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14th January, 2016 in Military, Sport
‘War by other means’: Rugby and warfare
Henry Allingham, one of the last two veterans to pass away in 2009, said of the Great War: ‘Of course I remember. I was there. I have no choice but to remember’. We, who were not there, do have a choice. We must choose to remember. In October 2009, I set out not to write a book,…
17th December, 2015 in Military, Sport
Compelling and contradictive: The real Western Front
Today, many biographers, historians and film-makers have a chilling certainty in the correctness of their judgments on the First World War. It wasn’t only an appalling tragicomedy in its making, they agree, but for the poor front-line soldier life in the trenches was one of unrel…
17th December, 2015 in Biography & Memoir, Sport
George Raynor: The greatest football coach England never had
Despite being the most successful national coach in the history of football – an accolade bestowed by the Guinness Book of Records – Raynor is one of the least well known within Great Britain. Rising from humble beginnings as a miner’s son, he became a competent but unexceptional…