Nothing quite like reading other AWers’ problems or turning to the international pages of the daily papers to show you how insignificant your own issues really are. While having survived for a decade after m […]

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Can’t argue with what you’re saying, B. but at this stage, what else can journos like Ronay and Samuels do apart from draw attention to FIFA’s latest shameless money grab? Ultimately, if respected writers like […]

He’s a journalist and will surely argue that his going to, and reporting from, Saudi will draw attention to the country’s appalling human rights and climate change records. Martin Samuel’s piece in today […]

OP should have read “one of the biggest and more culpable dupes”

Brilliant skewering of Infantino et al by Barney Ronay in the Graun

Sorry, I appear to have wandered into the Gregg Wallace thread by mistake

I’ve already written to Thomas Tuchel to inform him of my unavailability for any future England squads but have yet to hear back

One thought per sentence is generally a good rule of thumb

Took your querying of “ours” in your second and now third question as meaning you were less than enthused by the west’s reliance on OGitMEs. My pointing out my use of quotation marks around the term was to make […]

As good a definition of “Our guy(s) in the Middle East” as you are ever likely to find

Jeez, @Dai, that’s awful. Would never have asked you to take time to do me a favour over the weekend – which you very kindly did – had I known.

And here he is

Amazingly, someone has posted a video of FP on YT Up there with Victor “I bought the company” Kyam and Bernard “Bootiful” Matthews as one of the great self-made ad presenters

Note the inverted commas

Because it’s always a guy in the Middle East

Cheers for looking

I remember a time when Fred Pontin used to run TV commercials shilling summer holidays at 3:00 pm on Xmas day