“What is the England……”
“Actually Alexa, don’t bother….”
After a tumultuous end-to-end game, England won. At Twickenham yesterday. Beating Argentina. Just. A fabulous Autumn for England’s rugby players and a mouth watering 6 Nations in prospect in the New Year. France and Ireland both looking very good. England snapping at their heels…
Elsewhere, England came second in a cricket match…
Dust to dust, ashes to ashes…
A happy afternoon with great mates at Twickenham. The Cardinal Vaughan car park. A very fine picnic and we did not go thirsty. Obviously…
I have said this before, and I don’t make any apologies for occasionally venting my frustration at the vested fractions and their petty politicking in our sport, but we don’t stand in the CV car park discussing the financial woes of the Rugby Football Union. And the vast majority of people who click through racecourse turnstiles have next to nil interest in the flawed governance and funding of our sport…
Which is entirely understandable. People attend sports for the sheer joy of being there. The bigger picture exercises only the minority, and primarily those of us on the shop floor…
Happy Budget week….?!
What will Rachel from Accounts come up with ?? In our racing bubble, we await with trepidation her moves on betting taxes and the potentially devastating impact of “harmonisation”. And the knock on effect to racing’s levy and the already fragile funding model…
High Noon on Wednesday…
We all love a galloping grey. And Grey Dawning looked very good at Haydock on Saturday. 16/1 for the Cheltenham Gold Cup is not exactly manna from heaven from those kind bookmakers, but I might just be tempted to go early on that Festival ante post portfolio…
