In a year’s time we’ll all look back on ‘life in Europe’ as a distant memory and probably laugh at all the bother and the price exacted at (and certainly prior to) the point of our actual departure. Which itself is now a bit in doubt. But we’ll know more tonight.When ‘they vote’!! Again. This – Read More-
This time last week I was positively jubilant. Spurs had just beaten Fulham, with our terribly banged-up, starless, bandaged-together team and all looked ok. Then the best news ever on Friday: Korea had lost in the Asian Cup to Qatar (no allegations or implications at all here, I’m sure those Qataris are all little Messis-of-the-desert, – Read More-
I saw the best film ever made last night. No two ways about it, no competition, you can argue from now til hell freezeth over about the runners up; Godfathers and Star Wars and Gone with the fucking Winds, but ‘Vice’ is just… brilliant. And who’d’a thought?? It’s about Dick Cheney. Who? Yeah, we all – Read More-
There’s trouble in Benezuela. Big trouble. The Prez there, Moduro, has led the country to rack and ruin, taking the mantle of destroyer-in-chief from his predecessor, the late Snr Chavez. Now Trump has said that Moduro is no longer the president and America won’t recognise him as such any longer. Instead the Americans have installed – Read More-
Ever watched 7de Laan? Nooooo!! But its the most popular Afrikaans soap opera ever! Watched by millions of… Afrikaaners, its… errrr… brilliant, no doubt. Like all soaps, the stories of which won’t particularly ‘add up’ in the real world but exist within the rarified context of their own little soap bubble. Which now and again – Read More-
Not just a song by the Bee Gees, ya know, the word has a proper meaning. A real meaning for something that’s gone horribly wrong. Like poor Emiliano Sala, the Argentinian striker. A double tragedy. First he has the misfortune to sign to play for Cardiff City, and then, if that’s not bad enough, he – Read More-
Sometimes football is wonderful. Sometimes its shit. Sometimes it hurts and sometimes its drab. But sometimes it is all of the above and then its just a matter of the end justifying the means. And that was yesterday when Spurs went to Fulham. Before that happened Liverpool had a major scare when lowly Palace dared – Read More-
I was blessed this morning. It was cold, it was bright and beautiful and it was about 1 measly degree away from a thick frost which would have stopped tennis. Instead, it was perfect. In a cold way. Which I don’t mind. Because I was dressed ‘appropriately’. The chap on the next court was dressed – Read More-
I just love this. This is a serious version of ‘the future’. Well, part of the future, the bit long after Brexit (should the world still be functioning that far into eternity), but not too far. Hopefully the bit just after Arsenal get relegated. We already accept autonomous vehicles, even though they kill a few – Read More-
So when they said: ‘you need a 7-day heart monitor’, I envisaged something the size of a postage stamp, fixed under my belt, a couple of neat little stick-on electrodes wirelessly linked to it by blue-tooth and life would just work around it all, almost oblivious to its presence. I didn’t expect three fucking great – Read More-