Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.
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… - Simon Barnes
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…
- Simon Barnes
Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay wher… - Simon Barnes
Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay wher…
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 … - Simon Barnes
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 …
Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it - Simon Barnes
Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it
What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the worl… - Simon Barnes
What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the worl…
If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly. - Simon Barnes
If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly.
Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world. - Simon Barnes
Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world.
Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty - Simon Barnes
Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty
The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed - Simon Barnes
The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed
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