Easter is magical. Always has been. Four days off work. Free. Not missing nuffink. And its lovely. Relaxing. Couldn’t play tennis yesterday due to rainage. Then Mel & I went for our ‘walk’, got half way up the road and it started raining again. Turned round, came home, turned on the tv. Well, I did, – Read More-
I normally hate ‘international breaks’ in the football. Especially for friendlies. Mainly because I’ve lost heart with ‘England’ football, much as I’m madly in love with ‘England’ rugby. Odd, eh? Or not, that’s what it is. This international break is a good one though, because I’m relaxed about the league. Spurs are second. They’re nicely – Read More-
Adam Johnson gets 6 years for grooming a ‘child’ and having some kind of sexual activity (he said, she said… we don’t want or need to know) with her. Good riddance to his career. But that’s a small price to pay, though not in monetary terms. Yet there are some who reckon that 6 years – Read More-
What’s happened to sport? Where’s the ideology gone? The problem is that someone made it a bit too competitive. Oh. It is competitive. That’s what its all about really. The nature of ‘sport’. Competition. They’re equivalents. So you want to win. Always. And sometimes you need to try a bit harder, work a bit longer, – Read More-
I love an election. (The late Benny Hill, in Chinese persona, made a career out of that sentence). And there’s loads of elections just around the corner. First though you need to work out who is going to stand. And the American bandwagon keeps on rollin’. Now its the turn of Utah to vote. So – Read More-
“I have a lot of respect for (fill in name of your choice); BUT…” That’s the sentence that precedes a hatchet job. Always. No-one ever says they have respect for someone before praising them. Its not really necessary, the respect is implicit in the praise. But when someone starts by proclaiming ‘respect’ for; Donald Trump, – Read More-
As the final part of the ongoing and intentionally excessive celebrations of Mel’s birthday, we went to see the show ‘Beautiful’ on Saturday night. With Mel’s twin sister who shares the same birthday. What are the odds? And a few other selected brothers and sisters and in-laws. Its simply brilliant. The show. Ok, and the – Read More-
We need to talk about Turkey. Not the food, though that would be nicer, tastier and a bit more ‘nigella’, but the country, the nation, the state. And what a state its in. Turkey straddles two regions. It borders Europe to the west and the middle East on its eastern borders. Syria to be precise. – Read More-
Iain Duncan Smith has resigned his post of work and pensions secretary. And I’m going to miss him. He was at one time the leader of the conservative party but lost his job due to excessive blandness and the almost unique ability of making the most exciting thing totally dull and boring in his expressing – Read More-
You can’t buy class. Ask any football manager. But in Britain its actually a fact. ‘Class’ is what posh aristocrats have, what they’re born with, what they’ve inherited from their prestigious forebears and for everyone else, no amount of Ferraris, tattoos or semi-naked selfies can buy it. An impoverished, unemployed scrounger is thus ‘better’ than – Read More-