Marylebone Barber Shop.
January 16th, 2009.
Sadly, my barber friend is feeling the pinch. A few weeks ago my usual opener ‘how’s your week been?’ was met with a tentative ‘not great, but can’t complain.’ Now when I give him my usual opener the response is a touch more frank: ‘bloody awful.’ Haircuts, it would seem, are [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 15, 2009
In a rock’n'roll world, classical sports should stay classic.
The Masters of Snooker.
Wembley Arena, January 15th, 2008.
Music and sport have more things in common than you might think. Sport, like music, has different genres. Sport, like music, demands a physical and mental effort on the part of its participants. Sport, like music, moves in waves: teams, even entire competitions, can become popular or unpopular on the strength [...]
January 12, 2009
Idiot fan lights up ridiculously poor contest.
QPR 1 – 1 Coventry City
Loftus Road, January 10th, 2009.
As you’ve probably guessed from the picture, there wasn’t much to say about this match. Actually, sometimes there is nothing much to say about football. You spend your 30 quid on a ticket and sit in subzero conditions and watch. Then the match is over and you [...]
January 5, 2009
I survived an Old Firm derby and all I got was this stupid idea.
Rangers 0 – 1 Celtic
Ibrox, December 27th, 2008
Blood and thunder alone doth not a great football match make. It’s that simple. Passion is not enough to compensate for a glaring lack of quality. You can fill a stadium with as much derby rivalry (both the savoury and unsavoury varieties) as you like, but that won’t [...]
January 5, 2009
Fuckin’ beautiful, that ball-kicking game is
Arsenal 1 – 1 Liverpool
Emirates Stadium, December 21st, 2008
On the hour mark, this game got stained with hate. It actually took me surprise, how beastly football fans can be. I have never heard the word ‘cunt’ said so many times in quick succession (about a hundred times in a minute, to be precise), with so [...]
