• Of course we can stop talking about the football …….. If we live in a world without inequality , where injustice is vanquished . In an England without food banks , a Palestine without a wall , a Rio without child slaves . On a globe that values the young and the old. Then we […]
  • 400 years of attitude .. Points for Nigeria and Ghana …. Don’t tell me Africa is having a bad World Cup. They play so well your boys But not for the countries from which their ancestors were ripped. They play so well your boys for the nations of the continent which hosts. They play so […]
  • 64 years of hurt And so on to Belo Horizonte where Finney, Wright and Ramsey were humbled. Set to meet up with the England club members, the butchers,bakers, scandal makers. Opinions for goalposts . “Get Rooney out ! Stevie’s great , get the Ox in the box , let Barkley create ” One last time […]
  • It’s the hope that kills or – why do we always end up at the beginning? It’s such a fragile existence supporting Ingerland , we get sucked in by the hype, fly the flags high . We polish the hope and dream of the glory but it’s all a bubble, and there’s gonna be trouble […]