If feathers don't ruffle, nothing flies.
I enjoyed seven years at Wimbledon and there were high and low points.
I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend.
It will be difficult to let go but it is going to happen sooner rather than later in my case.
I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.
Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn't do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me.
I wouldn't even mention myself in the same breath as someone like big Paul.
Give me silence, water, hope Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.
The ones that make it complicated never get congratulated
Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges. but I was in a little better physical shape every day, I was getting my looks back, and my spirits were rising, and this was all in all a happy time for me. All these weirdos, and me getting a little better right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.
Lest we forget at least an over the shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins - or which is which), the very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer.