Come friendly bombs and fall on St George’s Park! It isn’t fit for humans now – the case for half-penalties.

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.

Mar 25th – Little things I should have said and done, I just never took the time.

‘Have you ever considered that perhaps you used up your life’s ration of good luck within its first twenty-four hours?’