Eclectic Blue

Here comes a European Super League and this is why we should just let it happen

by Rick Johansen | Oct 21, 2020 | Eclectic Blue | 0 |

I was interested to read the response of the Football Supporters Association statement on the...

José Padilla

by Rick Johansen | Oct 20, 2020 | Eclectic Blue | 0 |

In 2003, my partner and I packed off our young children to the hotel evening kids club while we...

Keep your distance

by Rick Johansen | Oct 19, 2020 | Eclectic Blue | 0 |

I had a run-in with a fellow customer at Morrison’s this morning. My nerves, already frayed by the corrosive effects of depression, anxiety and lately insomnia, simply broke loose as a middle aged man stood about two feet...

Temptation

by Rick Johansen | Oct 18, 2020 | Eclectic Blue | 0 |

So far, I am successfully avoiding the temptation to order from BT Sport Box Office today’s...

Tiers of a clown

by Rick Johansen | Oct 17, 2020 | Eclectic Blue | 0 |

For those of us who do not believe that COVID-19 is a hoax, that it’s no worse than influenza, that it will soon miraculously disappear and that it is treatable, these can be trying times. Since the virus arrived in the...

The Friday Music Shuffle (16.10.20)

by Rick Johansen | Oct 16, 2020 | Eclectic Blue | 0 |

In the bleak midwinter, which in my book happens between September and February (inclusive), I...

Ukip – the filthy dregs of society

by Rick Johansen | May 4, 2015 | Eclectic Blue | 5 |

I arrive home from an afternoon out to find two leaflets have been delivered on behalf of the UK Independence Party. Two hugely unwanted leaflets. Let us be clear about one thing: Ukip is filling the void left by the National...