I Hope People Will Think Very Carefully

Football's A Difficult Business And Aren't They Prima Donnas. But It's A Wonderful Game.

Experience Shows That Great Enterprises Seldom End With A Tidy And Satisfactory Flourish. Together, We Are Doing Our Best To Re-establish Peace And Civil Order In The Gulf Region, And To Help Those Members Of Civil And Ethnic Minorities Who Continue To Suffer Through No Fault Of Their Own. If We Succeed, Our Military Success Will Have Achieved Its True Objective.

What Were Once Only Hopes For The Future Have Now Come To Pass; It Is Almost Exactly 13 Years Since The Overwhelming Majority Of People In Ireland And Northern Ireland Voted In Favour Of The Agreement Signed On Good Friday 1998, Paving The Way For Northern Ireland To Become The Exciting And Inspirational Place That It Is Today.

It Has Turned Out To Be An Annus Horribilis.

The World Is Not The Most Pleasant Place. Eventually, Your Parents Leave You And Nobody Is Going To Go Out Of Their Way To Protect You Unconditionally. You Need To Learn To Stand Up For Yourself And What You Believe And Sometimes, Pardon My Language, Kick Some Ass.