…Today is a day I never wanted to see. I am absolutely heartbroken to hear of the passing of Kevin Keegan. Kevin wasn’t just a football manager to me—he was the man who introduced me to the Premier League and made me fall in love with the beautiful city of Newcastle…
England v Croatia is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries have a UNESCO World Heritage Site named after a Roman emperor.
England has Hadrian’s Wall. Croatia has Diocletian’s Palace in Split.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography(ish)-based World Cup analysis.
The novelist Kurt Vonnegut wrote in 2005 that Susan Sontag said this when asked about the Holocaust: “10 per cent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 per cent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 per cent can be moved in either direction.”
The only 3 people to benefit from Brexit were.
Johnson - got to be prime minister
Farage - got himself a cult following
Putin - got himself a weaker UK and Europe.
The rest of us just got poorer, more divided, less rights and for some very angry at the world.