Postcard from Bishkek

The sports columns of the popular newspaper Vecherniye Bishkek, (“Evening Bishkek”), once carried the headline “The Incomprehensible Game” –  Rugby Football. It may well be that the game with it’s complex and complicated system of laws, scoring, scrums, lineouts, tries, penalties and the host of technicalities, (such having to pass the ball backwards while trying to run […]

I don’t normally wear bright clothes – but recently I have been seen sporting a bright red Rugby Shirt. The breast displays two small emblems – on the left is the manufacturer’s trade mark: “Kukri”, and on the right is a small embroidered Kyrgyz flag. It’s the Rugby shirt of the Kyrgyz Rugby Federation and […]

I wouldn’t say that I have been particularly sporting, however, I have “had a go” at many different games over the years. Most of it my sporting experience was of the “knock-about” variety rather than organised sport.  The trouble with organised sport was that it required talent, skill, training and commitment.  Now I have a […]