He had no chance of beating Schmeichel from there, but it was always worth a try.

That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game.

He hit that one like an arrow

He's passing the ball like Idi Amin.

...like a predator about to devour the target.

And Ritchie has now scored 11 goals, exactly double the number he scored last season

Liverpool are currently halfway through an unbeaten twelve-match run

He'll probably wake up having sleepless nights about that one.

There's no end to the stoppage of this drama

Lampard, as usual, arrived in the nick of time, but it wasn't quite soon enough.

2-0 is a cricket score in Italy

...evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them.

Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?

Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.

You do not play hockey for good seasons. You play to win the Stanley Cup. It has to be the objective.

Sound is not simply what we hear or play, but equally a feeling in the body

You may be a redneck if . . . you think you are an entrepreneur because of the "Dirt for Sale" sign in the front yard.

And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together.