Amazingly, this blog has reached the age of six years old. Every anniversary I’ve taken the time to indulge a short reflective post about how stunned I am that the blog has endured this long. In one of my very first posts – back in the year of 2018 – I outlined how I had […]
The following is an article that I wrote for an online educational site. It is based on research I undertook during my teacher training course, and during this academic year I have started to reflect more heavily on that course (perhaps due to the impact of Covid on teaching and learning). This website – Dave […]
The football competition Euro 2020 – still branded as 2020 despite the fact that it took place in 2021 – was one filled with drama on and off the pitch. I applauded England’s efforts as they made their way to the final, but they remained a penalty kick away from putting their hands on the […]
Many people have their vices and their habits: drugs, drink, video-games, prostitutes, or many different other things. Mine, it seems, is the MCU. For the uninitiated, the MCU stands for Marvel Cinematic Universe, and comprises the twenty-plus films released over the past decade of various super-heroes. These include Iron-Man, Captain America, the Hulk, the Guardians […]
The modern-day European Champions League is one filled with glitz and glamour and big bucks, but its earlier incarnation – the European Cup – was a much more humble affair. This is especially true of its very early days before the monopolisation of super teams, when clubs went into the unknown and forged history for […]
What with the World Cup raging away I couldn’t resist the temptation to delve into a little research on a football related topic. The 2018 UEFA Champions League final – to give it the full title – was held in May between Liverpool of England and Real Madrid of Spain. Both of them are aristocratic names of […]
