With Israel’s campaign of genocide in Gaza now into its fifth month I find it absolutely staggering that its name went into the draw yesterday (8 February) for the 2024-25 Uefa Nations League, which did not contain the name of Russia because of its phoney stage-managed conflict with Ukraine. Please explain why there is no…
You know how it is sometimes, when you wake up from a dream and there’s this earworm wiggling around in your brain? Well, since last Saturday’s humanitarian crusade in Cardiff in solidarity with the people of Gaza suffering mercilessly at the hands of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), I’ve had a slightly modified snippet of…
With just two more days to follow in January, almost a twelfth of 2024 has already passed… but, after 114 days of continuous bombing, Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza shows no sign of abating, despite last Friday’s United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in Jerusalem has just one month…
The oldest player ever to win the Fifa World Cup turns 79 today, but surprisingly it’s almost 40 years ago that he achieved that status. At the 1982 World Cup in Spain goalkeeper Dino Zoff captained Italy to victory in the tournament at the age of 40 years, four months and 13 days… but to…
