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

Scotland have this habit of kicking themselves in the foot.

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

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

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

Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn

When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. … A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.

Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!

It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.

But to stir up the gift and allow God’s Spirit to disturb us and disturb us and disturb us until we yield and yield and yield and the possibility in God’s mind for us becomes an established fact in our lives, with the rivers in evidence meeting the need of a dying world.

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.