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David Lacey works from Hastings / London. Fundraising Consultant. Head of Fundraising and Communications @BuildAfrica. Chair of DMIFG. Fellow of IDM. Former @actionaiduk @bloodwise_uk @battersea_ & more David Lacey has over 506 followers on Twitter.
Ferguson cannot go on forever and the fact that his birthday coincided with the end of another year somehow increases its significance.
Christmas can often be a cruel time for managers and the January transfer window has merely exacerbated the fact.
On a murky November afternoon in 1953 Ferenc Puskas, who died in Budapest last Friday aged 79, helped to rouse English football from a complacency born of insularity and…
One of Europe’s leading referees, the Swede Anders Frisk, has been forced into early retirement in the aftermath of what Jose Mourinho said after Chelsea lost 2-1 to Barcelona at…
In football, messiahs should never reach middle age. Far better that they suffer martyrdom young or fall under a bus before their 40s. Otherwise they become mere mortals. This is…
Dying from a brain tumour is a rotten way for anyone to go. For a professional sports person, it is a particularly unkind exit. For Emlyn Hughes, it was the lousiest trick of…
No sooner had Arsenal first equalled and then broken Nottingham Forest’s 26-year-old record of going 42 league matches without defeat, than doubts were being expressed about the…
The career of Diego Maradona will always be remembered for its extremes. He was blessed or he was cursed; there were no in-betweens. For the world at large he was the genius who…
An old Bill Tidy cartoon still raises a smile. The Oxfam truck has arrived in a scorched African desert carrying a load of red-and-white scarves. “I see Arsenal lost again,”…
