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“... but the victorious soldiers had been roused. Generals such as Oliver Cromwell and his son-in-law Henry Ireton combined a Bible-grounded vengeance against Charles as a ‘man of blood’ with the more practical realisation that a stricken king would always try to win back power. Negotiations, they thought, had to stop. Claiming necessity and the ‘safety of ...”

“... fancy-dan Continental football, and the story of Arsenal’s frailty reads like the plot of Henry V, with Arsène as the dauphin at Agincourt. The French (Arsenal) hurl themselves pointlessly at the heroic English defence (Chelsea, Man U, Stoke) and then, once they’re exhausted, the enemy’s archers (in this case, Didier Drogba) pick them ...”