Monthly Archives: May 2012

not quite fever pitch

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Mark Rossiter

Today is Cup Final day, Ian’s first: Chelsea v Liverpool. He is 19 days younger than I was when I watched my first, in 1971: Liverpool 1 Arsenal 2, with Steve Heighway, in flaming red, scoring from near the corner … Continue reading →

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the face I deserve

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Mark Rossiter

“By the time a man is 50 he has the face he deserves.” If you google that, it comes up that George Orwell wrote it; but nowhere does it say exactly where, chapter and verse. So was it him? Almost … Continue reading →

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