College Sports

I read with interest Daniel Wellbelove’s comments on the persistent ascendancy of certain colleges in sport over the last decade. If he had looked back further a very different pattern would have emerged. In the 1960s, before the menace of the Tompkins table, the principal qualification for admission to Christ’s was a talent for football or rugby, as a result of which both the Blues teams and the college competitions were dominated by that college. Before that Catz were dominant and in the inter-war years it was Pembroke. Moreover Daniel has overlooked the ladies. Otherwise he would have noticed that Pembroke’s ladies have headed the Mays for 4 of the last 5 years and the Pembroke men nearly joined them this year, finishing second.

Dr Steven Halliday, Pembroke

BMC

Botswana Meat Commission F.C brought their recent run of defeats to an end on Saturday, as they achieved a credible 1-1 draw against a free-scoring Centre Chiefs team. Now sitting in 10th, manager Kaizer Kalambo and his team have a crucial week ahead. First they play TASC F.C, who are currently second bottom with only one win all season. However, BMC’s woeful away record means that this game promises to be more difficult than it appears. Later in the week, BMC travel to play a strong Botswana Defense Force XI, that few would expect a result from. This week’s big story has been off the field again, as the Botswanan F.A and its president Daniel Fani came under fire for withdrawing their bid for the 2015 African Cup of Nations and a series of calamitous administrative errors.