This week in 1980
THE NEW YORK TIMES of the 1st of December 1980 reported on a protest taking place in Liverpool. 40,000 people had marched through the streets of "this depressed industrial city" in a "demonstration against Britain's steadily rising unemployment". Special trains and...
THE TIME GORDON BROWN RANG ME AT THE MATCH
A FEW years ago my mother moved to Sudan and took a teddy bear and let her kids name it something she shouldn't have, and for a couple of weeks the world went disproportionately bananas. It transpires there is very little you can do when this happens. Apart from take...
Kelly and co prove Kenny’s playing mind games
IT was great to see Martin Kelly head home that cracking ball from Craig Bellamy for his first goal in the famous red the other night. Just as good was the genuine delight plastered across his face and those of his team-mates. Kelly is obviously a well-liked lad, and...
El Niño Perdido
"There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past." — George Carlin TIME, one of life's only evolving constants, is a funny thing, it will wither you, make you old, it was here before you were born, and it'll be here long after you're dead,...
Sweating sickness – the Lucas injury wait
IT’S the not knowing that kills you. By the time you read this the extent of the injury sustained by Lucas Leiva on Tuesday night may have been confirmed. In the meantime I’ll be mostly feeling sick to the stomach. As the tabloid press would have it, several million...
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This week in 1980
THE NEW YORK TIMES of the 1st of December 1980 reported on a protest taking place in Liverpool. 40,000 people had marched through the streets of "this depressed industrial city" in a "demonstration against Britain's steadily rising unemployment". Special trains and...
THE TIME GORDON BROWN RANG ME AT THE MATCH
A FEW years ago my mother moved to Sudan and took a teddy bear and let her kids name it something she shouldn't have, and for a couple of weeks the world went disproportionately bananas. It transpires there is very little you can do when this happens. Apart from take...
Kelly and co prove Kenny’s playing mind games
IT was great to see Martin Kelly head home that cracking ball from Craig Bellamy for his first goal in the famous red the other night. Just as good was the genuine delight plastered across his face and those of his team-mates. Kelly is obviously a well-liked lad, and...
El Niño Perdido
"There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past." — George Carlin TIME, one of life's only evolving constants, is a funny thing, it will wither you, make you old, it was here before you were born, and it'll be here long after you're dead,...
Sweating sickness – the Lucas injury wait
IT’S the not knowing that kills you. By the time you read this the extent of the injury sustained by Lucas Leiva on Tuesday night may have been confirmed. In the meantime I’ll be mostly feeling sick to the stomach. As the tabloid press would have it, several million...