But we can all be winners like him. Lets all create bank accounts named after our cats and dogs in Monaco and direct any payments we receive into them. When we’re found out and brought to court, we can just say "we’re thick" and "someone else handles our money" and we’ll get off scott-free. After [...]
Today two red tops carried pictures of a couple of England players laughing, and expressed outrage that they could laugh at a moment such as this. Clearly if they had any respect for their fans and their country they would wait at least a week before cracking any jokes. Meanwhile one of the narratives to [...]
As the London Review of Books celebrates its 30th birthday today, JW Arble picks out ten of his favourites from the new online archive Until I read Stefan Collini’s essay on the state of British universities I didn’t know what they were for, why so many of them seem to be in a mess or [...]
If, like me, you are a football fan then you will already be getting vague itchings of world cup fever. Yet, as things draw nearer another feeling may come over you. It will be a feeling of dread for the ridiculous spectacle with which England begins every match. At the world cup, every national anthem has the [...]
20 years ago today 96 Liverpool football fans were crushed to death in Sheffield’s Hillsborough stadium, during an FA Cup Semi-Final game with Nottingham Forest. The disaster had a huge impact on modern football, transforming the nature of football grounds, and consigning terraces to history. It has also had a profound and lasting impact on [...]
I am often told that my love of football is one of the most incongruous things about me. I’m never sure why this is, maybe I’ll write a blog about it some time, but for now it allows me to spot ridiculous stories like this one. Everton footballer Victor Anichebe was arrested in Knutsford in [...]
