I thought it was really interesting to see that the typical ubiquity of St George’s Cross and Union Jack flags, which tends to coincide with major sporting events, has not been a significant part of the last few weeks. It got me thinking about both the nature of national pride – a tricky subject under […]
Category Archives: Rugby
A Cloud Descends Over Welford Road
posted by petegoold
I went to the rugby last night – and it was the most dire game I’ve ever seen. There was no atmosphere, the teams lacked any intensity and, all in all, it was a shocker. Ironically, we left with 7 minutes to go and the scores shot up from about 11-3 to 27-11 in the […]
A Double Week
posted by petegoold
An evident theme of this blog is the recurring fact that I’m continually shattered. Over the last week, my wife has graduated, my youngest has been christened, one daughter has been in hospital and the other has had a four day fever. Coupled with which, Emma’s parents are with us for the week, so whilst […]
The Verdict
posted by petegoold
We headed to Welford Road for the first Tigers home match of the season yesterday – and the first with the new stand. Although the designers have gone for an unashamed grey breeze block motif throughout – which seems unavoidable with modern stadia, presumably for financial reasons – the set up and facilities are undeniably […]
Switching Off
posted by petegoold
Despite being on the losing side – and not thinking terribly positive thoughts about our opponents given some of what went on – yesterday’s match against South Africa was, I think, the best game of rugby I’ve ever seen. Stephen Jones described it, perfectly, in The Sunday Times as ‘epic’. Indeed. Not sure whether I […]
The Last Stand
posted by petegoold
Earlier this week I spoke at a regional branch of the Institute of Directors, over breakfast, in front of a small audience of 40 or so, about the power of ‘PR 2.0’ and how it can make a potentially significant impact on the bottom line. Whilst it’s a subject I’m hugely passionate about, this doesn’t […]
New Look, New Home
posted by petegoold
So, a few weeks ago I moved this blog from it’s former home to this new location, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the software I was using, from a site called ‘edublogs’ was proving extremely painful to use despite being based on WordPress, resisting updates on a seemingly arbitrary basis. Secondly I also wanted […]
Partisan Welshmen
posted by petegoold
It was my Granddad’s 90th birthday at the weekend and my family, my brother’s family and my parents all went back to Swansea, our collective birthplace to see the old boy, who’s a Dunkirk vet. Happily, Leicester Tigers were playing the Ospreys in the Heineken Cup and my Dad had the foresight to book a […]
Fortuitous Timing
posted by petegoold
It’s my Grandad’s 90th birthday in a few weeks time and we’re all schlepping down to Swansea (including both his 3 year old and 6 week old great granddaughters), which is going to be a fun trip. However, as luck would have it Leicester Tigers are playing Ospreys in the Heineken Cup that very weekend. […]
Feeling Settled…
posted by petegoold
So, it’s been a long week. With three (now two) weeks to go before baby due-date, I’ve had a pretty lousy chest infection this week, which flattened me from Wednesday onwards. Two trips to the doctors in four days, a course of antibiotics and another of steroids later, I’m now feeling a bit better, which […]
Big Week, Big Weekend
posted by petegoold
We’ve had a huge week at work this week – back to back meeting throughout, or at least, so it has seemed at time. We’ve won two new clients (more to follow on this), one of which is relatively local (Birmingham), which is terrific and as a Midlands PR Agency, is something I’m keen to […]
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