Spurs players were left reeling last night after just missing out on their finest ever catastrophe.With the final seconds ticking away, Christian Eriksen delivered a sumptuous misplaced pass that landed at the feet of Sergio Aguero. Sterling slid the ball home and Tottenham's dream tragi-comedy was complete.
And then it wasn't. The scoreboard lit up...offside! The goal would not count. Spurs would progress to the semi-final after all. At the ...
Sometimes, I think we all obsess so much about going abroad,
we don’t bother to visit places in the UK. There are obvious climatic reasons
behind this, but I do think it is worth visiting places nearby more often.
This weekend we headed off to Rye on an AirB&B weekend. I am not very
familiar with the south east of England. Apart from Dover for ferries and
Tunbridge Wells as a kid, I have barely gone east of Brighton.
So, after it ...
It dawned on me at the weekend that last week I passed the six month mark using the Drinkaware app. This personal fad started after watching the Adrian Charles documentary 'Drinkers Like Me'.
So how have I done?
Well, I'm going to tell you, whether you like it or not.
The Stats
Since the 1st September the first to 31st March there has been a total of 212 days. Out of those days I was alcohol free on 112 of them. By rough calculati...
I was talking to my youngest son the other day and he mentioned that he has a dubious claim to fame. He works with the daughter of former Premier League and highly regarded international referee, Howard Webb.
This triggered in my memory a bizarre incident that I was involved in, in 2008. It happened when I was on my way to Warsaw to visit my friend Trevor, who was living there at the time.
When I was waiting for my flight at Luton ...
When I voted to remain in the European Union nearly three
years ago, I did it based on research. That research told me that the Leave
campaign was a blatant right-wing con job. It was, I believed, targeting fertile
ground and aiming at people who could be led on impulse.
Three years on, after a series of investigations, the Leave
campaign has been proven to have lied, cheated and broken election spending
rules. The Leave campaign said this ...
