. We were routinely battered by Wales and France, and the only ‘trophy’ we received on a regular basis was the wooden spoon. Things have perked up since but the banana skin never […]