DIARY UPDATE: Week 32, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 32 2017 MONDAY, AUGUST 7 Take our grandson, Ethan to Ithaca Pool Park. So much rubbish at the skate-park. The skateboarders probably […]
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GETTING IT HOME
There’s a saying in journalism, that you can have the best story in the world, but if you don’t get it out there in time for your readership, it doesn’t […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 23, 2016
MONDAY, JUNE 6 Get my haircut at Stafford today, and an almost bald guy storms off, swearing as he goes, when the barber tells him there is a half hour wait. […]
FLASHBACK: October 1991
Wigan defeated Penrith 21-4 in a brutal World Club Challenge encounter at Liverpool’s Anfield Stadium, with former All Black, Frano ‘The Boot’ Botica kicking six goals from seven shots to win […]
FLASHBACK: July 1986
Alex Murphy, one of the greats of British rugby league, took a pot shot at the egos of Australian players during a talent scouting trip ‘down under’ for the St […]
