• What’s it all about, Alfie?
    When a player dominates a game to the extent that no other could be considered extant…. When a player cruises beyond bruises and delivers shock and awe… and a four purloined score… how then to acknowledge any other talent? “He’s one of our own…..” Well that’s not Cold Palmer yet that unerring charmer has boom-bombed […]
  • Nameless shirts
    When was the last time England really got me excited? I forget Who was the last England manager that I really, really trusted to lead our troops? I forget Why was it that Lampard, Gerard, Scholes didn’t gel? I forget But I do have my own opinion And in mine own dominion, I’ll hold court […]
  • World Pi Day
    14th March, annually; where Pi = 3.14159 etc IF ONLY my team could generate Pi for points based on: not only winning but winning well with audaciousness with commitment and effort with an extra element of skill and all in all, to enthrall and thrill All I want from my team is to be like […]
  • veneer
    This little-boy-masquerading-as-senior-citizen still dreams – but it seems reality is ever more clear-cut; for every piercing pain or aching joint brings an inevitablility of non-attainment to this football-nut!
  • The measure of our dreams
    I buried myself in my sport There’s no doubt I gave it my all For whenever a match was mentioned Without fail, I always heeded the call Put a ball at my feet And I was off like a whippet Always to the sound of my own commentary…. “Beats one, beats two”; and that’s just […]