There was much tear-jerking comment on an Argentine radio earlier today about the love Messi feels for Barcelona, and the sadness he feels for his friend and neighbour Luis Suarez who has been told he is surplus to requirements by new coach Ronald Koeman. Appearing on the same programme I felt compelled to introduce a touch of reality on the Messi/FC Barcelona saga. The current story involving Messi and Barcelona is one of egos, politics and greed, a less than edifying example for a world suffering dislocation, deprivation, suffering and …
Diana at 50
DIANA cumple 50. (Transalation of piece by Jimmy Burns published in El Mundo (Magazine) on the occasion of Ist July, Diana Princess of Wales’s birthday – This is not a fable but a story as real as it can be imagined about what Diana Princess of Wales might have become had her life not be cut short so tragically on that night in August 1997 in an underpass in Paris. Permit me , dear reader, some literary license in assuming that had it not been for that terrible accident, …