IS IT SAFE to talk about football again?
Rather than being dragged into the ever-growing clamour for transfer news – fake or otherwise – that seems to have morphed into a dangerously vacuous cult.
Everywhere you looked this month, you were assailed by the wailing and gnashing of fans – vapid and superficial fans at any rate – who acted as if the world was ending simply because their club couldn’t borrow more money they hadn’t yet earned to purchase a reserve right-back simply because their cousin-in-law’s next door neighbour told them that their first choice right-back was keen for a move because he wasn’t earning enough money. Or something like that.
Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE reminisces on how he became an Aston Villa fan, and writes about the evolution of the historic club over the years
It’s tiring always being viewed as the ‘wrong sort of woman,’ writes JENNA, a woman who has exited the sex industry



