Thank God for the Truthers

Doing my customary Google search concerning the meaning of some controversial term, I found that a “truther” is “a person who doubts the generally accepted account of an event, believing that an official conspiracy exists to conceal the true explanation; a conspiracy theorist”, although I question if conspiracy is official.

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Crystal Palace win the FA Cup and the beautiful game

Yesterday, I watched from my computer some of the BBC coverage of the English men’s FA Cup final played between Crystal Palace and Manchester City but, before sharing my thoughts on the game, I want to give a brief account of the history of my life time love affair with the beautiful game that most of the world refer to as football.

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