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Tag Archives: sport
Adapting to different forms of cricket
The modern complaints about the difficulty of adapting to different forms of cricket does not stand up. Cricketers have had to adjust far more dramatically in the past, for example, in 1973 county cricketers had to play 20 Championship matches … Continue reading
The 2016 County Championship goes down to the last day.
Robert Henderson To Lords for the fourth day of the Middlesex vs Yorkshire match to decide where the County Championship went with both these counties and Somerset all starting day as possible winners., The crowd grew throughout the day. The … Continue reading
The British success at the Rio Olympics should be no surprise
Robert Henderson UK’s success in the Rio Olympics where they came second in the medal table (and second in the Paralympics medal count) has resulted in a monumental gnashing of teeth by the politically correct ranging from squealing expressions of … Continue reading
What is wrong with English cricket?
I have been watching English first class cricket since the 1950s. During the 2014 season I watched eight days of county cricket. The matches involved ten of the eighteen counties . These counties were evenly drawn from the first and … Continue reading
The BBC and “coloured players“
Robert Henderson Twice in the past few days two interviewees from the football world on Radio 5 have used the word coloured in connection with black players when discussing the possible introduction of the Rooney Rule into English football. The … Continue reading
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The Commonwealth Games: England should have many more medals against their name
Robert Henderson Gratifying as the official success of the England team at the Commonwealth games –173 medals made up of 58 gold, 59 silver and 57 bronze medals – this underplays the scale of England’s dominance. Of the 19 gold … Continue reading
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English sport and the alien invasion
Robert Henderson In the past few weeks England have lost three times to the All Blacks at rugby and crashed out of the World Cup with only one point from their three pool games . This week they lost for … Continue reading
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Mending English cricket
Robert Henderson The dire performance of the England team in Australia this winter is arguably the worst ever Ashes performance by England, both because of the lack of spirit and the mediocre quality of the Australian side. When England lost … Continue reading
Jack Wilshere and the English
Robert Henderson The young England and Arsenal footballer Jack Wilshere put the cat emphatically amongst the politically correct pigeons when he came up with the novel idea (in these pc times) that only Englishmen should be picked to play for … Continue reading
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The trouble with England
I wrote The trouble with England in 1993. It provided the basis for Is it in the blood? which was published by Wisden Cricket Monthly in 1995. The article is towards the bottom of this blog post – https://englandcalling.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/is-it-in-the-blood-peter-oborne-and-the-question-of-englishness/ The … Continue reading
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