Summer Heat

Arsenal 2  Everton  2

I’ve just been watching Arsenal v Everton on the TV in my shorts, no shirt and an ice-cold drink in my hand. There’s nothing quite like seeing those sixty-thousand or so frozen, wool-wrapped fans huddled together like penguins having a bad day while all those  around me are complaining about the excessive [...]

Summer Break: Reds v Yellows

The Feminine Touch

Reds  4   Yellows  2

In Argentina they call them Villas Miseria – Misery Towns – rambling, ramshackle communities built on somebody else’s land with stolen bricks and cement, corrugated iron roofs and poor drainage.  Spider webs of electricity and telephone cables criss-cross the sky.

The oldest, biggest and most firmly established shanty-town [...]