In *This* Own Write

  (from Kicker magazine's Premier League supplement, September 18 2023) Fan culture in England was once considered mythical, but commerc...

“It’s been a long, long, long time” (obligatory Beatles reference out of the way early), but sad to say today finally marks the end here - ...

The Moby Dick of celebrity scoops here, that man Macca, has unfortunately remained out of reach - but many years at Metro have involved pitc...

Syrian families are still desperately digging in earthquake rubble - not for survivors anymore, but any last possessions finally lost after ...

Desperate pleas have been made to help hundreds of thousands of people left homeless after the devastating earthquake battering Turkey and S...

Harry Kane holds many records, including setting some in the Champions League - yet his long wait to hoist a trophy aloft goes on. He was th...

Queen Elizabeth II has been laid to rest and reunited with her beloved husband Prince Philip after a day of tears, cheers and pageantry sayi...

“Chasing tomorrow - get ready to run...” / “On the day that I die, I’d like jokes to be told And stories of old to be rolled out like carpet...

Words from my mum on her mum, January 16 2020: REMEMBERING RENE It was 25 years ago today … that we said a sudden and far too early goo...

"In our winter city, the rain cries a little pity..." Thousands of volunteers are gearing up to provide food, warmth and wha...

(Past pieces here from Sierra Leone: http://aidanrad.blogspot.com/2008/12/sierra-leone-in-september.html https://metro.co.uk/2012/04/...

Some words from my mum on her late uncle and my great-uncle Reginald Brownhill, proud former Para and brave D-Day veteran... My dear ...

A D-Day veteran who feared he would not survive a night of bombardment after landing on a Normandy beach is among those returning across t...

“This type of emotion - without football, I think it’s impossible to live...” “And in the middle of the celebrations, I break down....

( Kicker  magazine, Monday 08 April 2019) For some it's been 18 months in the waiting, or for others 18 years in the making. B...

A Rohingya refugee gang-raped by soldiers before seeing her family slaughtered and burnt to death in front of her never wants to return...