To know you are among people whom you love, and who love you – that has made all the successes wonderful, much more wonderful than they'd have been anyway.
I'm not going to single individuals out but Yakubu has missed loads of great chances
John Cross is feeling very boyish about Arsenal's chances
Belgium's not a hotpot of international football
I don't want to stir up a can of worms.
Some of the Scotland players need to look themselves in the face.
Some players need a boot up their backside. Other players need the arm
It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.
It would be unforgivable to use the role I have, such as it is, to inflict my incoherent, half-baked view of the world on people. That would be illegitimate and unacceptable and I should be fired.
Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.
A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.