“If you had seen my school reports, you would see why I wanted to be a footballer!” Those are the words of not just any old soccer player, though they

Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard, Paul Scholes, Bobby Charlton, Wayne Rooney – we have probably all heard of them all and can find some common denominators in them. They are all

John Arlott has been mentioned in a previous article and, as well as having a gifted imagination and descriptive mind, showed his perceptiveness further when he declared once that “We

What do the following people have in common: John Arlott (the famous cricket commentator with a poetic touch in his voice), Thomas Hardy, (the celebrated author and poet of the

A man lived on the 25th floor of his apartment block and every day he took the lift all the way down but when he came home at night he

There was a classic moment in one of the early ‘Pink Panther’ films when Inspector Clouseau asked a barman if his dog bites, to which the barman replied, “No!” The

A man once had a beautiful Labrador dog called Duke who used to sit in front of his master with great delight, only for him to lift one of Duke’s

It is assumed that all readers are educated people here so let us consider a few questions. The first one is this: Who said: “Some are born great; some achieve

The All Blacks rugby team has been studied over the years to ascertain how they had become so successful and in a book by James Kerr, it all came down

In 1982 the pop group ‘Tears for Fears’ reached Number 3 in the UK charts with a song entitled ‘Mad World’. Its lyrics included the lines: “All around me are