Dear readers, Apologies for personally not having updated this blog for some time. I know you’ve been missing my semi-regular ironic musings on sport, despite the content having become increasingly less about sport and more about whatever topic manages to elicit enough bile from within me to hastily pen an ill-reasoned opinion piece. Peter FitzSimons,…
Read More To The TPA Readership…Al McClintock’s ridiculous re-telling of one rugby league fan’s descent into madness while searching for Braith Anasta’s wedding continues. Read on for Part Eight of this epic series… PART EIGHT: GILI TRAWANGAN/LOMBOK Shame has forced us from the island! Mad Dog only emerged from his slumber this morning and had little to no memory of the events that unfolded yesterday evening. He…
Read More The Bali Journals (Part Eight)Al McClintock’s re-telling of one rugby league fan’s descent into madness while searching for Braith Anasta’s wedding continues. Read on for Part Seven of this epic series… PART SEVEN: GILI TRAWANGAN If you have never woken to a swimsuit wearing, slightly overweight, hairy dude, his budgie snugly smuggled inches from your face, you are luckier than me. Compounding this vision was his…
Read More The Bali Journals (Part Seven)In a month where Kurtley Beale proved again that rugby is no longer a gentlemen’s sport, the Australian Cricket team became a global embarrassment, previous Guildford winner Liam Jurrah beat all charges – then ended up back in jail a week later – and Dennis Rodman planted the seeds for an impending nuclear war, it…
Read More Sebastian Vettel Steals Monthly Guildford AwardPeter FitzSimons will have you believe he is on a moral quest to save us from the relentless stream of betting advertising that is muddying the minds of our children. He will claim that he is risking his livelihood by speaking out against the wealthy, powerful bookie, Tom Waterhouse, who is currently suing FitzSimons for…
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