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.
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Brian Viner: Don't you hate it when heroes change sides? But they're only doing their job
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Saturday, 13 August 2011
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Brian Viner: How I miss poolside book snobbery
Thursday, 11 August 2011
We all know that you can't judge a book by its cover, but you can surely judge people by the covers of their books. Or could, until the Kindle and iPad came along to ruin that peculiar paperback snobbery that the British middle classes take on holiday as surely as they take the Factor 30 and the floppy straw hat.
Brian Viner: Cricketing blancmange may be fashionable but it can't match the taste of the Test game
Saturday, 23 July 2011
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