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Always Worth Saying’s World Cup Report

21st November 2022 Always Worth Saying 2197 Comments

What do we know about Ecuador? If you’ve visited this mountainous country that straddles the Equator as it touches the Pacific coast of South America, you’ll recall they don’t have their own currency but use [more…]

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I DON’T Love Lucy

16th November 2022 Lugosi 3661 Comments

I used to be OK at chess but reluctantly I have had to turn down commentating on the Todd Wellington (USA)  vs Sven Magnusson (Sweden)  international chess match in Wreck Yer Vick. That’s disappointing because [more…]

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Outing An Agenda

7th June 2022 Always Worth Saying 3150 Comments

I struggle to warm to Jurgen Klopp. Until a recent unseasonably chill Monday morning, I wasn’t sure why. Friends assume it’s because he is Liverpool manager. Far from it. Although the club, capped by fans [more…]

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Disaster at Munich

21st March 2022 Going Postal 3627 Comments

Another chapter from “Special Assignment” by my uncle John Alldridge (published in 1960 and now long out of print) A good reporter must be impersonal. He must write the story as he finds it, without [more…]

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Wokeball!

17th February 2022 Lugosi 3971 Comments

I declare I am the most chivalrous person you could meet. I am not misogynist in any area of life – except possibly, by a dint of a badly timed sliding tackle, when it comes [more…]

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Seventies Hard Times And Hard Men

17th August 2021 Always Worth Saying 3856 Comments

There is a shortage of lorry drivers, micro-chips and articles. Strange times that allow me permission to ramble. Put the thesaurus away. Forget about those long German words. If Shakespeare or Bernard Shaw or Oscar [more…]

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It’s all about the half time oranges!

11th August 2021 Going Postal 3424 Comments

I’ve often wondered whether there is a time in a football match that is the most likely point at which a goal might be scored.   Perhaps in the first few minutes when the goalie is [more…]

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The Revelation of St Marcus

10th December 2020 Always Worth Saying 2395 Comments

In his 7th February 1952 speech, Prime Minister Winston Churchill spoke in sorrow at the recent death of King George VI but also in optimism of the following day’s proclamation of the sovereignty of Queen [more…]

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Wendyball and BLM

7th July 2020 Lugosi 3384 Comments

I write this article as Keir Starmer says he can’t support BLM due to their Marxist/Socialist  ideas about defunding the police and Matt Le Tissier, a famous footballer and Sky TV soccer pundit questions whether [more…]

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