THE TROUBLE WITH REFEREES  

THE TROUBLE WITH REFEREES  

Bill Shankly, the fanatical soccer manager who reinvented Liverpool Football Club in the late 1960s,  famously said that, “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much  more serious than that.” Had he lived to...
WE ARE FOR THE HIGH JUMP  

WE ARE FOR THE HIGH JUMP  

“You’re for the high jump, boy!” Those are not words that we want to hear, for sure! If we do hear  them, then we are in trouble, serious trouble; we are going to be punished definitely, severely,  swiftly, in which case we would be best to move away from...
A MARATHON METAPHOR

A MARATHON METAPHOR

Many newspapers delight in coming up with very catchy, memorable, clever headlines to persuade  the reader to read the article that follows. One of the greatest examples must surely be one that was  printed in the Sun newspaper in the UK in 2000 when...
I WISH YOU ENOUGH  

I WISH YOU ENOUGH  

We go to a restaurant and are told we can eat whatever and as much as we want, so what do we  do? If we are male, we fill our plate as full as possible and then come back for more; we approach  the dessert table with delight (initially that read “with...
WHITE LIES MATTER  

WHITE LIES MATTER  

It may be hard for some of us to believe (not because of who said it but because of the content of  what is said) what the American businesswoman Mary Kay Ash once claimed, “There are two things  people want more than sex and money.” Our initial thought as...