Poor old Ray Wilkins (Chelsea assistant coach) faced the humiliation of being sacked at half time of a reserve match yesterday in a ruthless demonstration of how the regime at Stamford Bridge works. I suppose that's what you should expect working for a Russian Oil Baron. This got me thinking about my working life, and whether I had ever been treated so badly, but remarkably, I have never had the humiliation of the sack, though I have been close ...
This week seems to evolved in to an ongoing debate of morals. We have had the admission by former US president George Bush to waterboarding terror suspects, Britain preaching human rights in China whilst trying to tie up lucrative trade deals, and Newcastle United footballer and bad boy Andy Carrol on the verge of being selected for the England team.Lets start with waterboarding. I have to say that I have not come across this before ...
I am reading a book at the the moment called The Naked Jape which an intriguing insight in to why we laugh and what makes us do it. It is something I haven't really thought about before because it is an instinctive human trait that goes back millions of years. So what does make us laugh? It would appear that laughing is very complex indeed and recent research from Stanford (below) would appear to confirm not much, apart from the ...
I have had a bit of sciatica in my leg and back this week, so this morning I decided that I would try to go for a light jog to release the niggling nerve. Imagine the joy I felt as I crossed through a playing area and my right foot thudded in to a colossal dog turd that embedded itself in to every nook and cranny of the sole of my trainer. If you are going to tread in dog shit, I suppose you might as well do it in style, and do it with a trainer ...
My eldest son is now approaching 15 and after helping him learn to shave so he could remove some fluffy growth above his lip, it began to dawn on me that I am about to embark on the next phase of parental worrying. Kids are a constant concern, firstly you are terrified they might die in a cot, then they are toddlers whacking their heads on a daily basis (George had a permanent dent in his forehead) and going walkabout without you noticing. Then ...