You KNOW what I like.

Anything from the Chas and Dave songbook, but most likely Rabbit.

It’s interesting to read the opinion of someone who’s there, but I’m not sure there is much more to say about it. The IOC aren’t suddenly going wake up tomorrow and call the whole thing off with a week left.

The ’99 version was also held in upstate NY but in the town of Rome , which is around 200 miles from Woodstock.

The Buttoneer, a gadget for fixing loose buttons on clothes with a sort of little plastic stud. Ideal for the inept/lazy/those with a “I’m a bloke so I’m not bloody faffing about with a needle and thread” attitude […]

However, hearty congrats to the Irish duo Fintan McCarthy and Paul O’Donovan on their gold in the men’s lightweight double sculls event. Paul in particular looks and sounds like one of the inhabitants of Craggy […]

Rowing. Another posh sport and one that GB is now evidently crap at, after decades of it being the one thing that always guaranteed us a few Olympic medals. We can’t even steer a bloody boat in a straight line […]

Olympic whippet racing? Olympic arm wrestling? Olympic pub quiz? Olympic laser quest?

Bloody bourgeois cyclists. Up against the wall with the lot of ’em, come the revolution.

He’d very recently damaged his hip, apparently, so the injury excuse was probably genuine.

…and the ECB are under the impression that this is all much, much easier for the novice to grasp than rules that have worked perfectly well for nearly all eternity.

The teams were selected by a US style draft selection process that was held about 18 months ago, hence the strange situation of established county players appearing for teams in areas they have no historical connection to.

Is your main gripe with the existence of a major commercial global sporting event, or with the fact that it’s being held during a pandemic?

I think most Londoners would concur that it has been highly beneficial for the east part of the city, and has improved it no end. The area where the Olympic park was sited had been a nasty, polluted, decaying […]

For those who have never seen it, the official film of the ’64 games is quite superb, and a ground-breaking piece of sports and social documentary filming. Titled “Tokyo Olympiad”, it was the first sports film to […]

The 2012 opening ceremony was fab, and well worth watching again. Upset a few Tory MPs if I recall, so extra bonus points there. It must have confused the hell out of the rest of the world though. Shame about […]

I’ll definitely watch, just because it’s the Olympics, but there’s no question that it will feel peculiarly sterile with no crowds. No Olympics can be a non-event, but this will come closest. Should it have been […]

I am pleased you both had a good time. The Oval is a great place with a sizeable crowd. If it triggers an interest in proper cricket in your grandson, then maybe the ECB are spot on and I don’t know what I’m […]

Yes, I fully accept that the long term financial future for teams like Derbyshire and Leicestershire is grim, and some form of regional merger may well be necessary to keep first class cricket going in those […]

Really, my point is that the ECB has bet its house and the financial future of English cricket on a creation that the fans of the sport do not recognise and feel absolutely no connection with. In that, it is no […]