I read one of these "Things to do Before You are 50!" articles in a Sunday supplement a while back and it recommended a "Brick Lane Curry." I am not sure where it all goes wrong if you don't have a Brick Lane curry until you are 51, but last week I was just 44, so this left me six years away from danger when we ticked off this rather odd recommendation during London pub crawl to celebrate my ...
I have been reading various press reports recently with great interest, the case of the John Terry racial slur has caused journalists to be very careful what they are writing as one false word and their career is over. It is safe to say that any defence of John Terry (who has yet to be found guilty) will find a sports writer becoming the press equivalent of racist "comics" Jim Davidson or Bernard Manning, so in many cases the true picture of ...
Sometimes I wonder what I am going to to write about, then, suddenly, there are almost too many things to cram in to what is supposed to be a topical blog, so I have to trim it down to highlights. This week-end had so much going on it is hard to know where to start, but I think I will begin with the unlikely defeat of the World and European football champions (Spain) by a limited but spirited England side who I have learned to ...
Have you got your Poppy on? I have bought two I think, perhaps three, donating a few quid to the Royal British Legion in the process in hoping that it may go some way to helping some poor bastard who has had his legs blown off in one of the horrendous wars the Bush/Blair axis took us in to in the last decade or so. One of these wars, if you remember, was in Iraq, where troops were sent to save the British people from an all out ...
I had a really busy day on Saturday, followed by a desperately exhausted Sunday. I started the day by volunteering to referee a game featuring Broughton Under 9's and Wherwell Shooters in front of a healthy crowd at the Broughton playing fields. This was really enjoyable and I think I did pretty well considering the mayhem going on around me, under nine games feature a handful of really talented kids amongst others who sprint ...