We've had the pleasure of this year's Calcutta Cup, and the squirming commentary of English pundits to grasp the reality that the visitors were actually the poorer of two rather bereft sides.
ONE Monday, in September 1968, a small boy knocked on the door of the Glamorgan cricket club secretary. He wanted to hand in a ball he had found rolling down the street the previous day.
Catapulted over the head of his mount and into a stream 169 years ago in the Grand Liverpool Steeplechase, Captain Martin Becher is reputed to have ventured that until then he hadn't realised how "dreadful water tastes without whisky
in it".
There will be
saturation coverage
this week of a tragic anniversary. It will be 50 years on Wednesday since Flight 609 crashed on take-off from Munich Airport claiming
23 lives, including eight of the
so-called Busby Babes and
seven football writers.
JOE DAVIS was the father of modern snooker, winner of 15 successive world titles, but he is alleged to have controlled the game ruthlessly, blocking the progress of others, included a man reputed to be the game's greatest hustler.
Lillian Board was one of the greatest female athletes of her generation, despite a career significantly curtailed by her death from cancer. She received an MBE in the Honours' List at the start of 1970. By Boxing Day that year she was dead, just 13 days after her 22nd birthday.
The exploits of Portsmouth greengrocer Alec Rose captured the imagination and curiosity of the world when he attempted to circumnavigate the globe single-handed.
EDDIE KIDD, the motorbike rider and film stunt man, flew like Icarus during his career, but high on coke snorted the night before, he finally crashed to earth 11 years ago, and was confined to a wheelchair.
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