Things I Learnt From The World Cup…

So, what did we learn from the recent World Cup competition in South Africa then? Aside from the fact that I realised that I there is still bad blood between myself and Forlan (more on my side than his, I suspect…) a few things stood out for me. For a start we found...

Roy Hodgson writes …

It was Tor who told me that Roy Hodgson would be writing for the Telegraph during the World Cup – as well as popping up on our television screens – and his first article has appeared today. There’s not even a coded mention of Liverpool for all those...

So far, so good?

The nineteenth World Cup has certainly been different. There’s a distinctive African flavour to football’s great showpiece – you only have to watch the spontaneous congos that spring up around the stadium and less sterile responses to television...

Excuses, excuses…

I love rubbish excuses. You know the kind, when somebody is really clutching at straws to explain something and they come up with something truly pathetic. Some of my favourites include an acquaintance of mine who couldn’t make it down the pub consecutive weeks due to...

One day to go

The World Cup kicks off tomorrow. Not before time. I always find the build-up the most tiresome part. I’m not particularly interested in what suits the boys are wearing, where they’ll be staying or which silly celebratory will be pretending to like...