“Some of the Scotland players need to look themselves in the face.”

Scotland have this habit of kicking themselves in the foot.

I don’t want to stir up a can of worms.

There’s a good-feel factor about Sheffield Wednesday.

I have seen players sent off for far worse offences than that.

Belgium’s not a hotpot of international football.

Clint Dempsey scored a last-minute winner to earn Tottenham a 1-1 draw against United.

Levante have gone fourth in Serie A. If anyone can tell me what part of Italy Levante is in, please call. I’ve no idea

In the papers this morning: ‘Police closing in on Ian Holloway.’ Sorry, it’s ‘Palace closing in on Ian Holloway.’

The tackles are coming in thick and thin now.

In their last four Blackburn have lost 3-0, 3-1, 5-3 and 3-2. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out that’s 12 goals conceded

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.