In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure, and the police take the place of pirates.Michel Foucault
The Golden Boy That Never Was
Harry Leitch is one of those annoying sorts of people. Here I interview him for the Varsity Newspaper.
It is better to fail aiming high than to succeed aiming low. And we of Spurs have set our sights very high, so high in fact that even failure will have in it an echo of glory.Bill Nicholson
On Political Bullshit
The Labour Party seems to have swallowed whole the Tory bullshit about austerity politics. But will this come back to haunt them?
The Only Way is Ethics
It is a common assumption amongst rugby fans that rugby is more honourable than football. What does this really mean?
The End of Football?
With the advent of tiki-taka, some pundits seemed to suggest that the end of football had been reached. In the wake of its collapse, however, we learn a deeper truth about football tactics.
