Archive for June, 2010

Precarious Present, Glorious Past … Meet the Mighty West Indies

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Today really is a bittersweet day for any West Indian cricket fan. Whilst the current side has completed a 2-0 series defeat against South Africa in pretty abject fashion, the date of June 29 will always be special for West Indian cricket. It marks a particularly special ‘Golden Jubilee’, in so much ...

Not Your Everyday Dad …

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

As I mentioned back in March, mums are so often the focal point of any family, the glue that binds it together. However, not that I suspect that he was a huge fan of Marvin Gaye, my biology teacher once told me that “It Takes Two”. I also suspect that ...

Dare to Dream

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Walter Elias Disney will be remembered long after all of us have departed. He will of course be remembered for the iconic cast of characters that has adorned the lives of children for generation upon generation. Disney has that rarest of legacies that transposes dream and fantasy with gross commercialism. But ...

Amathamsanqa South Africa!!

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

I have lived and breathed sport probably before I could walk, probably a result of being born the son of a man who played for, in the opinion of many, the greatest cricketing side to walk the face of the earth. My dearest mother, as with most proud matriarchs, is always happy ...

A Question or Two for Martin Broughton

Monday, June 7th, 2010

So this is the new Liverpool Way where the fans get to know what the club's chairman thinks about the future of a player through comments he made at a rival club's end of season do. In reality, there isn't really anything particularly revealing in Martin Broughton's reported comments that he ...

In Our Small Special World … Ubuntu

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Now that was a weekend to savour! They say that you find out who your friends are in times of crisis. I have to say that I have been blown away by the number of people persistently knocking on the door … and even when I don’t answer, they keep ...

Get Him to that Church on Time

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Am safely arrived in Manchester and booked into the gorgeous Marriott Worsley Park Hotel & Country Club. Tomorrow will be the highlight of an emotional and highly contemplative week, which will conclude with the marriage of two very special friends, Dilshan and Jayne. I have already this week turned a corner, ...