The Layman

There is something in the English psyche that seems to dislike success and actively wish for successful people to fall.

For a person of my vintage, the career of Michael Owen earmarks just how old we now are and have to act.

There are a number of approaches used by clubs promoted to the Premier League to try to achieve the important goal of retaining top flight status.

In all sports, there is a certain amount of tradition that must be stuck too for pure nostalgia based reasons.

Modern day transfer rumours have something of the whiff of the chicken-and-egg situation about them when it comes to the question of where does the waves of gossip come from?

There is a school of thought in football punditry and football fandom that feels as if everything Sepp Blatter does is a veiled insult or threat to British (read English) football.

As more and more ideas get used up, there is less room for innovation in human life. After all, once someone invented the George Foreman grill (probably not old George) what’s the point in trying to think up something new to go above and beyond it.

The UK is rightly bathing in the glory of Team GB in the Olympic Games thus far, but the Olympic buzz will not lead to an overhaul of the national sporting interest.