Denn Yearwood has worked at UWIC, for a shade under two years, prior to that, it was IT consultancy at Swalec, and many others by day and vicarious rock ‘n’ roll thrills after lights out. Outside office hours, you might find him tending his asparagus, propping up a scrum, or sitting in the corner of a local hostelry supping real ale and struggling to complete yesterday’s cryptic crossword.

Right teams, wrong game

THE World Cup may have got the finalists it deserved but, for sure, we deserved a better final to crown this classic curate’s egg of a competition. We could only shrug, shoulder the sky…and drink our ale. Where we had hoped for the crisp passing and attacking guile of Iniesta and Xavi, or for the [...]

Pride of a continent

BLISS is it in this dawn to be alive, and tomorrow for the football loving fans of Amsterdam or Barcelona, once the fuzzy haze of the hangover has gone and the waking disbelief has dispersed, it will be very heaven. The World Cup came alive once the sudden death competition began. That first fortnight felt [...]

A victory once more for the old world order

WHETHER the four-year-old A.E. Housman had an opinion on the newly formed football association for association football, I don’t know, but as he said, “The house of delusions is cheap to build, but drafty to live in.” He also said, “Ale man, ale’s the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think,” so [...]