Grecian Earn Update
Regular readers will, I know, have been chewing away at their fingernails and wondering feverishly: “how are the Freaky Triglets getting on with their Grecian Earn?”
As you’ll see by our totaliser here, we’[…]

BLUDY Observer Sports Monthly!!! I’ve been talking about doing this (or similar) for weeks and they beat me to it. They have missed out a couple of classics though, which i shall tell the tales of here, once i’ve worked out which of the […]

Ping Pong (the Japanese film based on the manga) did not seem that unusual a premise for a Japanese film at first. Of course the Japanese are obsessed with table tennis, the inattentive racist in my bonce said. The film picked me up – the scary[…]

D&D, Role playing, none of it interested me. There were about half a dozen kids at my school who lived this life. These were the kids you never saw at lunch hour. As soon as the bell went, they scurried away. It was a great ploy, the thugs would[…]

Flicking The V’s. So Harvey Smith then, showjumping legend became all the more legendary in 1971 when in the British Showjumping Derby, he completed the course, won and did a reverse V for Victory sign at a part of the crowd. Many say it was at[…]

Extended online letters pages rool OK
The Observer featured my letter on penalties in their sports letters pages this weekend. Not in the print version, but it’s a start.[…]

Role-playing is a resource-intensive hobby. Aside from the ridiculous number of available rulebooks, supplements, pre-written adventures and so on, you need two things: time and people. I had plenty of time – people were more of a problem. It w[…]

See look how popular showjumping was in the 1980’s. There was even a Commodore 64 game – “Harvey Smith Showjumper“. And the copyright issues – possibly the BBC wanting to do their own Showjumping game for the BBC Model B[…]

What’s so sporty about Chocolate?[…]

Whatever happened to show jumping? These days it is barely seen on television, probably just as part of three day eventing in the Olympics (and trust me, there is plenty of time over the next few weeks to talk about horse walking sideways). When I wa[…]