“All I know most surely about morality and obligations, I owe to football” Albert Camus (1913-1960) Football, boxing, swimming, oui, you did it all, till TB ended your career as a goalkeeper. What football lost, the world gained in a great journalist, author, intellectual, philosopher, defender of truth, moderation, justice, … earlier, defender of the […]

Fair play is the maxim on the football field, do no harm to others but though we make that pledge, others scheme and plan to do elsewise — so precise as they devise mayhem, misery. Christopher T. George

Steven Gerrard turns down £100,000 a week at Liverpool, refuses to sign a new contract, tells the world he’s leaving Anfield for another club. Wait 24 hours, he turns around, says he never wanted to leave, says he’ll sign the deal after all. . . . My mother buys red cherries, tells me how much […]

We won the Champions Cup but we wuz Dead Jammy. The others had better players: Gooners and Red Devils and Chelski but we had Gerrard and Carragher and luck, we fought through the muck, our players had heart, they all played their part, give or take. In the end, who cares if we wuz Dead […]

Got sent off again, ref didn’t admire my reckless challenge — team loses.