Otherwise we risk extending football's fairly narrow span of credible literature into the territory of train-spotting manuals, bogus nostalgia, academic bores and holiday reminiscences.In the meantime, the classic set texts deserve another audience: Arthur Hopcraft's The Football Man; John Moynihan's The Soccer Syndrome; Eamon Dunphy's Only a Game?; and the novelist and screen-writer Alan Sharp's devastating 'A Dream of Perfection' essay in the anthology on Scottish football We'll Support You Ever More.* * *So, farewell then BrianJohnston.'Johnners', that was yournicknameThough 'Gonners' seems moreappropriate nowGone to that Great Cake Shopin the SkyYour profile and voice gave a new meaning to the phrase'toffee-nosed'I liked you, but just a little, notArlottPeter Corrigan is on holiday. The way things are going I don't know if he will be here for the European tie but despite it all we remain confident and highly optimistic that we will get our man.'Picking the right men is also an issue for the Glaswegians' caretaker manager, Frank Connor, as he prepares his team for tomorrow's tie. Mr Hannigan has a collection of hubcaps dislodged from cars, trucks and milk lorries after hitting the holes, which also rip tyres and destroy exhausts.Police officers privately praise the doughty campaigner's highlighting of potential hazards. To be sure, China's growth rate, currently running at an annual 14 per cent, seemed impressive, especially to Europeans deep in recession and reluctant to regard China as a less-developed country, but it should not have blinded us to what one sceptical China- watcher has described as the country's 'looming economic catastrophe'.How Russian officials came to deceive themselves was more understandable.

This year the Docklands airport was expected to handle 200,000 travellers, possibly half the level needed to break even.British Midland pulled out of London City in 1991. A career diplomat from the State Department, he is regarded in London as someone with a serious understanding of British and European affairs. 'We have been led to understand that he will stay for a year anyway,' a British source said. Each book took years to produce, with social life cut right down and money a regular problem Yet this is always what the Opies wanted to do. Although the outlet had not moved into profit, the company said sales were on a par with UK restaurant averages.More anecdotal evidence, however, comes from those at the front line. Alan Howard, in the National Theatre's rehearsed reading at the Lyceum, at least projected this Reform Club Achilles as viciously sharp as well as world-weary.Something of Barker's oblique comedy and social portraiture linger on in The Secret Life; but in his final play, His Majesty (1928), all that remains is the figure of the exiled hero.

The Major, too, from the sound of it.He: 'What was that? Sounded like a shot.'She: 'Probably was. If I didn't have an enormous amount of affinity for them it wouldn't be the club's fault. Solution (in a less civilised society): 'to sew up the wombs of all Sun-readers' wives' Not that that would be Wilson's solution, you understand. Oxford-educated Imran accused Ian Botham, Fred Trueman and Allan Lamb of lacking breeding after they alleged he cheated during his record-breaking international career. For 18 months Imran has been one of a group of Pakistanis accused of cheating, with Lamb a principal accuser.