I know it was tempting but I chose not to watch Tunisia vs Australia this morning in the world cup, instead playing tennis in the park. I appreciate I missed 2 of the power houses of the modern game. With Tunisia being the best team in the whole of Tunisia and Australia being the champions – Read More-
I was sitting in my kitchen, yesterday morning, in pre-work mode. Cup of tea, the morning paper open, just about to unveil the daily banana (what I call ‘cooking breakfast’) and I thought I’d check my emails. My morning check to see how much Groupon love me. And with Black Friday coming up, they love – Read More-
So now we’re really kicking off. Following Sunday’s ‘opener’ between Qatar and Ecuador, we’ve now had some proper football. Meaning: England played. Not just played, but were so victorious that the Ayatollah resigned (if only) and wants to become the supreme head of Great Britain instead now. Cos what’s the point of being the spiritual – Read More-
The World Cup started! Did you see that? Brilliant. Ecuador played the hosts, Qatar, in a match that was… can’t say ‘riveting’ because 1237 riveters died making the stadia… can’t say ‘breathtaking’ because all 6,500 who died stopped breathing at the exact moment of death… and I can’t say ‘outstanding’ because it really wasn’t. But – Read More-
I am’a gay. I am’a disabled. I am’a Qatari. I am’a a migrant worker. I am’a really stupid Italian man in charge of football’s governing body, and’a desperate to try and make a case in support of Qatar. And’a if I totally lose the plot’a in any way’a, its just because I’m’a stupid and NOT’a – Read More-
Should footballers refuse to play in the World Cup because of human rights abuses and institutionalised homophobia by the host nation? Of course not. They’re footballers, they play sport. Politics, equality, social and cultural considerations are really not in the domain of Harry Kane and Lionel Messi. They’ll make their point, wear their rainbow armbands – Read More-
I’d like to make it very clear (politician-speak for ‘what this lacks in clarity, it makes up for in higher volume’) that we, the Conservative Government, are the ‘party of low taxation’. Which is why I am proposing this budget today. In which, we shall tax every many, woman, child, worker, pensioner, retiree, unemployed person, – Read More-
Rishi Sunak, out latest Prime Minister, still in the job for more than 3 weeks now, is working hard. Do you think its easy hanging out in a tropical paradise with a ‘package’ which totally redefines ‘all-inclusive’? Do you think wearing Hawaiian shirts is easy? Are you under some illusion that hanging out with world – Read More-
If you look closely at this picture of our Joey, you might notice, on the left side of his forehead, a bunch of steri-strips. The things you use to close a wound. Hold it together. And thus really could have been invented for little Jo-jo. We were eating dinner, Friday night, usual, noisy, bit’a chicken, – Read More-
…its getting; football’s getting lost… So we had a full fixture list this weekend. Loads’a games, loads’a goals, loads’a… stuff, bit of VAR (inevitably), few ructions, plenty of excitement (Spurs), bit of boring (Arsenal), massive underdogging (Brentford), some ‘tragic’ losses, (Man City, Chelsea), several managers elevated to ‘tightrope’ status (Frankie Lampard, Graham Potter) and all – Read More-