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Showing posts with label Rugby. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Rugby. Show all posts

Monday, June 29, 2026

Reg Calvert and his boarding school of rock

In the Sixties there was more than one way of getting it together in the country. You could, like Traffic, have your own cottage out in the ...

Wednesday, January 07, 2026

Julie Covington: Only Women Bleed

Julie Covington's version of this Alice Cooper song reminds me of a foggy day at Rugby station just before Christmas 1977, but I realise...

Saturday, February 24, 2024

Christopher Brasher goes to the Hallaton bottle kicking

Click on the image above to go to the BBC Rewind website and see a 1964 report by a bemused Christopher Brasher on the Hallaton bottle kicki...

Friday, February 03, 2023

England beat the All Blacks away from home in 1973

I'm fond of quoting the Irish hooker Ken Kennedy on English rugby in the amateur era: "England have the players. What they've ...

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Call for reopening to provide direct rail service between Leicester and Northampton

Another day, another call for the reopening of a stretch of East Midland railway. This time the line in question is the old Great Central be...

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