I have to confess I am worried. We played well up to 65 minutes and then there was that extraordinary read more

I have to confess I am worried. We played well up to 65 minutes and then there was that extraordinary blow which threw us off-balance.

They got a good hockey team over there and they battle hard every night. It's nice to get an extra read more

They got a good hockey team over there and they battle hard every night. It's nice to get an extra point on them.

It is our imagination that transforms itself into reality, through our physical strength and endeavours.

It is our imagination that transforms itself into reality, through our physical strength and endeavours.

There is no way to shut Michelle down completely. I've never seen a team take her totally out of a read more

There is no way to shut Michelle down completely. I've never seen a team take her totally out of a game.

an unmistakable confirmation that there is in this country the emergence of a new political culture.

an unmistakable confirmation that there is in this country the emergence of a new political culture.

I think the key word here was persistency. We just kept putting pressure on them, believed in our system and read more

I think the key word here was persistency. We just kept putting pressure on them, believed in our system and sooner or later, we would get the breaks to win the game.

These series events are great preparation for the race. It's good to see who's riding fast and who's riding strategically read more

These series events are great preparation for the race. It's good to see who's riding fast and who's riding strategically well.

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the read more

[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the internet and the subsequent flowering of genealogical research. This obsession with roots will be felt especially keenly by foundlings, who often have no way of exploring their family histories.] I notice that genealogical sites now have warnings on them saying people should be ready for little surprises, ... They're not all going to find themselves descended from King Henry VIII or Richard Cur de Lion or Wellington. This is rather strange because it was pretty taken for granted a few generations ago that families had all kinds of little moments where things had gone not according to the book. It was just one of those things. You tried to accommodate it. There was no social welfare. You just had to sort it out within villages, the families, the parish. Children went to the workhouse, but people knew about it. Nowadays, there's a kind of surprise that these cases were so commonplace.