I am not a Luddite, far from it. I have a Blackberry (whatever did I do before?), a shiny new iPod (although after loading my entire CD collection I still have 145GB of memory left), a MacBook pro, two other big Macs, various back up devices, a digital camera, a Humax FreeSat box – the sort of mod [ ... ]
Forgive me Father for it is a long time since my last blog. In fact this is the first since November so if there are any readers left, my apologies. My only excuse is that we have been very, very busy at SportsBooks with German Aczel's book of World Cup caricatures – World Cup 1930–2010. W [ ... ]
Oh dear this blog has to be another obituary. First David Burnside, now Margaret Potts, wife of the legendary manager who took Burnley to the League title in 1960. It should be less of a surprise. David was only 69 and Margaret was 86. But it isn’t. Margaret seemed indefatigable. The last ti [ ... ]
I went to a big football match yesterday – Everton v Aston Villa – and I found all sorts of strange emotions returning. I don’t go to football much these days; that was only the second time in a year, partly because I’m not so much in love with the game any more. Once I was obsessed with it. [ ... ]
Back from Frankfurt, knackered as usual. For SportsBooks it was a great fair but brought back down to earth on the Sunday morning when I had a phone call to tell me David Burnside was dead. I met David only the once although I saw him play many times. For those of you without my anorak tendenc [ ... ]