If this year’s RBS Six Nations tournament produces a better game than the one that England and Wales showcased at Twickenham the rugby world is in for an unprecedented feast. Don’t let the relatively low 12-19 score line deceive: it couldn’t have been more exciting. It couldn’t have been closer. Well into injury-time David Strettle… [Read more…]
It appears that England interim head coach Stuart Lancaster has been reading Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Huxley wrote: “Ending is better than mending. The more stitches, the less riches.” His next book should be Beowulf. The narrative of English rugby union at the moment is an interesting one. It is comparable to the Old… [Read more…]
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A famous Green Bay Packers American Football coach once said: “Mental toughness is essential to success.” Vincent Lombardi, whose name has been immortalised as the National Football League’s (NFL) Super Bowl trophy, cannot have known how true his statement would ring in the coming decades of global professional sport. Of course, as one of the… [Read more…]
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As the Chinese philosopher Confucius once remarked: “Ability will never catch up with the demand for it” – an observation pertinent for many English cricket fans and sages today. As an avid English cricket fan the two results in Dubai and Abu Dhabi over the last two weeks have been nothing short of catastrophic. As… [Read more…]
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It was a case of a drowsy giant being stung by an ever-dangerous snake at Dubai’s International Cricket Stadium this week. And that is not to cast a serpentine aspersion on the Pakistani’s; it is simply a metaphor designed to explicate the nature of the unpredictable beast. The combination of Pakistan’s mercurial cricketing talent and… [Read more…]
The convocation was summoned by Terry Dorksen, CEO of Dorkbus, and Adbul Dhorkha Prime Minister of Dorking 7000. They both sat gawking at the fallow wall opposite their table, which was perched at the front of the room with a panoramic view of the world’s media dorks. They had been assembled for a press conference… [Read more…]
Man-flu, Oh! man-flu, wherefore art thou man-flu? A cold by any other name would be just as snotty. But for the pestilent shame of scorn and mockery From those wenches of disreputable disposition Do you assign yourself this epithet of false agony
Ricky Gervais has caused outrage in the gossip community of LA’s finest with his no-holds-barred approach to hosting the 68th Golden Globe awards ceremony. The outspoken Brit’s performance has divided Hollywood A-listers and celeb commentators alike. Robert De Niro and Alec Baldwin were on the verge of tears with laughter throughout Gervias’ routines, while Messers… [Read more…]
I haven’t questioned the fundamental basis of humanism more since I read Franz Kafka’s Metapmorphosis than when I recently finished Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. The ash covered no-mans-land of McCarthy’s novel reduces the very essence of human living to one of barbaric animalism where only the depraved survive. This shocking reduction of the human condition… [Read more…]
The contemporary world of television advertising is often as illogical as the circumference of a pringle pot. Just in the way the average hand is too big to reach the pringles at the bottom, the average, rational human being cannot understand the adverts he is witnessing on the box. On my winter holidays in 2010… [Read more…]
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March 2, 2012
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