Football allegiances, I believe, can be categorised into three sources: supporting your local team (very laudable); glory seeking (glory seeking) and parental indoctrination (who pays for your food?). Balham United, of which the caretaker at… More
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Lovely Jubilee
This week, in the UK, we are celebrating a jubilee. This is the time when you buy a celebratory tea towel – probably overdue as your existing one still has Edward VII on it. I’ve… More
Vole steam ahead
Bit like being in the Scrubs, you are now allowed to leave your house once a day for exercise. Because of the closure of gyms nationally, and therefore the need to find a replacement to… More
Very fuzzy felt
Lionel Messi has probably never played Subbuteo before as, roughly translated from its original Argentinian, means, I’ve been substituted. With World Cup fever still gripping (like the last Ice Age) memories of playing Subbuteo in… More
Phew, wot a scorcher!
In 1976 there was a heatwave like the one we are witnessing today in southern England. I had begun the second year of my advertising career that year and it was at this point that… More
A mo, A mas, A mat (sic)
Unless you liked to sing along to Songs of Praise, Sunday evenings in the late sixties and early seventies, were interminably dull. It didn’t help that homework had to be done: Latin words learned (expugnare… More
My padlock’s bigger than yours
It is ironic, given my most feared lesson at Tooting’s Bec Grammar School, was PE, that I now religiously and willingly attend a gym on a Saturday (Bayern home games permitting) and Sunday (when not… More