Through Your Legs: May 2010

With One Bound, He's Free

Welcome to the cousin of Suspend Your Disbelief.He's a nice bloke, wants to be a footballer and is having trials with Brentford.He's got a Beckham-bogbrush haircut and has just learned to drive. He wears those nasty plastic bananas on his feet that some people call football boots....

James Hunt. Jacques Laffite. Jody Sheckter. Nikki Lauder. Patrick Depaillet. Jochen Mass. Gilles Villenueuve. Clay Regazzoni. Carlos Reutermann. Riccardo Pattrese.Watkins Glen. Monte Carlo. Brands Hatch. Monza. Interlagos. Paul Ricard. Nurburgring. Spa.Being a racing driver in the...

My dad tells me that my love of football began at the age of 3, when in an act which would nowadays be construed as child cruelty, he plonked me down in front of the old bakelite telly to watch the 1966 cup final between Sheffield Wednesday and Everton. (Don't need to identify it...

This evening, in a miasma of boredom, I find myself watching the above match on the telly. It's a critical game, and victory will result in the winner going to Wembley for the Division 2 Play Off Final (Division 4 in pre-Sky TV old money.) The winner will get the chance, Quixote-style,...

Today, I received a wonderful present.My friend Craig surprised and delighted me when he delivered impromptu a whole set of Manchester City football cards, which his son had collected. They were surplus to his requirements, but I didn’t care – the very feel and smell of them transported...

1974. How was a pubescent boy from the north of England going to discover romance in life?Answer: Miss McDermott.Miss McDermott was one of the 3 most beautiful women on the planet in 1974. All my mates had a crush. Pondy wanted her. Shorey wanted her. Vaughny wanted her. But they...

The Rec' was a muddy football pitch, replete with cowpats and broken bottles; later to have the addition of a swing, that was where we hung out as kids.It was the place I learned to french kiss with Julie Garton; the scene of my first proper appearance in a football team (managed,...

June 1973. I am 11 years old and about to leave primary school for secondary school: a whole new world of violence, Shangalang and kung fu stars.Ian Vaughan - Vaughny - is in his omnipotent pomp: soon to graduate to the position of King of secondary school reserved for him by his...

Cityitis - the law of if it can go wrong it will go wrong in the world of Manchester City Football Club.At around lunchtime today, an hour before the Manchester derby was due to begin, I contacted a friend (United supporter - from Nottingham, natch).My text: stick on united win,...

'Boxing fans, hide the children' was the ring announcer's introduction to Mike Tysons' s 12th fight against the 6'6" Eddie Richardson. He put him on the floor with his first punch.At this point in his career, Tyson was irresistible, pure and true. He'd put down his 10th opponent,...

I have just watched someone die.Funny to think of it, but this was the moment that Muhammad Ali took the first step towards death.He was fighting Joe Frazier, his nemesis, his absolute apotheosis, in one of the three major bouts they had - bouts that not only defined the 70's: they...

In 1964, Cassius Clay beat Sonny Liston.Didn't just beat him, annihilated him. He was 22. I was 2.After the fight, there was bedlam in the ring. Liston was the meanest mofo on the planet, a really, really unpleasant individual from ghetto roots and determined to adminster ghetto...

This is the view from my seat at the City of Manchester Stadium - home, if you don't know, to Manchester City Football Club.This seat is my property. I live here. And I will die here. This seat will be my viewpoint on triumph, tragedy and disaster. And long after I have gone, this...

I wouldn't say that golf has become more important to me than sex or money, but there are times when it comes very close. Look, Hemingway managed to make bullfighting interesting to the uninitiated so, as the saying goes, suspend your disbelief.Golf at its best is a duel with the...

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