Last September, I had what was to be the first of several stays in the Beacon Hotel in Sandyford, Dublin. It sells itself as a ‘boutique’ hotel and, although it’s a little bit Bohemian, it’s a great hotel. All the rooms are kitted out identically, with one of the main...
One of the Wigan Athletic Facebook fan sites has been running a series of polls to establish the supporters’ all-time favourite Latics XI. This has led to a whole raft of arguments about the final selection, mainly because most of us Wiganers are too daft to...
By comparison to its normal dull, predictable English football standards, this has been a funny old season so far. Man United continue their surprising fall from grace, Chelsea are in the bottom half of the table and Leicester City are top of the Premier League. Even...
The English language is a marvellous thing, it’s a fantastic tool for communication. Which is just as well really because I’m sure we’d all get very frustrated if we had to resort to sign-language or semaphore as a means of getting our point across....
I read that an Australian referee found a novel way of deciding who would kick-off a Boxing Day A-League football match between Sydney and Central Coast. Instead of tossing a coin, which is, of course, the traditional method, he made the two captains pull a Christmas...
