Online Articles, Essays and entertainments

Andre Agassi
An essay on the Agassi years and a review of Agassi's Autobiography, entitled Open.

Francisco de Goya
A short essay on Goya's Dark Paintings and the current exhibition of his etchings at manchester City Art Gallery.

Malcolm Muggeridge
Meetings with malcolm Muggeridge remembered and an essay on his writings.

Tennis for All? Yeah, right!
Experiences coaching tennis in Lancashire. And why 'tennis for all' will never be achieved by the LTA, nor those catching a ride on the lucrative gravy train.

Picasso
Challenging the spin attached to The Cult of Picasso and why his work is only 'great' if self interest is the ultimate goal.

Tracy Emin
Artistic bankruptcy worthy of Lehmann Brothers and the cultural abyss into which we are descending.

Tracey Emin Review in proper writing with real sentences and some full stops. At least one anyways

Holman Hunt
NOT the Damien Hirst of his time.

The Phoenix Club
The home of sentimental Northenness, which only exists in make-believe and the purpose of which appears to be to puff up the bank balances and fame-stock of the evermore puffed-up. The beer's so-so, the air is foul, but the real inhabitants (the ones who couldn't get past Showsec Security into Radio 1's Peter Kay book-promotion) are the salt of the earth.

Annabel Croft
Rapunzel back in the day...when she had meat on the bone.

Jose de Ribera
'Do you have the meausure of that which lies before you?'
He sure do. A verritable Shakespeare for the brush world.

Francis Bacon
An impressionist's essay on Bacon's work: Bacon not Stirred

Van Dyck
Van Dyck exhibition

The Royal Exchange Theatre
Still one of the best theatre spaces in the country and a jewel in manchester's crown at any time o' day.

Old Trafford
On the red rooftops of Mancunia


Tennis for All

Tennis Book: The Forehand

Tennis Coaching Book
The Forehand: Chapter 1

Tennis Coaching Book
The Forehand: Chapter 2

Tennis Coaching Book
The Forehand: Chapter 3

The Service

Tennis Coaching Book
The Serve: Chapter 1

Tennis Coaching Book
The Serve: Chapter 2

Tennis Articles

The One Handed Backhand: 1

The One Handed Backhand: 2

The One Handed Backhand: 3

The One Handed Backhand: 4

The One Handed Backhand: 5

Elena Dementieva

Serena Williams Forehand

Venus and Serena Williams Service

Juan Carlos Ferrero

Mary Joe Fernandez

Andy Roddick

Lancashire Tennis