The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.

Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.

We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world

It is a truism that no row is ever about what it is about.

Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty

The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.

There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world."