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Ward v Gatti

Ward v Gatti 18 May 2002 Mohegan Sun Casino, Uncasville, Connecticut In all the years I have been a follower of the sport of boxing (over a quarter of a century and counting) there has ne...

Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali ‘I am the Greatest!’ Muhammad Ali transcended sport, when he literally became the most famous man on the planet. The road to that remarkable achievement was a long and winding o...

Rocky Marciano

Rocky Marciano The Brockton Blockbuster Rocco Francis Marchegiano better known to the world as Rocky Marciano was the least technical world champion of modern times. He had one method of fight...

Sandy Saddler

Sandy Saddler Featherweight Giant In boxing beating a legend or following a legend is a tough thing to do. Sandy Saddler knew all about that. As a result he has perhaps never quite received t...

Willie Pep

Willie Pep ‘Will-O’-The-Wisp’ Featherweight great Willie Pep once said ‘They call Ray Robinson the best fighter, pound for pound. I’m the best fighter, ounce for ounce.’ Not exactly the sh...

Wild Target (2010)

Wild Target (2010) This is a quintessentially British comedy remake of original French film (‘Cible Emouvante’). Bill Nighy plays 54 year old hitman Victor Maynard who is told by his infirm but still...

Four Lions (2010)

Four Lions (2010) A film about four inept Jihadist terrorists in Britain is not your typical subject matter for a comedy. Unsurprisingly ‘Brass Eye’s’ King of controversy Chris Morris is involved on...

Killers (2010)

Killers (2010) From writers Bob DeRosa and Ted Griffin this comedy is a mixture of two genres: the spy movie and the rom-com. Ashton Kutcher is Spencer Aimes, a spy on a last job in Nice, France....

Robin Hood (2010)

Robin Hood (2010) Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe team up for another collaboration, this time to tell the old English tale of the mythical and legendary Robin Hood. Crowe plays the hooded one, this ...

Iron Man 2 (2010)

Iron Man 2 (2010) Two years ago ‘Iron Man’ was the surprise hit that launched (literally) a new superhero onto our screens, well now Iron Man is back and bigger than ever. The first entry in the f...

No Place To Hide

No Place To Hide How I Put The Black In The Union Jack Errol Christie with Tony McMahon Published 2010 by Aurum Press Ltd One of my earliest recollections of being a boxing fan was the bui...

Hit Man: The Thomas Hearns Story

Hit Man: The Thomas Hearns Story By Brian and Damian Hughes Published 2009 by Milo Books I can remember watching one boxer in particular growing up in the 1980s who always guaranteed drama and excitement eve...

Young Stalin

Young Stalin Simon Sebag Montefiore Published 2008 by Phoenix Joseph Stalin the man responsible for the deaths of over 20 million of his own people kept his past well hidden. A charismati...

Sphinx

Sphinx By T.S. Learner Published 2010 by Sphere Alexandria, Egypt in 1977, on a dive to an old shipwreck archaeologist Isabella Warnock discovers an ancient artifact: an astrarium...

Unseen Academicals

Unseen Academicals Unseen Academicals By Terry Pratchett Published 2009 by Doubleday This is the latest entry in the Discworld novels by acclaimed author Terry Pratchett. Here he turns hi...

Land of Copper

Land of Copper Cyprus I will always have a strong affection for the Mediterranean, with its clear blue sea, its craggy islands and warm climate it is the perfect place to unwind and get away f...

Puck Fair

Puck Fair ‘Apparently there’s this place in Ireland where every year they crown a goat king and party for three days solid.’ So my friend Rob informed that early summer afternoon. We were sa...

!Viva Mexico!

!Viva Mexico! I had been to Mexico a few years earlier as part of a World trip. I now found myself bound for that colourful and vibrant country again. The last time was spent in the Northern and...

How the Stag in Prague became The Night on Brighton

How the Stag in Prague became The Night on Brighton (Or ‘Here’s to Al Pacino!’) Getting married is a ‘big’ step to take and when my friend Andy R invited me and a crowd of others to celebrate his upcoming Stag in Prague I jumpe...

Invasion of the Morrismen!

Invasion of the Morrismen! I can remember it clearly now when my friend Andrew ‘Dave’ G invited me to join him and his mates from Winkleigh A.F.C. on a trip down to Newquay in Cornwall one summer. ‘Fine,’ ...
 

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Sherlock Holmes, still relevant...
When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote ‘A Study in Scarlet’ in 1887 for Colliers magazine I doubt very much that he could foresee that his creation detective Sherlock Holmes would in fact spawn four novels and fifty six short stories. Doyle’s last published work involving the famous sleuth was in 1927 (‘The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes.’) During Doyle’s lifetime he saw his creation become the subject of plays, radio shows and films. Perhaps more incredibly the resident of 221B Baker Street still endures as a popular and instantly recognizable character today nearly eighty years after Doyle’s passing.

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One to Watch

Sherlock
A new version of Sherlock Holmes starts on Sunday starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes and Martin Freeman as Watson. Holmes is the most portrayed fictional character ever with over 70 actors playing him and over 200 films made about him. So why bother watching this?

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