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F.I.F.A. World Cup 2014: Mexico V Cameroon. Match Report.

Originally published by Ace Magazine online June 2014.

Unless something unimaginable happens, Brazil will qualify out of Group A with room to spare. On the basis of the first round of matches to be played, Brazil will qualify; but they won’t have made any friends outside of the confines of the homes, cities, towns and minds of the Brazilian nation. Mexico on the other hand, you can but hope make it at least into the round of 16 for their dogged determination and utter refusal to sink to the depths that they saw happen in the previous day’s game.

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2014 World Cup: Brazil V Croatia, Match Report.

First published by Ace Magazine online, June 2014.

One game in of this 2014 World Cup and already there will be cynics of F.I.F.A. who might teasingly suggest that the straight line drawn by the Japanese official to mark out the 10 yards for Croatia to stand behind for a free kick was one of the very few acts in the game that didn’t have the whiff of something crooked about it.

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All Time England World Cup Squad: 1982-2010.

Originally published by Ace Magazine Liverpool June 2014.

 

When supporting England, the feeling between despondency and elation is sometimes so blurred that you can go from one World Cup competition having crashed out in the second round (1982) but feeling optimistic about the future to then getting so close that the air of expectation hangs round every football fan you meet like a bad smell in summer time (1990). There never has been a real mix of consistency, no real so called Golden Generation, except for what the Fleet Street media like to impose upon the thoughts of the fans that for years have doggedly followed the national team exploits (or lack of them).

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World Cup Memories (1982).

First published by Ace Magazine on-line. May 2014.

It was all about England having qualified for the World Cup for the first time since I had started following football with passion in 1976 that led me to watching nearly every match in the 1982 tournament with a grin and in equal measure, painful despair, etched all over my face.

I remember fragments of the World Cup in Argentina, however by and large the 1978 World Cup was something that by-passed me in much the same way as every other lad in my year at school developing a love of cars and engines, I knew it existed, but I had other past-times to pre-occupy me.

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Andrew Lancel To Be Part Of Brian Epstein Blue Plaque Unveiling.

Television and stage actor Andrew Lancel, who is set to play Brian Epstein in Epstein: The Man Who Made the Beatles, in London’s West End this summer, has been confirmed as one of the celebrity names who will unveil a commemorative Heritage Foundation Blue Plaque at the London offices of Epstein’s company NEMS on Sunday 29th June.

Andrew Lancel (Coronation Street and The Bill) says he is honoured to be asked to be a part of the special unveiling ceremony which will take place at Sutherland House, adjacent to the London Palladium, where NEMS occupied offices in the building from the height of Beatlemania in 1964 until shortly after Brian’s tragic death in 1967.

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Doctor Chris Williams And Actor Owen Teale Bring Under Milk Wood To Life At Waterstones.

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Time passes…Sitting back in a chair inside Waterstones on a Tuesday afternoon and listening to an expert from the University of Liverpool and one of the finest Welsh actors talk of Dylan Thomas’ seminal Under Milk Wood, it is possible to contemplate on what the townsfolk of Llareggub may have thought of all the adulation being bestowed upon a man who created them in this the 100th anniversary of the poet, writer, thinker and pondering wordsmith’s birth.

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Gemma Bodinetz And Deborah Aydon To Recieve Honour From Liverpool John Moores University.

Everyman and Playhouse Artistic Director Gemma Bodinetz and Executive Director Deborah Aydon will receive Honorary Fellowships from Liverpool John Moores University this summer in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the dramatic arts. Also receiving an Honorary Fellowships is Everyman and Playhouse board member Rod Holmes.

Ms. Bodinetz and Ms. Aydon took charge of Liverpool’s Everyman and Playhouse Theatres in 2003. In that time they have produced 107 plays, creating work that is embedded in its community, such as The Cruel Sea, alongside productions that have enhanced the company’s reputation nationally and internationally such as the world tour of The Caretaker, the return to the city of established stars including Pete Postlethwaite, David Morrissey and Kim Cattrall, while establishing Young Everyman Playhouse which will inspire the next generation of theatre makers.

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Liverpool Legend Ian McNabb Launches His Own Open Mic Night in Liverpool.

Ian Mcnabb is one of the great singer/songwriters to emerge from the 80’s Liverpool music scene. The founder and lead singer with chart toppers The Icicle Works, will be launching his very own ‘Open Mic’ night at Mathew Street Live on Mathew Street, Liverpool (above Eric’s) starting on Wednesday 7th May from 9pm – 1am. Entry is free.

“I’m pleased to report that I will be hosting a singer-songwriter night every Wednesday upstairs from Eric’s club starting next month. I hope to see as many of you there as possible. Come and play your music!” says Ian Mcnabb.

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No More Heroes…A Thank You To The Stranglers For 40 Years of Music.

For forty years The Stranglers have been a part of the British way of life, a group of musicians who raised a fantastic two fingers up to anyone who doubted their ability, who threw scorn upon them from every angle and who perhaps may have suggested that the band were no better than the groups around them who would perhaps disintegrate quicker than cheap soap in a washtub.

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Crowdfunding: The Future Of Our Music Industry?!

Over the past decade or so, music fans and artists alike have found themselves lamenting on the decline of the music industry. With new technologies developing all the time, it is now cheaper and easier for our consumerist society to access music – for free – anytime, anywhere. On the one hand, this modern lifestyle invariably means that more musicians have a much broader fan base. However, on the other hand, it is becoming an increasingly less profitable endeavour to be in a band and the argument remains that this is putting a lot of talented people off.

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