Ok…. aside from the referee who cannot spot whether a goal is a goal, I have nothing else to say but ‘abject’….

Not even our national cricket team beating, yet again, a 2nd rate cricket team (that’s Australia) can…

(Picture not from my village:ethnic diversity here means that you are from York)

Two weeks ago few people had heard of them round these parts.

And then the world cup began and we began to ask in this…

Last night, England v Algeria. World Cup. Oh no oh no oh no oh no……

I saw England win their last world cup in 1966 (I was a few months old and asleep. England went 3-2 up- my mum screamed…

(For my son, this is the height of humanity)

My oldest son will be 9 in August. He is considerably more able at sports than I ever was (he’s inherited his mother’s sporting genes: one of his cousins is…

It begins today: over a month of wall to wall football. A ghastly parade of hyperbole, marketing gone mad, masses of endorsed ‘official’ products (how can a group of highly trained sportsmen have for eg an ‘official beer’?), overpaid…