Defoe was level and anyone who says otherwise is picking hairs

Arsene Wenger has got to unlock the purse strings

For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip.

Northern Ireland are ten minutes away from their finest victory. There's 15 minutes to go here.

In a sense it's a one-man show... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper.

Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves.

The Czech Republic are coming from behind in more than one way now.

The World Cup is a truly international event.

Nearly all the Brazilian supporters are wearing yellow shirts - it's a fabulous kaleidoscope of colour.

The unexpected is always likely to happen.

Gary Lineker has now scored 37 goals. That is precisely twice as many as last year.

And here face down beneath the sunAnd here upon earth's noonward heightTo feel the always coming onThe always rising of the night

Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

Let love write on you for awhile.

It is our duty to try to be perfect, … to improve each day, and look upon our course last week and do things better this week; do things better today than we did them yesterday

Dead metaphors make strong idols.

TV has a lot of problems, but I think the Internet and social media have a lot more. Under the cover of anonymity people say the most vicious things.

The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.

It was always acting for me, since I was about 15. My middle brother always wanted to be a news anchor, so we always felt that he'd be the one to take over for dad, so we could go and do our thing.

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.