In the Crowd review: Laurent Mauvignier’s powerful Heysel novel
At this time of year, the anniversaries come often for Liverpool fans, the games we love to remember and the ones we will never forget for completely different reasons. One date that should resonate...
View ArticleWorld Cup naysayers
The World Cup is here and isn’t it glorious? The sun shines and I manage to fit in an early morning stroll on the beach before heading home to watch three almost back-to-back football matches EACH DAY....
View ArticleHicks and Gillett, do one!
Almost three months to the day since we gathered at St George’s Hall to declare our independence from the owners of Liverpool Football Club, it looks as if the gig is finally up for these two...
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Japan: the first month
All pictures by Julia Top: an obsession is born, Roppongi Crossing sizzles in the heat, Bento Heaven Middle: downtown platform, Samurai noodles, Tokyo Tower Bottom: You walk into a bar…, Japanese...
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Well Red
Feeling a little guilty at the lack of new reading material I have been providing loyal ten minutes hate readers with lately, so instead here is a reminder to get yourself a copy of some of the finest...
View ArticleMy team is Red
‘It’s all thought out,’ Flavia said. ‘This [music] and the football stadium – they give us two places to scream and curse and stamp our feet. They’re not stupid… they’re evil. They know they have to...
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Independence Day
Liverpool fans gathered at St. George’s Hall in the city yesterday to celebrate their independence from the American owners who have loaded the football club with millions in debt while failing to...
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Schadenfreude
Alas, no time for a long post today, as I have to keep my ire in check for screaming at Lucas later. In the meantime, let’s all gather together to enjoy this: The sending-off changed the game, no doubt...
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A blog is for life…
…not just for Christmas. Right? Right. So, it is two weeks to Christmas and you are bored of work. In a short time you have to spend enforced periods with your nearest and dearest convincing them...
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Well Red magazine Issue 8
What a year it has been for Liverpool Football Club. Ditching two managers, one sometimes loved, one universally loathed. Jettisoning two feckless owners with the assistance of unlikely heroes in the...
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Colder than water
I arrived in Japan with so little experience of teaching children that I sometimes wonder if they can tell that I am learning almost as much in class as they are. Many of my students are 11 and 12...
View ArticleIndirect action
Updates to ten minutes hate have been few and far between lately, for which I am sorry, although in my defence, the situation is as yet nowhere near as bad as it was this time last year when I was...
View ArticleA song for Roy
There comes a time when you have to let the music do the talking for you: You have tried your best to please everyone But it just isn’t happening No, it just isn’t happening And it’s fucked up, fucked...
View ArticleSugar and spice
Once again, Grace Dent has written the kind of column that should have all intelligent people running around the room cheering and air-punching. I had only made it as far as this paragraph: Sotomayor...
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Gazing into the Pool of Life
‘Nothing ever lasts forever,’ sang Echo & the Bunnymen and sometimes that’s fine. Nostalgia for the recent past can stop us enjoying the moment and generate fear for the future. Let your phony...
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Justice, though the heavens fall
I was lucky, or unlucky depending on your perspective, to begin my legal training when it was considered Quite The Thing for everyone involved to know a little Latin. Quoting the correct words at the...
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Well Red magazine Issue 16
A captivating image from the incredible tribute from Everton at their match with Newcastle, which took place shortly after the publication of the report by the Hillsborough Independent Panel. It was...
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‘Cracker’, To Be a Somebody: Jimmy McGovern
For all the many words written about the Hillsborough Disaster in the last 23 years, some of the most powerful have come from the Liverpool writer and playwright Jimmy McGovern. His 1996 drama about...
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‘Bollocks – no one would have been killed!’
One of the first things to strike me on starting to read the report by the Hillsborough Independent Panel was, that although I considered myself to be knowledgeable about the causes of the disaster,...
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Hold your head up high
Everyone who knows even a little about the Hillsborough Disaster knows the name Jon-Paul Gilhooley. Whether because he was the youngest victim, aged only 10 years old, or because of his younger cousin,...
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