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Us human beings are suckers when it comes to dealing with death and other such deep, dark places. Denial is usually our favourite companion during such times. It helps us live under an illusion of comfort, not allowing the feeling ...

  This is the grandest of stages. This is Lucas, Spielberg and Cameron rolled into one. This is Hollywood’s granddad. Forget the Milan derby. Forget the El Clasico. And dare I say, forget the Champions League final. On Tuesday, the ...

Due to reasons non-technical and inexplicable, the couch hooligan was forced to budge from his abode and drag his large posterior across state borders. After the hesitant journey, the hooligan is back on the couch. The crap flinging is about ...

  I am Neo I wish Morpheus was at the Emirates stadium when Michael Laudrup’s super stylish Swansea side took on the apparently super-stylish Arsenal. The reason is that I believe the football scouts at Swansea are sharper than the ...

  The Celibate Spaniard Forget Rafa Benitez, today’s Torres could walk into a ‘Girls Gone Wild’ party with a bag full of the date rape drug and still walk out without scoring. That is the kind of form the ‘once-prolific-under-the-very-same-manager’ ...

Dressing Down What is it with Premier League players and their refusal to wear things as a sign of protest? Rio Ferdinand incurred the wrath of Sir Alex a few weeks earlier by not wearing the ‘kick racism out of ...

* – “I can deal with sick chants – I just block them out,” insists Wenger. We all know how he suffers from selective blindess, never seeing any of his players committing fouls during matches. Well, I guess he has ...

  A Game of Two Cards This should shut every bugger up out there who claims that United keep getting favoured by referees at Old Trafford. Well, there you go. They get sympathy from the man in the middle even ...

  Cometh the man, cometh Doomsday? World is definitely coming to an end this December. Not because the Mayans said it would, but because Stewart Downing scored for the first time since his much maligned move to Anfield. And that ...

  Hazard Zone Even if he were not a footballer, Eden Hazard would still be getting laid on a regular basis. Thanks to the coolest name in Belgium. Well, thanks to the coolest name in Europe. Had to stop at ...