Monthly Archives: April 2014
Barca needs to rediscover good football
Atletico de Madrid are through to the Champions League semi final because their defence held out brilliantly, they were magificent in attack, have a solid team spirit, and a manager that has motivated team and fans and is a good tactician. FC Barcelona by contrast lacked all these qualities and were justly beaten on the night. But this not an end of an era. Barca remains a team with quality players although psychologically it is finding it hard to not take its own past success for granted. It has a …
La reina Isabel y El papa Francisco
La reunión de la reina Isabel 11 con el Papa Francisco – oficialmente descrita como una visita de cortesía – pudo haber carecido de la cobertura mediatica y estatus político de la de Obama , pero no era menos cargada de simbolismo potente. Este fue el primer viaje al extranjero en más de dos años del monarca reinante que a pesar de su notable buena salud física y mental ha optado sabiamente por una agenda oficial menos agitada acorde con su edad – Ella cumplirá 88 en poco más …
When the Queen met Francis
Queen Elizabeth’s meeting with Pope Francis- officially described a courtesy visit- may have lacked the razzmatazz or political status of Obama’s but it was no less charged with potent symbolism. This was the first trip abroad in over two years by the reigning monarch that despite her remarkably enduring physical and mental good health has wisely opted for a less hectic official diary befitting her age- She is 88 in just over three weeks’ time. A rescheduled day trip to Italy-at the invitation of the anglophile Italian president-afforded an …
