This is our latest box-to-box model, Mr Southgate! Typical. You wait a lifetime for a bit of success and then, like London buses, two semi-finals come along in less than last twelve months. Surely this gives us hope and optimism. Our ridiculously overpaid, overrated...

At CNN he’s known as Jim Acosta, a reporter of impeccable credentials of many years standing. Trump christened him a ‘rude, terrible person and that CNN should be ashamed to employ him’ blah de blah. ’ This, by the way, is all a bit rich when you think of the shame...

Before I wrote this blog I looked up the definition of ‘Holocaust’ in five different dictionaries plus an online definition. Only one of the dictionaries defined it as ‘the destruction and loss of life of on an enormous scale.’ The other four sources had roughly...

It’s always the same ain’t it? As soon as any sports star gets caught acting a bit dodgy their first reaction is to become the victim, look for sympathy, blame something or something else, and in so doing deflect their conscious breaking of the rules or their...

Who was it who said that bad things never come to an end? I don’t know, but it does appear as if things might be about to change and hopefully for the better. You see the zillionaire owner and founder of Facebook, Mr Mark Zuckerberg is facing an investigation by the...

Honestly, some people are never bloody satisfied. In recent weeks, those who once shouted the virtues of VAR from the rooftops are now crying for it to be ditched. The ref can’t be heard, the crowd have no idea why VAR is being consulted, they don’t feel part of the...

America is praying. It likes nothing more. The country can turn to God quicker than Donald Trump can hurl an insult. But it has not occurred to the nation that whoever God is, he's not  listening. There have been seven school shootings this year alone. 250 students...

Did you ever buy an item of clothing from a shop or online? It looked lovely. They had it your size, in your favourite colour, and you already had in mind that special event where you were going to wear it in front of your friends who would go green with envy, and...