Entries Tagged as 'Sport'
Aspects for the week beginning 23 December 2018
Jose Mourinho Manager Jose Mourinho parted ways with football club Manchester United at 9.00 a.m. on Tuesday this week (18th) after 30 months in the job, and having just renewed his contract. He has a pattern of working with a team for about two years and then going off the boil. This may be part […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 4 November 2018
Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha Profile of a Philanthropist Week long funeral ceremonies are under way in Thailand for the owner of Leicester Football Club Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in a helicopter accident while leaving a local match at 8.30 p.m. on Saturday 27th October. He seems to have been a very special man, charitable and well loved, […]
Aspects for the week beginning 17 June 2018
Cristiano Ronaldo “Not a great fan, but boy did I enjoy Cristiano Ronaldo’s performance last night” said hubby over breakfast yesterday. I was intrigued, as the same day it was announced that Ronaldo had had to pay a huge bill for tax evasion. That was an interesting enough juxtaposition of events to attract even the […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 6 August 2017
Sports Review With the Athletics World Championships currently pushing my favourite programmes off the screen, and my unwillingness to write a sequel to “Trump’s Worst Week”, I am going to do a rare sports blog. Mo Farah Mo was one of the three heroes of the 2012 Olympics who had birthdays on 23rd March (with […]
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Aspects for the week beginning 16 April 2017
Book Review: “The Boy Who Knew Too Much” by Cathy Byrd published by Hay House, 2017 It’s a commonly accepted phenomenon in India, that children remember their past lives when very young, but still astonishing in the Western world. In one of the best documented and validated cases, mother Cathy Byrd tells a gripping tale […]
Categories: Book Review · Karmic · Medical astrology · Sport
Aspects for the week beginning 26 February 2017
Claudio Ranieri “Yesterday my dream died.” ~ Claudio Ranieri In this fast moving era of replacing football managers, the sacking of Claudio Ranieri this week as the Leicester City Football Club manager would seem a routine event. But to someone like me, who tends to have little interest in football, it is the culmination of […]
Categories: Sport
Aspects for the week beginning 21 August 2016
Laura Trott and Jason Kenny Our Golden couple at the Olympics The Olympics didn’t completely pass me by, and among the snippets which managed to present themselves to me (while passing through the hubby’s television room) was the triumph of Laura Trott (medal tally 4 golds) and Jason Kenny (medal tally 6 golds). Laura Trott […]
Aspects for the week beginning 5 July 2015
Wimbledon 2015 – Week 2 What an exciting week of tennis that was! Having looked at the top seeds last week, I am now going to look at the next rung of seeds, going into the second week. Maybe your favourite is amongst them? I hope you (the readers) will continue to be interactive, as […]
Aspects for the week beginning 28 June 2015
Wimbledon 2015 – Week 1 Here we go again! This is the fortnight where I try to keep up with the spectacle that is Wimbledon, sometimes hitting the mark and sometimes missing. But it’s great fun (for me). I am starting, as usual, with the top four men’s and women’s seeds, and thereafter will update […]
Aspects for the week beginning 31 May 2015
FIFA At the risk of a boycott, I find myself writing about Fifa and Sepp Blatter this morning! This subject has dominated the headlines since Wednesday, and I cannot ignore it. On Wednesday 14 Fifa officials were arrested on charges of corruption, and the Swiss opened investigations on the awarding of the World Cup franchise […]
Categories: Sport