Some random thoughts on latest dramatic developments in the UK, all the more random for lack of sleep. First the Really Good News. As for the feverish politics, note the following. It is not only that the new Parliament is ‘hung’, ie no party has an overall majority. It is […]
I cravenly sat here gibbering with nerves rather than listen to the radio commentary of Manchester City v Tottenham: the key game of the season with the winner making it in to the Champions League qualifiers. And … hurrah! Which reminds me of the 1981 Cup Final replay. An evening […]
As the English football season culminates in a number of all-or-nothing matches, the Mighty Spurs are chasing hard for fourth place and Champion’s League football next season for the first time. So it’s worth remembering what football is really about. Disappointment. Most teams are losers. Necessarily. As I wrote back in […]
My earlier piece on Football Fascism over at Business and Politics caught quite a lot of attention. So, here is some more, exporing the strange collectivism of Michel Platini: “I am not a financier, but I have a financial philosophy, which is that you cannot spend more than you generate…” Zut. What […]
My musing on the subject of the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune as they have affected Manchester United prompted reader Ron (emphasis added): When teams at the top play each other, or teams at the bottom, they are referred to as ’six pointers’. You have the opportunity to claim […]
Here is a brisk piece I wrote over at Business and Politics, denouncing Labour schemes to loot football clubs to promote the ‘mutualisation’ of public services and the ‘democratisation’ of football club ownership. This is so repulsive and insane an idea that one scarcely knows where to start. OK, I’ll […]
A lively effort is being mounted to raise money to secure the release of one Nick Hogan, who has been imprisoned here in the UK for not paying a £3000 fine and a further £7000 in costs for failing to stop people smoking in his pub. Try Old Holborn, who […]
There are different sorts of bloggers. Apart from all those who write honestly and well about Cats or Cars or Cooking or somesuch, there are those of us who attempt to tackle wider themes. And we fall into two general categories: 1 Those who press their points home by unrelenting […]
Following Swedish developments closely as one must, I found this story linking my team Tottenham to an individual example of Swedish bandy extremism. And is some furtive ethnic cleansing busily under way in Malmo? It is always difficult to work out when something is just an idiotic if unpleasant episode of local and no wider […]
European Voice looks at the humiliation of the Eurozone if Greece has to go to the IMF for help with its uneconomic economy, and the different schemes being cooked up by other EU members to try to manage the problem: There is mounting concern in Frankfurt, Brussels and in other eurozone […]
