Soccer Team News, Analysis, History, Schedule, Rumors
As with Mark Twain, rumours of the death of international football were clearly premature. As the World Cup enters the quarter-final phase, it has already been a magnificent celebration of the most beautiful game. There has been only one goalless draw (albeit that France v Denmark was as boring as a hundred normal goalless draws) […] READ MORE
Few players in the history of football can ever have endured as wretched a month as the one that Mohamed Salah has just experienced. Less than four weeks ago, Salah was dreaming of ending his magnificent first season with Liverpool by winning the Champions League Final against Real Madrid, before spearheading Egypt’s long-overdue return to […] READ MORE
I am a scriptwriter (of plays and screenplays, including a biopic of Shakespeare, www.theshakespeareplays.com), journalist (writing on cinema for The Script Lab and on sport for LastWordOnTennis.com and LastWordOnFootball.com) and poet (having written a collection of short poems, entitled Shards, extracts from which have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3). I am married with three children and live in London.