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Driving Home for Christmas.                                                        After six months living from Monday to Friday in a hotel in far away Essex the business I had been nursing back to health, after it had received investment from my client, seemed...

Friends.                                                                                                           The thing about...

Tryfest                                                                                               Tigers 41-32 Montpellier            ...

Light Fantastic                                                                                                              ...

Unluck of the Irish                                                                                                              ...

So Anyway...                                                                                                                ...

Cut to the Chase. Canals always held a fascination for me.  My maternal grandfather, forced from his job as a teacher by bad health, found himself and his family evicted from their school board house and finding himself not only jobless but homeless .....

It Seemed A Good Idea...at the time to the marketing boys at LV= to sponsor the Anglo-Welsh Cup!  As it’s turned out this latest incarnation of a rugby knock out cup hasn’t, in England anyway, been a beloved competition in the way the much lamented knock out cup was and which ended with the then Leeds Tykes carrying off the trophy during on 16th April 2005 as they prevailed over Bath...

So what changes in 6 months?  On the occasion of our last meeting with Harlequins – recall last May gentle reader – they left Welford Road broken hearted having been played off the park in a second half that saw Tigers too powerful, too quick, too incisive and too clever for them....

Homeward Bound                                                                                  I’d decided to impress my new girlfriend by taking her out for a day in the country and treating...

Unintended Consequences                                                                                                            ...

Count Your Blessings                                                                 Whenever I moaned to my mother about something or another she would wag her finger at me and say “count your blessings my boy, there’s always someone...

Suits of Armagh                                                                           It’s a long time since I’ve been to Northern Ireland, the last being a sphincter contracting occasion. As local companies...

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, we present a heavyweight bout for the title of Kings of the East Midlands. In the Pooh Corner, wearing green, the Leicester Tigers.  General cheering....

Something in the Air                                                                                                             Thirty...

Summertime Blues                     Up here in the Peaks we’ve had a welcome last flush of summer weather.  The warmth is especially welcome since we missed pretty much all of the true summer months as once we had safely seen the Knock Out Cup safely into Tigers’ hands we set of for Spain to support our ailing friend.   ...

Some snaps of the 2013 Tigers v Newcastle Premiership game....

The Boys Are Back In Town                                                                                “Guess who got back today?        Those wild eyed boys that had been away...

It was always going to be about George Ford. Would the pressure of leading Bath against his old club so soon raise or reduce his game? It raised it. Not error free but he looked confident, kicked beautifully out of hand, a decent percentage off the tee (67%), ran and distributed well and topped it with a brilliant try saving tackle to keep the ball from being grounded. Man of the match for me....