From the monthly archives: August 2012
I am quite a sucker for a Hero. Our son’s middle name is Haynes, after my childhood idol Johnny Haynes – lifelong Fulham player, captain ofEngland, first £100/week footballer and the sweetest passer of the ball that I have ever seen. (More about The Maestro on another occasion.) This weekend, the subject of ‘heroes’ comes [...]
OK I am guilty! I am guilty of writing the above headline because it is provocative and presumably attention-grabbing. And I am also totally guilty of replying to my daughter’s question as to whether I’d be watching The Paralympics on television with the flip answer: “No! And I won’t be tuning into Dwarf Throwing either!” [...]
The Ericle hasn’t spoken for a week. Nothing wrong with that – I didn’t sign up to be a virtual cockerel. So it’s not a breach of my job description, when I don’t come up with a crow every dawn. However the truth must out: despite the [...]
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