June 29th – Heartbreak For Chile
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 26th – Great Day For Red Troops
June 26th - Great Day For Red Troops As ex-Sun Editor Rebekah Brooks is found not guilty of all charges of phone hacking after an eight month case which cost an estimated 30 million pounds. Here she is with Charlie, who was once a horse trainer and a close friend of [...]
June 25th – What Would Have Happened Had Suarez Played Against Norman ‘Bite Yer Lgs’ Hunter?
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
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!
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?
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
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 [...]
An Evening in Rocky Rio…Gillingham
An Evening in Rocky Rio…Gillingham I’m delighted to be spending my evening in Gillingham at the 44Two Sports and Social Club immediately after England’s final Group match against Costa Rica. This is the establishment of Andy Hessenthaler the former Watford and Gillingham defender who spent ten years at the club as [...]
Lampard says I’m off as 16 Clubs Chase Him -3rd June (9 days to Brazil)
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 [...]
1st of June Tragedy
The 43-year-old, a retired footballer himself, will serve the sentence for laundering money raised for drug trafficking, the BBC has reported. Edinho was first arrested back in 2005 and has served a sentence for drug trafficking offences, in addition to having links with a notorious drug dealer in the city of Santos. [...]