Coming out of the previous argument on the efficacy of football managers, comes a nice little podcast from the University of Warwick on changes made in managerial practice. That is all dinky and possibly not as significant as Dr Sue Bridgewater think[…]

For some time I had heard rumour of Channel Four dipping their toes back into the Breakfast TV market. I had even been telling people about it happening without realising IT HAD ALREADY STARTED. And my general prediction about it was correct. Morning[…]

during the who’s-most-famous competition, the GG, in a huff bcz barrymore and rodman merely ASSUMED top slot wz between them, muttered: “If it’s worldwide, I’m the most famous. Virtually every Muslim in the world, which is one[…]

In Lower City a prostitute ends up hanging out with these two dudes (they are dudes). They both take it in turns to have sex with her in a casual way. And this goes on until…
The odd thing about Lower City is the pounding sense of inevitability[…]

…The story so far. Once upon a time there were some pubs in London which did not do the same beers as everywhere else. People scoffed, but we tried out the Happy Shopper lagers on offer and became quite enamored of the cooking lager: Ayingerbra[…]

Indonesia. Probably a really nice place. Probably full of great food, native culture that does not involve rhythm’s or instruments and great folk tales. That’s what I thought when I woke up, before toying with getting a ticket to Japan (t[…]

A recent survey showed that when children are asked to draw a scientist they consistently draw a figure “with wild hair, lab coat, staring eyes, coke-bottle glasses, a withered hand; in some cases they’ve even written the word “MAD&[…]

More on the LRB/Runciman/Mourinho debate!
1. What Runciman misses out is the connection – especially long-term – between discrete results in football. This may well be subject to other statistical laws – or maybe there are other sci[…]

I thought the article that Mark refers to by David Runciman’s in the LRB was a necessary corrective to the myth of the manager he rightly takes to task. It’s analogous to the concept of the super-CEO.
Both make too much play of the effect[…]

Before the hordes arrive talking about Life On Mars (aka Goodnight Sweeneyheart) I caught the first episode of the new series of Without A Trace last night. What a misnomer that title is: every week there is a trace, THAT IS THE POINT, THAT IS HOW TH[…]