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Italy triumph

We were not that optimistic going into the Euros. We lacked our best midfielder Claudio Marchisio, aside from our Fiorentina’s youthful talent Bernardeschi the azzurri had no creativity in the midfield. We call such players registas the same word for a film producer. They usually wear the [...]

June 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Back to the future

Yesterday was a long one, involving as it did setting off from the south coast at 7.30am to take my aged father to a lunch in central London and then back again. Never mind the driving or the meal, it was the double dose of rush-hour (morning and afternoon) that was the biggest ordeal. Upon [...]

June 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Back in the old routine

Early yesterday evening I went up to the gym to blow a few cobwebs away by doing what at my age I would call a session (but maybe those under the age of forty might not because it consists of me doing only whatever exercising I can until immediately I feel either body or spirit becoming unwilling). [...]

June 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Same old, same old

For some reason I thought  of the European Championships in Italy  in 1980: riots in the park and England going out fecklessly. After a few tournaments which went benignly in terms of violence since 1998, when there was again trouble in Marseilles, I saw the same dismal scenes of cafes trashed, [...]

June 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Buddy road chat

Twice this week I have been a passenger on long car journeys largely spent in conversation with a friend who was the  driver. There is  something about a such a journey that is conducive to a deeper conversation. In both cases the journeys were blighted by traffic jams that put at least another [...]

June 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Meanwhile, at the back …

With Euro 2016 beginning at the end of the week, here’s a piece on the issues arising from Roy Hodgson’s defensive selections written by Amy Lawrence that appears today on the website of The Guardian and deserves as wide an audience as possible  – see here – THE [...]

June 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Here we go, here we go …

And so we’re off! Last night the England football squad completed its warm-up campaign for Euro 2016 by beating Portugal 1-0 in a friendly match at Wembley and now flies out to its base in France before playing its first group game against Russia in Marseille a week tomorrow. I can vaguely [...]

June 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hove, Amex and motoring incident

I went to Hove for the second day running to watch Sussex play Derbyshire. Derbyshire trail by 102 runs at 195-8 so the only block to a victory is the weather. Sunday had glorious weather and I would not have wished to be anywhere in the world than in the sun with a pint of Harvey’s in the [...]

May 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Football finals

Yesterday I watched almost consecutively the Play Off and Champions League Final. Strangely enough I could have attended both. The greatest obstacle in watching the Champions League final is not a ticket but a hotel room. My wife’s South African niece is touring Lake Como and had a hotel room [...]

May 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Alfie’s Boys

It was inevitable in the 50th anniversary of the World Cup victory there would be a tv tribute to the victors of 1966.  Sadly with Alan Ball and  Bobby Moore lost to us , substitutes had to be found in the form of The son of  Ball and Tina first wife of Moore.  Footage could also be used  for [...]

May 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

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