The gun looks puny compared to today’s mounted weaponry. But the 10 men of the Wilmington Light Infantry posed around it with jaunty pride. Without it, they would have been a makeshift contingent of civilians manning an ad hoc paramilitary unit. Even their gun wagon was repurposed, a dray from the Wilmington Transfer Company. This […]
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Mourinho v Wenger: Why the rivalry never died between football's elite bosses
Mourinho v Wenger That was Mourinho’s claim to myself and a small group of journalists lucky enough to share two absorbing hours of his time in a stifling room in Jakarta in the middle of the first pre-season tour of Mourinho’s return to Chelsea in 2013. “I have had a chance to meet him much, […]