• WC2014 – Day 1- Alleluia
    World Cup football’s ris’n today (Alleluia) Millions bend their knees to pray (Alleluia) O’er Sao Paulo sits the star (Alleluia) There’s no room in any bar (Alleluia) In the stable sits Sepp Blatter (Alleluia) eager to sit down and natter (Alleluia) while the shepherds, kings and peasants (Alleluia) lay before him bounteous presents (Alleluia) Lo! […]
  • There’s always somebody
    There’s always somebody who’ll state that small country refs are not great. And that in this great World Cup of ours, refs should come from footballing powers. Small nation refs can be quite skittish – they all should be German or British. Yet a ref who’s a Lapp or Creole could not do worse than […]
  • Mexico 1970
    Ghosts of Gerson, Cubillas and Muller drifting, not as then, in black and white but striding forth in glorious technicolour. Exotic flowers make rockeries seem fuller and I inhaled their nectar with delight in dreams of Gerson, Cubillas and Muller. Inevitably, some games seemed much duller but memory has put them all to flight, wiped […]
  • England still believe
    Brazil will have the weight of expectation on their heads – the Final party’s ready and they’re waiting to begin it. Spain are still the giant that each other country dreads and Montserrat Caballé may be singing like a linnet, but England still believe that they can win it. It’s probable the Germans will be […]
  • Let us Arise and Join Yaya
    (Let us Arise and Join Yaya in his Struggle… against Greedy and Uncaring Bosses) At this stage of my life, the children and indeed grandchildren are measuring my compos mentis by the stories that I tell and the number of times that I tell ‘em, For they say it is a good way to judge […]