Monthly Archives: March 2017

El ejemplo de Churchill

Posted on March 23, 2017 in the Misc category

A pocos pasos del terrorismo que ayer sacudió la ciudad de Londres esta una estatua de Winston Churchill,  corpulento en su abrigo de trinchera,  y con una mirada  enfocada y resuelta, toda una imagen de un pueblo que ha conocido  y sobrevivido, con orgullo  y victorioso , momentos  más amenazadores de  su historia. En el momento que el terrorista empezó su paseo endemoniado a través de Westminster  Bridge, camino del Parlamento, me encontraba a cuatro cuadras después de haber almorzado en mi club cerca de Trafalgar Square con un amigo …

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Miracle in the Nou Camp

Posted on March 9, 2017 in the Blog, Misc category

  It was the kind of night when the Virgin of Montserrat, San Jordi,  Messi’s granny and the spirit of Catalan pride past , present and future converged on the Camp Nou. Asked before the match how he saw his team’s chances of making up the 0-4 goal deficit against PSG, Neymar  rated it at one per cent, while Luis Enrique said, “If they can score four, we can score six.” As it turned out Neymar proved one of the team’s  defining players, and Luis Enrique it’s most unexpected disciple …

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Warsaw Diary

Posted on March 3, 2017 in the Blog, Football, Football Writing category

      There was a long queue at passport control at Warsaw’s Chopin airport  on arrival from London. ‘Never happened before’ said a young polish lady. I and another British national   looked at each other with the thought passing through our minds- is Brexit already with us? It turned out there were a couple of police officers who had turned up late for their shift and in the end we all swept through the EU lane relatively smoothly- but for a few minutes it  did make one think, how …

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