Manchester United are like a sleek overhyped salmon in a placid lake of sardines, while Bayern Munich and Barcelona are like wild sharks in the wide wide ocean.

Seeing that Unionists in Northern Ireland are making a really big deal about their enthusiastic embrace of democracy, one must ask what was democratic about the Plantation of Ulster?

Considering that the first commandment of God is “I am the Lord they God, thou shalt not have false gods before me”, one wonders about the sinfulness of people who regard Alex Ferguson as a God.

Vis-à-vis the James Bond films scenario, Sean Connery had more style, class and gravitas than all the other Bond actors put together.