7th March – Varsity football is rank amateur.

It's like measuring the time of a 100m sprint to the hundredth of a second, having started it with a flag.

16th Feb – Accent, you ate the positive.

It's as if Gary Lineker had sired a bastard offspring with Simon Armitage, and I had been shat out of The Poet Laureate’s breeches.

July 10th – Back home, we’ll be thinking about you, while we’re not that far away.

I am prepared to legislate to provide England with a system of 4-4-4.

May 7th – Dreams will come and they will go, when the rain washes you clean, you’ll know.

This must be how it feels to live in a totalitarian state. To be a victim of ever declining standards where there is not a single person of discernment and authority to whom you can appeal.