August 9th - A Kiss Of Death THE WORLD CUP 1970 Yesterday: In the March of 1970, all my troubles seemed so far away, now it seems as if they’re here to stay, oh I believed in ‘Yesterday’. Suddenly, I was half the man I used to be… I’d done nothing [...]
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 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? 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 [...]