RIP. VIP

RIP. VIP

Outside one of our soccer stadiums there are very helpful and clear signs indicating where team buses should go and also for parking for VIPs; in fact, interestingly, there are also now signs for VVIPs. So, being a Very Important Person is not enough of a...
A LOAD FULL OF BULL

A LOAD FULL OF BULL

It is interesting (or perhaps just a coincidence) that in fairy tales and nursery rhymes there often appear to be three animals. We have three blind mice, not knowing what they are doing (heading in different directions); we have the three bears with Goldilocks, all...
NO COMMENT!

NO COMMENT!

It is one of professional sport’s most ridiculous requirements that managers and even players are put through post-match interviews and pre-match press conferences where the questions tend to be inane, provocative, wearisome, irrelevant, unnecessary and ignoble. They...
PRESSURE POINTS

PRESSURE POINTS

It is interesting to compare the classic film Dead Poets Society to the film we considered in a previous article, Grease. Both were set in schools in America, following teenagers as they searched for their identity; one was set in 1958 and the other in 1959. Both...
FROM GREASE TO GRACE

FROM GREASE TO GRACE

The hugely-popular film Grease (astonishingly only a PG rating), starring John Travolta and Olivia-Newton-John, was made in 1978 but was set in Chicago in 1959, and set out to portray teenagers struggling to come to terms with their identity amid the pressures of...