But my hands were at that point lifting themselves away from the keyboard in shame and dropping slowly into my lap, where they remained for the next three minutes.And then, completely without warning, we were into “Every Breath You Take”. But then something terrible happened: Kenny Kirkland took a solo.It was during “Nothing ’bout Me”. [...]

But while the cover of the New Yorker boasts of “The Roseanne Eruption”, all the talk of catastrophe, complete with long-time staff-writers fleeing the lower slopes (Jamaica Kincaid among them), turns out to be a false alarm. For many readers, Roseanne was the bale that broke the camel’s back. Many people took the view that [...]

I could not see Tony Yeboah being dropped for me.”So it was off to Coventry, the club that nearly broke Whelan’s heart when, as a 12-year-old at Hillsborough, he watched them defeat Leeds in the 1987 FA Cup semi-final.”Had it been a First Division club I do not think I would have gone. But it [...]

Like how many international caps he has…?” was the gist of the questioning.Newcastle’s supporters and the club, 69 years after they last won the championship, are into the realms of the unknown We may be better informed by five o’ clock this afternoon.. “Could they, by any chance, tell them anything about Asprilla. On the [...]

His face appears on hoardings in every city, and fills the television screen in the commercial breaks. People are proud, not jealous, of how brilliant and wealthy he is. In certain English circles it is possible that Gatting and Emburey, say, have a certain cachet, but glamour? Pull the other one.Either way, the nation – [...]