Nov
4
I’m addicted to football
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My name is Matthew Cain. I’m 28 years old and I am addicted to football.
There: I’ve said it. the first step to recovery. I recognised my addiction when I noticed the extent to which I had stopped enjoying games. It isn’t just recent Liverpool results.
But I’m not ready to kick it just yet. The highs – however fleeting – are still too high. I even enjoy the despair as I know it’s just a prelude to another high. And reliving previous highs is too fun to abandon the present.
Sep
27
Labour cabinet half time team talk
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Labour Party conference is the last big party meeting before the general election – half time if you will. I won’t be there. But if I could address the cabinet, this would be my message to a team that’s 3-0 down at half time.
Any coincidence with anything Rafa Benitez said at half time in Istanbul is entirely deliberate.
Aug
15
Liverpool’s premiership season gets underway tomorrow. I’m filled with more fears than I can remember in recent years, but only because my hopes are greater than ever before. My only wish for last season was to be involved in a title race: at first by Christmas and then by Easter. I got all I wanted [...]