Monday, Mar 15th 2010
Behind You!!!!
I am not having been bothered to watch the useless football match last week between Ireland and France in Paris, France, if you remember, because I was say already back then that France would definitely win and therefore there was no point in staying up so late to watch it. Anyway, I am only [...]
Glen Newey | Rectification - London Review of Books Blog
Glen Newey looks at the calls for rectifcation of Thierry Henry’s handball in France’s World Cup qualifier against Ireland last Wednesday. He says that calls for a rematch shouldn’t stop with Ireland’s claim against France. Why not go all the way back to England World Cup [...]
Thierry Henry, 32
FIFA Footballer of the Year 2010
What is Va-Va-Voom? Va-Va-Voom is doing things with style, with flair, panache, a certain je ne sais quoi. Who can say? Not me. I am not the ref.
Gillette Mach 4 Turbo: Now that’s what I call a close shave.
I do a lot of work for charity, you know. [...]
Sometimes a team needs a leader, to take a game into their hands and turn it around. For France, Henry was that man. A disorganised and unmotivated French side were harried and fraught by an under-valued Irish team, but extra time put the win up for grabs – and it was the French who reached [...]