How much have you enjoyed your Covid sport viewing? I can’t do rugby or football, killed stone dead by the empty stands. Test match cricketers scrambling into the stands to retrieve the ball felt wrong; I preferred the radio. This week’s ATP tennis finals has been my best TV sport [ … click here to read more … ]

TURNING THE KEY 38)Ian Cole reports from Perth in Western Australia on Aussie rules season. I see no mention of Reading’s cheerful start in the championship. Has he gone over to the convicts’ side? Amid some World crisis going on, a place called “Straya” and a game called Aussie Rules [ … click here to read more … ]

Attached a quiz update on three further predictions, from our correspondents in West Australia and Texaswho have obviously gone native.The three answers have produced a new leaderbut thirty plus quizzers are still in the hunt for gigantic prizes. For those with less lofty ambitions, the website is up to date [ … click here to read more … ]

The last weekend of Six Nations games saw England, Ireland and France all with a chance of being crowned champions. No fans and wild weather increased the ‘soulessness’ of the weekend. Certainly if one watched Wales v Scotland with the first ten lineouts ‘not straight’ and twenty knock ons inside [ … click here to read more … ]

patel ketal 41 18 davis steve 39 filby rob 39 noble steven 39 8 bayliss scott 38 dearmer jeremy 36 moss simon 36 southgate phil 36 guest henry 35 jones richard 35 nichols daniel 35 russell jonny 35 gilder edward 34 lucas paul 34 9 mulhern wendy 34 9 brewer [ … click here to read more … ]

davis steve 33 ellis chris 30 filby rob 30 noble steven 30 8 patel ketal 30 18 bayliss scott 27 dearmer jeremy 27 moss simon 27 russell jonny 27 southgate phil 27 jones richard 26 nichols daniel 26 short ian 26 brewer hannah 25 32 davies ifan 25 ellis emma/steve [ … click here to read more … ]

CARRY ON REGARDLESS 9)Kenyan runner Brigid Kosgei won the London marathon by more than three minutes from her closest pursuer but Brigid finished MORE than 100 seconds outside the time limit set in the quiz question. How come the world’s finest woman marathon runner could crush the opposition but leave [ … click here to read more … ]

On October 5th,you quizzers should receive an update on 5 predictions.1)Two predictions on the delayed Tour de France(None/Slovenia)2)The US Open tennis men’s final with a prediction transferred from Wimbledon(Five)3)The winner of the delayed T20 cricket(It might yet be Gloucestershire-be still, my beating heart)4)The time of the winner of the London [ … click here to read more … ]

The irony was that PSG, the team who have spent over £700 million to assemble a team of superstars in order to win the Champions League, were beaten by a goal scored by one of their ex academy players, Kingsley Coman. Bayern Munich won the trophyfor a sixth time while [ … click here to read more … ]

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