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 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) 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 [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
The World Cup and this ongoing Crazy World With England once again failing to live up to the media hype and the truly unbelievable leadership of Fabio Capello in those European Championships, those clowns at the Football Association made the obvious change. But how many times have we seen these [...]
Most Famous Players Gone for a Burton It is Play-off day in League Two and the one thing that sticks in my mind is how Chelsea were very fortunate that Bobby Robson never listened to my father when being tipped off about Ian Hutchinson. ‘Hutch’ who became Peter Osgood’s magnificent [...]
Extract from my latest Book… Exactly one year on from this most incredible and brutal killing of Lee Rigby it still shakes me to the core and every time I walk from the shop carrying my carrier bag or laptop bag I think of Lee. I look around me and [...]
Things don’t look too good on these Shores… Last year we were looking forward to a Champions League when the Germans dominated the competition, but now this coming Saturday it’s the Spanish, which is another “Kick in the Head” if you like Dean Martin, for English football, where we have [...]
As Luck would have it… I told you the story about my luck with management, here is the other side of the coin… The man who signed me at Arsenal, Terry Neil, unbeknown to me was a very luck y man whilst serving out his time at Hull City…That meaning he [...]