So, England start another World Cup campaign with an uninspiring 1-1 draw against a colonial team we should, on paper, annihilate. Don’t think so? Name one Major League Soccer club apart from L.A. Galaxy. You can’t. American football is, comparatively, a non-entity on the global stage. We should be dismantling their backsides like the Germans buckwheated the Australians: 4-0, if not [...]
Ok, this is me, poised over a humble pie of such colon clogging proportions that it could floor Russkie humunculus Nikolai Valuev more effectively than a horseshoe-loaded glove to the knackers. And why should I be so contrite? Because yesterday I tweeted this: Is there anyone alive who doesn’t think David Haye is going to be [...]
Yes! It is! Wedgwood and Royal Doulton – the once proud pottery flagships of my glorious hometown - may be slipping beneath shit creek as Yankees by the coachload decide not to fly 2,000 miles to buy overpriced plates and archaic figurines; The City’s town centres – once thriving hives of humanity – may well be boarded-up barren shells, tumbleweed cascading through thoroughfairs once [...]
