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Four pies, four years, four goals
Four years ago today, the greatest match ever played*. In many ways, that it was the greatest match - that it was football - isn’t crucial. Before the…
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You Know I Feel Alright
I have only been to Liverpool a handful of times, yet when I step off the train, clock the big clock, and walk out on to the high, wide steps with…
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Click
In picking up the radio my thumb rested on the ribbed volume dial and clicked it from off. A tinny wall of static scratched out of the speaker. I…
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One foot in front of the other
Just before the years changed over, I walked some of the coast near where I live. It reminded me of having done so a few years ago. I wrote about it…
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Wilko
'I am a feather for each wind that blows'
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Something For The Weekend 3
Ten years ago this week - back in the days of cold autumns - I was sat in front of a roaring fire sipping a very fine whisky and watching the match…
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2015: The Rearview Mirror
“Hello, Mark isn’t it. Please, take a seat.” “Thank you.” “How can I help?”
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