Joe Hart or Hart Crane? Mesut Ozil or Osip Mandelstam? Seamus Heaney or Seamus Coleman? Joe Allen or Allen Ginsberg ? Charles Bukowski or Bob Lewandowski? William Soutar or Graeme Souness? Derek Mahon or Steve McMahon? Wilfred Owen or Michael Owen? Samuel Coleridge or John Aldridge? Ted Hughes or Emlyn Hughes? Giuseppe Gioachino Belli or […]

We bought you in the Window and we got you on the cheap, just after we let Luis go (grown men were seen to weep). You’re not his twin, or next of kin, (was Brendan half asleep?) and who but him would take you in a thousand misses deep? We loved you for your opener […]

The superb athleticism of Gini Wijnaldum. I reserve no skepticism for the genie, Wijnaldum. We deserve no criticism, we, his fandom. The absurd cynicism that his skills are random! The midfield at Anfield is strengthened by Gini. The odds against failure are lengthened by Gini. His goals against Barca frightened Ter Stegen. Along with Origi […]

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Mr. McGregor, our history teacher, keeps a list of the codes that will unlock his future ― 1057 – Macbeth at Lumphanan – are the digits that turn his burglar alarm on. 1314 – Bannockburn. Stirling v Sterling was a turning point around which the cogs of his bike lock go whirling. 1513 – The […]