Brian Viner
Brian Viner swapped London for the Herefordshire countryside, and his column ‘Country Life’ documents his attempts to chase the rural idyll. Chiefly a sports writer, he pens a weekly sports column and interview for the paper. He is the author of Ali, Pele, Lillee and Me: A Personal Odyssey Through the Sporting Seventies.
Brian Viner: Don't wake me up, I'm a teenager
Was there a doubt that the teenage body clock is not like other people’s?
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Brian Viner: Fat is no bar to sporting greatness
Friday, 6 March 2009
Sacking an England cricketer because he is overweight is just plain wrong
Brian Viner: 'The play will tour village halls – and perhaps even be staged on Broadway '
Thursday, 5 March 2009
Home And Away
Brian Viner: Clarke's refusal to resign insults English cricket lovers
Saturday, 28 February 2009
The Last Word
Brian Viner: 'A Bathological tendency to tweeness afflicts bits of England's loveliest city'
Thursday, 26 February 2009
Much as we love our darling offspring, Jane and I value the occasional weekend away without them, a treat we manage to organise once or twice a year. Our most recent escape, if that's not too dramatic a word, was to Bath, which took us only an hour and 40 minutes or so in the getaway car, if that's not pitching it too strong.
Brian Viner: No cheers for hypocrisy or red-rose-tinted spectacles
Saturday, 21 February 2009
The Last Word
Brian Viner: ‘I don’t know why reading on the loo is a solely male practice, but it is’
Thursday, 19 February 2009
Home And Away
Brian Viner: We are all copycat comedians
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
As soon as a joke is uttered on stage, it becomes public property
Brian Viner: 'Bolero' still leads the way to a sporting nation's heart
Saturday, 14 February 2009
The Last Word
Brian Viner: Sparing the haka does us all a favour
Friday, 13 February 2009
The trademarking of the Maori ritual sets me thinking about other dances
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