Pinned“Diary from the 2022 FIFA World Cup”Out Now! Hot off the Press! After weeks of waiting for my “Author’s Copy” (Author’s Copy!) it finally arrived from the other side of the world, and I’ve already changed the cover once more! So please don’t judge this particular book by its cover as after yet more revisions and…Books2 min readBooks2 min read
Pinned“Ashes to Ashes”Out Now! Hot off the Press! and just like a London bus outside Lords Cricket Ground in London, no sooner has your favourite writer here on Medium released his very first self published book, along comes another one. “Ashes to Ashes” is the book I’ve always wanted to write about…Publishing1 min readPublishing1 min read
PinnedIn Court with Pink Floyd“Good morning, Worm your Honour”. On 4th January 2023 I am to appear in front of a Judge at a local County Court in relation to a near ten year “debt” with a now defunct, and much maligned, “Energy” company. It’s quite the tale I can tell you, which I…Law25 min readLaw25 min read
PinnedOzark, Radiohead and a Peaky Blinders warning from the Daily Mail“The lunatics have taken over, the asylum. Waiting on the rapture”. It’s a lazy statement to assert that Radiohead, the genre defying band from Oxford, England are a political band. But they are and I’m a lazy obsessive of their incredible music that now stretches back almost three decades. We…Writing12 min readWriting12 min read
PinnedMy Dad in a Field of Dreamsand why I can’t watch a silly baseball film about baseball that isn’t about baseball 1986 was an odd year. I had achieved a schoolboy dream of playing for my Senior School football team and a team that contained many associate schoolboys who were signed with either Portsmouth or Southampton…Father And Son19 min readFather And Son19 min read
2 days agoHonours even in the Manchester sunshineManchester City 1 Liverpool 1, 25th November 2023. MANCHESTER CITY 1 (Haaland 27) LIVERPOOL 1 (Alexander-Arnold 80) “HIT IT!” screamed your favourite football correspondent in all of the known world, and Liverpudlian superstar Trent Alexander-Arnold did just that after a sublime first touch perfectly set up a pile driver of…Sports5 min readSports5 min read
Nov 19Australia spoil the Indian coronation to become World ChampionsWorld Cup Final, India v Australia, 19th November 2023. India 240 all out Australia 241–4 Australia win by 6 wickets When Australian captain Pat Cummins won the pre-game toss and inserted India into bat it was a ballsy move to say the very least. Contravening time held cricketing traditions and…Cricket5 min readCricket5 min read
Nov 17Captain Cummins leads Australia into World Cup FinalAustralia v South Africa, 16th November 2023. South Africa 212 all out Australia 215–7 Australia win by 3 wickets Prologue: A captain’s tale When South African captain Temba Bavuma won the toss and elected to bat first it was universally agreed amongst an excitable TV commentary team that he’d made…Sports6 min readSports6 min read
Nov 15Kohli and Shami guide India to one win from destinyIndia v New Zealand, 15th November 2023. India 397–4 New Zealand 327 all out India win by 70 runs At 220–2 with skipper Kane Williamson 69 not out and teammate Daryl Mitchell on the precipice of a third stunning century in this pulsating Semi-Final in Mumbai, the “Black Caps” of…Sports4 min readSports4 min read
Nov 13“Cause I got too much life. Running through my veins. Going to waste”Take That. Robbie Williams. And life in a song. “I want to write Karma Police by Radiohead. But I’m writing Karma Chameleon” Robbie Williams So it was that on a bitingly cold Saturday night I made myself a piping hot cup of tea and snuggled beneath a mound of duvets…Life8 min readLife8 min read
