• George Best (1946-2005)
    United had balding Englishman Bobby Charlton, flaxen-haired Scot Dennis Law, and later, mop-topped Welshman Mark Hughes. All three served United steadfastly and well. –But there’ll be only one wee Georgie Best, the dark Belfast boyo, a wizard of the game, simply the Best. Christopher T. George
  • Dropping the Pilot
    A famous cartoon by Sir John Tenniel in “Punch” March 1890: The Kaiser rests his elbows nonchalently on the ship’s rail as Bismarck descends. So too Sir Alex and Roy Keane: where next for United now the Pilot has been dropped? Christopher T. George
  • Red Inside and Out
    I am going to a bar in cold and windy Washington, D.C. to watch Liverpool play on TV in the Champions League. It is the Lucky Bar and I hope the establishment will be lucky for us once again. But I am embarassed because I still don’t have my red LFC scarf. I know my […]
  • Toby with Aisling at Spanish Point
    Not a poet, no, although Toby was a bard of the bottle no doubt, with a song and a rhyme, his thick red beard under his Harris tweed hat, no eyes to be seen, his briar pipe fumigating the Irish air with Ogden’s flake. His wheelchair making it onto the sands, a chore for the […]
  • When Crouch will score
    In off his bum he’ll leave us numb. In off his little toe he’ll end his woe. In off his big ear — It’s a goal, clear? In off his nose — to beak it, over everyone he rose! In off his sacroiliac — he’s a Scouser, now, Wack! In off his liver he’ll be […]