This blog is about the 2026 Football World Championship, a competition on which I reluctantly became hooked. I had planned to ignore the games, and tucked away in our cottage in France this approach would be easy. There would be an exception; I would watch, if I could, the games involving England’s ‘Three Lions’ -…
They was robbed
Football divides us, and for those of you who see the 'beautiful game' as irrelevant, aggressive or even repulsive, here is a health warning: this blog is not for you. However, those who empathise are invited to read on. The final Saturday afternoon of the season was a topsy turvy affair with anxiety and exhilaration…
Fair game
Claims championing the prowess of women have come thick and fast in the last weeks. First, it was over a meal when one of my sons argued forcefully that women have always been the great civilisers, and that it is through their influence on men that people live together as citizens and that society has…
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