Arsene Wenger has got to unlock the purse strings

For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip.

Northern Ireland are ten minutes away from their finest victory. There's 15 minutes to go here.

In a sense it's a one-man show... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper.

Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves.

The Czech Republic are coming from behind in more than one way now.

The World Cup is a truly international event.

Nearly all the Brazilian supporters are wearing yellow shirts - it's a fabulous kaleidoscope of colour.

The unexpected is always likely to happen.

Gary Lineker has now scored 37 goals. That is precisely twice as many as last year.

The game is balanced in Arsenal's favour.

I keep in too many of the words I need to let out. And then I let out too many of the words I need to keep in.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

Three life lessons: 1.No one will see you. 2.No one will say anything. 3.No one will save you.

I find that the creative side of my brain and the archival side of my brain don't work well together. When I've done my best work, I've been in a trance-like state.

Sweet,” he whispered, and stole a kiss from her lips. “Sweet… let me stay with you a little longer.” -Jack to Amanda

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

I think I came here as a priest... The priest is more concerned with heresy than with sin; sins can be forgiven; heresy must be eliminated.

As a kid I was always a bit of a clown, a performer.

A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.