For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.

My best girl is dead.

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.

Young men have visions, old men have dreams.