Columnist About
- Member Since:
- April 2007
- Based In:
- Bedford, UK
- Favourite Sporting Team:
- The Queensland Reds and the Mighty Med XV
- Favourite Sports:
- Rugby,
Latest Articles
Deans will leave a legacy of unprofessionalism at the Wallabies
14 Jun 2012It is easy to deride a sportsman’s post match interview for the cliché and aphorism laden spiel that is so often spurted forth like some flailing hosepipe of rote-learned monkey gibberish. It is very difficult, however, to write a sports article that does not utilise or rely upon the assumed wisdom of the same. Clichés [...]
On expressing a love of sport
30 Mar 2012Those last two words in the title are important on a website like this; an Australian website, where men are men and women are something similar. At the collision of blokey-ness and the desire for hearty exploration of our feelings and their most careful articulation. This piece is about love – imperishable and relentless – [...]
Dan Parks and the unsolved questions of expat rugby
9 Feb 2012The contradictions of modern rugby stand evident in the career of Dan Parks, the duality never better expressed than in the jealous mixture of pride and persecution with which Scottish crowds enveloped him. In the age of the professional rugby player, his Australian upbringing gave him the mark of the mercenary in the Scottish team. [...]
The sporting fallacy of the Olympic 'Games'
2 Feb 2012With the word ‘Olympic’ again prominent on the back pages of London’s newspapers beneath the names and faces of athletes so ‘elite’ that they are only ever seen by we mere mortals every four years, I am struck with the inadequacy of the word ‘games’ which follows it. What part of the Olympics is a [...]
Sport with no strings attached: I need a fling
30 Jan 2012My sporting goal for 2012 is to learn to love a new sport. I’m not looking for the seedy, fumbling-excitement of an Olympic one night stand with some exotic yet closeted sports like Greco-roman wrestling or archery. I’m looking for love: Madame Bovary style. You see any new sport would have to accept that I [...]
24 more years, boys! 24 more years!
25 Oct 2011Yeah, take that All Blacks. You might have won your second World Cup, but it took you 24 years to do it. That’s right, I said it. You and your fourth string flyhalf. I know what’s going on. You think you can just snaffle this World Cup and we’ll all forget the fun we’ve had [...]
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