“I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.”

Xavier, who looks just like Zeus, not that I have any idea what Zeus looks like.

As a parish priest of the Church Of England.

Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead

Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?

It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.

The language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time.

And that’s not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they’ll go to hell.

That requires that we listen to one another and get challenged and grow by living with difference within the body of the church.

John Arne Riise was deservedly blown up for that foul

It’s about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.

I don’t know where this Arctic wind has come from but it’s freezing!

The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice.

They care about their club, and that’s why they always have something good to say, even when it is negative

That has a particular history and I think we rather lost it in the 19th Century, we became so much part of empire and colonialism.

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Well, he had two stabs at the cherry

It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or by some vague creative power.

Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

Boxing is an all year round sport.

I’ve always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

I wouldn’t give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.

We’re never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.

Flying is more than a sport and more than a job