Spend Spend Spend!

A week before ‘Transfer Deadline Day’, the following exchange took place prior to the billionaire Chelsea owner, Todd Boehly, being interviewed on the radio. Reporter: What impact has austerity had in football? Boehly: Austerity, never heard of him. Who’s he? Reporter: I mean – Boehly: Is he available? Let’s get him quick! By the time…

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Fantasy Football

League tables can – and do – play havoc with the imagination. Dreams get ignited and nightmares flare up. Only two games into the Premiership season and the media would have us jostling for our team as ‘top four’ contenders or ‘relegation material’. And it’s still August, so still time for sunshine-lazy days and wallowing…

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The Glorious Twelfth

Mention of August 12th in some sections of society will have fingers twitching and tweed jackets brushed-down and ready. Welcome to the first day of the grouse-shooting season, the ‘Glorious Twelfth’ as participants would have it. A calendar highlight of the year for the aristocracy in decades past, it’s now money more than pedigree that…

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Only A Game?

Twenty teams in the Premier League: twelve managers sacked … so far! What’s going on? Read on. Children pat out sandcastles from coloured buckets on a sunny day at the beach. A cluster of senior citizens shuffles dominoes across a pub table. Teenagers high-five a strike at a ten-pin bowling alley. A family throws a…

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