August 9th - Turnip And Swede (49 days since England’s World Cup exit) No LIE TO ME on this Saturday morning but I spoke of Tim Roth’s assistant and could not resist showing her photograph, for if I had an assistant (I supose a little like Sven Goran-Eriksson) she would be [...]
June 27th - After scoring yet another goal The big talking point this season was ‘Would Liverpool had won the Premier League had Luis Suarez not missed the first eight matches of his incredible season?’ I am not sure, but I do know one thing it triggered [...]
June 29th - Heartbreak For Chile I look over my papers again and at the morning of June 20, the day after Luis Suarez sent us spinning back to reality. The headline in the Sun on that morning were: [...]
June 25th - What Would Have Happened Had Suarez Played Against Norman 'Bite Yer Lgs' Hunter? YEAH, HE’S AT IT AGAIN! Jim Finney with the ‘Great’ Tommy Smith I also remember in one of my first ever matches for Chelsea I swore at one of the great referees [...]
June 24th - Worst Days Of My Life Is what Roy Hodgson told the Sun’s Steven Howard, only 24 hours bedfore he made nine changes from the disastrous teams of the past few days... why disaster? For starters England’s best goal taker is still Jermain Defoe and had these chances that [...]
June 22nd - (two days since England exited World Cup) - Our boys could not hit the target from ten yards! I wake and look at yesterdays headlines tucked (almost hidden) inside the back page of The Sun, when it should have been on the front page when you look at [...]
June 23rd - Hodgson Wants Gerrard To Keep Going, Is He Stark Raving Mad? It is surely about time England need a new look and bring in the likes of Lallana and Barkley to build a team from. Gerrard confirmed on Sunday that he would wait a few weeks before [...]
No Heroes Anymore – Papillon By Patrick O’Brian 1970 All of this last year France has been talking about Papillon, about the phenomene Papillon,which is not merely the selling of very large numbers of an unusually long book, but the discovery of a new world and the rediscovery [...]
Lampard says I’m off as 16 Clubs Chase Him -3rd June (9 days to Brazil) Frank Lampard is the world’s most wanted footballer at 35-years-of-age, which is remarkable, but this is more so! TRUE HERO A century on from the Great War, the courage of British troops are undimmed. Take Dean [...]
After bumping into Roy Hodgson in my very own Kings Road a few weeks ago I thought at last England had chosen a Head Coach with s difference, well they have. Only this time although his international credentials are impressive and on leaving him I thought, ‘At last a man with football intelligence, knowledge, [...]