This article is from Edition Nine of The Cynical, our free online magazine. Download the magazine here: ePub version (great for smart phone readers) PDF version In the mountains between Rome and Naples is the Valle Di Comino, a stunning valley green valley filled with vineyards and farms. The village of Settefrati is in…
This article is from Edition Nine of The Cynical, our free online magazine. Download the magazine here: ePub version (great for smart phone readers) PDF version ‘The players realise that they have to do this. And they can either hide and not put themselves out there, or you can be brave and do it….
This article is from Edition Nine of The Cynical, our free online magazine. Download the magazine here: ePub version (great for smart phone readers) PDF version I remember the morning after very well: a steamy cup of tea warming my stunned face as I pondered a depressing political and cultural impasse; a near-masochistic decision…
This article is from Edition Nine of The Cynical, our free online magazine. Download the magazine here: ePub version (great for smart phone readers) PDF version My relationship with football is wittering, a death by a thousand cuts break-up, sponsored by Gazprom. There are so many facets of your life that change as you…
This article is from Edition Nine of The Cynical, our free online magazine. Download the magazine here: ePub version (great for smart phone readers) PDF version ‘What is a rebel? A man who says no’, wrote philosopher and accomplished goalkeeper Albert Camus. The sport Camus loved has become a game of men who say…
This article is from Edition Nine of The Cynical, our free online magazine. Download the magazine here: ePub version (great for smart phone readers) PDF version For the past four years my Saturdays between September and May have been given over to football. Since being brought out of semi-retirement by my mate and manager,…
The small village of Copmanthorpe – affectionately known as Cop – is located just outside York and consists of two pubs, a Co-op and some of the finest manicured lawns in all of England. At the centre of it all you’ll find Patrick Solich, a resident since birth and holder of the most important position…
This article is from Edition Nine of The Cynical, our free online magazine. Download the magazine here: ePub version (great for smart phone readers) PDF version “I was supposed to play with the primary school team and I was in the class below the rest of the boys but on the day of the…