Reflection

After strong complaints from bus passengers and members of my family, I’ve put the Argentinos Juniors shirt I was wearing at Sunday’s championship-clinching game in the wash. It’s a symbolic sign that the season is well and truly over and the time for reflection is upon us.

Much has been written about this Clausura 2010 championship [...]

The Wait

So it’s Chelsea again. And Bayern Munich and Inter. And either Real Madrid or Barcelona and Rangers or Celtic. Most of the rest never win anything worth building a trophy cabinet for. So when, unexpectedly, that magic moment arrives you really have to milk it for all it’s worth.

That’s exactly what we’re doing as Argentinos [...]

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 [...]