Most of the work in Tom Friedman’s current show at the South London Gallery is entertaining enough without being breathtaking, or even especially exciting. Much of it consists of plays on perspective: several boxes of Cheerios spliced to form t[…]

The Cheat’s Culinary Companion #2
From “Life of Morland, the Painter”, as quoted in “Good Drinks” by Ambrose Heath (1939)
“Drinks for one day at Brighton (having nothing to do):
Hollands Gin
Rum and Milk
(before Br[…]

Faint Praise: blimey I thought those money-grabbing game-bleeders were supposed to talk up their clients? Glenn Hoddle’s agent, discussing his charge’s inexplicable link with the job of managing the French football team, says (according t[…]

Pete’s kind of right about football shirts in that they are all, pretty much, as horrible as each other. Even if some team somewhere happens on a pleasing combination of colours, the material always looks nasty. Me, I don’t wear them: I s[…]

There’s only one way to enjoy football and there’s only one sort of football that’s good. That’s if you believe David over at He Made Their Glowing Colours. Guess which sort of football he thinks is the one true path?
Accordi[…]

I went to an auction! An art auction! At a proper auction house! On Bond Street!
I’ve been getting very into several 20th Century British Printmakers for a while. This Print Sale was not the first I’ve attended, but it was the first time[…]

I am the Dutch football team of pub quizzes.
Now and again, on my fairly infrequent trips to pub quizzes, the team I’ve been playing for has tied for first place. Hurrah! What an achievement! Split the winnings! Everyone’s happy!
Not a […]

Ah, how I enjoyed it, what a beautiful game of football. I enjoyed it all the more for watching it with a couple of “this is how football should be played” merchants, defenders of the dangle, who didn’t understand how football could[…]

The second goal for Portugal was positively Manichean.[…]

I’m no great fan of Football 365: they so often seem to take the easy, laddish option. Nevertheless, I’ve been impressed with the recent series on their Mediawatch page. They’ve spotted a commentary meme, the classic “…f[…]