Ruinous in the sense that the game, in all its important moments, has been taken over by book-learnt, plodding, computer assisted pedantry, that is the ONLY skill that these natural-born bureaucrats bring to the game.
Tag: John Betjeman
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 8th – I don’t drink coffee, I take tea, my dear. I like my toast done on one side.
'"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: I have already got me special beer goggles on, Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Dickie White's Diary 