Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was

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.

The only true religion is the grace to act right.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever-permanent ghosts stamped imprinted eternally seen.

The porcupine whom one must handle gloved may be respected but is never loved.

I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened.

Evil cannot be accommodated. It must be defeated.

Buy a man a beer, and he wastes an hour. Teach a man to brew, and he wastes a lifetime.

Whatever bliss we think we're going to find, we may find it in brief flashes, fleeting moments that come and go. There's an impossibility to nailing down any good feeling.

If the Internet has given us anything, it's some idea of how much psychosis goes undiagnosed.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.