Absolute Shambles

'Religiously, it is said that God created man. I am only a guide. I allow others to express what they have in them. I have not created anything. I am a facilitator of what is beautiful in man.'-  Arsène Wenger, in an interview with l'Equipe , published 7 November 2015 The moment was surreal. I thought my phone had been hacked, to be quite honest. Everyone knew that it was going to happen at some point, but for it to finally occur on 20 April 2018 still created a seismic blast that rippled across all the media outlets. Montages were rapidly broadcast, journalists voiced their opinion on the matter at hand, and lent their expertise on what the future held. It was a time for nostalgia, to look back at the times that this one individual had given us over the years, and also one to look ahead to the future, that unknown menace that plagues the decision making process. All everyone knows is that it happened... Arsène Wenger announced he would step down as Arsenal manager at the

'The biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this; By the grace of God, America won the Cold War'- George H.W. Bush in his State of the Union address, 28 January 1992 Last week I wrote on how  my ordeal came to and end , yet in a way I hoped that it would have gone on for maybe a while longer. It's not just because I enjoyed having the house to myself, but that the post for this week would have been perfect for last week. Yet it is still relevant, and it will be relevant for many more weeks to come, as the events in Syria over the last week or so send shockwaves around the globe. The war of words before, during and after the events on 14 April are more or less described below, and are unlikely to stop for a considerable period of time. Diplomacy sure is a bitch, isn't it? Hug it out? Syria is no stranger to the likes of Britain, France and the United States. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War (1914-1918

'Justice delayed is justice denied'- William E. Gladstone I am not a religious man, yet I am certainly not a militant atheist like Richard 'If you like God, you're stupid' Dawkins. Belief/faith in some sort of deity is comforting for some, and there are a large number of people who believe in the concept of 'divine intervention'. This can be defined as a deity, whether through the power of prayer or perhaps it being a slow day in the afterlife, takes the conscious decision to intervene in our mortal realm and influence a certain chain of events. Miracles are often categorised as the result of divine intervention, and on an overcast 29 March, on the steps outside of St Paul's Cathedral in London, a deity may have given me a helping hand. It certainly isn't on the scale of Jesus walking on water or God sending the Ten Plagues onto Egypt, but in that very moment of time it felt as if 'divine intervention' had just occurred. My mother felt ch