Tag Archives: football
All Together Now – the Football Quarter
If you were following the Twitter #banter during Saturday’s FA Cup semi-final between fans of local rivals Everton and Liverpool, you might be forgiven for thinking it was all a little charged: In reality, we manage – despite our allegiances … Continue reading
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When you walk through a storm
One day soon, within my lifetime I hope, the tone of my annual posts about today’s anniversary of the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster will change from an update on the Hillsborough Justice Campaign to a simple act of remembrance and sympathy … Continue reading
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Never Buy The S*n
I have been reading and enjoying Steven Baxter’s excellent ‘Musings Of A Monkey’ this weekend. In a chapter he describes as hastily cobbled together, but which I would call a very astute summary of the phone hacking scandal of Summer … Continue reading
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The truth
It is difficult to imagine the emotions that the families of the 96 victims of the Hillsborough Disaster must be feeling today, at the news that all government papers – including uncensored cabinet meeting minutes – are to be made … Continue reading
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Well Red magazine Issue 8
What a year it has been for Liverpool Football Club. Ditching two managers, one sometimes loved, one universally loathed. Jettisoning two feckless owners with the assistance of unlikely heroes in the form of investment bankers. In the process beating threats … Continue reading
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Colder than water
I arrived in Japan with so little experience of teaching children that I sometimes wonder if they can tell that I am learning almost as much in class as they are. Many of my students are 11 and 12 years … Continue reading
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Hillsborough: another year passes
I was a little kid in 1989. Smaller than some of the ones I now teach, a bit of a geek, perhaps too fond of my Kate Bush cassettes, spending school holidays watching Star Wars on video over and over … Continue reading
Indirect action
Updates to ten minutes hate have been few and far between lately, for which I am sorry, although in my defence, the situation is as yet nowhere near as bad as it was this time last year when I was … Continue reading
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A song for Roy
There comes a time when you have to let the music do the talking for you: You have tried your best to please everyone But it just isn’t happening No, it just isn’t happening And it’s fucked up, fucked up … Continue reading
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Sugar and spice
Once again, Grace Dent has written the kind of column that should have all intelligent people running around the room cheering and air-punching. I had only made it as far as this paragraph: Sotomayor spent 2010 transforming judicial thought on … Continue reading
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