Former Brazil, Barcelona and Milan superstar, Ronaldinho, has admitted for the first time that he deeply regrets snubbing a move to Basingstoke Town earlier this year.
Speaking from his palatial Buckskin residence, a gaunt and remorseful looking Ronaldinho described himself as feeling like Pete Best, the so called fifth Beatle who left the Liverpool popsters shortly before fame and fortune came their way.
"I know how Pete Best must have ...
There was a time when a professional football match at Reading was a place for oddballs. Everywhere you looked there would be harmless social inadequates, 40 year old men who still lived with their mum's and nicotine stained old boys who hadn't missed a game since they were six.
Over the years as a new stadium was built, commercial avenues opened and with players starting to come from all over Europe and beyond, the necessity for the market...
One of the hardest things I find when writing is how and when to use a comma.
There are pretty much hard and fast rules when it comes to other forms of punctuation but the comma is unique, because it is open to debate when it should be used.
When it first arrived in the English language (in the 18th century) the comma was supposed to signal a pause as well as separate phrases and clauses.
However, the comma was almost too popular for ...
When you look on the news or social media these days, it appears that something has to be either "awesome" or "catastrophic" with precious little time for issues that are far more dangerous but sadly, far less interesting to the masses who are addicted to impending bogus weather events featured in The Daily Express, reality TV and the outbreaks of Sci-Fi like viruses such as Ebola.
A recent Gallup Poll has suggested that out of one thousand ...
My latest weekend break out and about the great British countryside took us on a trip to the rolling hills of the Cotswolds taking in a visit to the chocolate box towns of Woodstock, Chipping Norton, Moreton in the Marsh and Bourton on the Water.
The first thing I noticed about the Cotswolds is that every village has an obsession with Union Jack flags and I can't help but feel that there is a scent of polite racism hanging in the air that ...