Owen scores and breaks Lineker's competitive scoring record. Although this being a friendly it doesn't actual count, so he hasn't quite done it yet.

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.

Within yourself is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

Oh, I know I'll improve. It's just that my life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes now. That's a sentence I read once, and I say it over to comfort myself in these times that try the soul.

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

I didn't feel particularly close to my father.

There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.

We look so much on color that we forget about the soul.

Days I kept busy with fractured angels' client masquerades.

The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a wonderful piece of work.