Very true. The word soccer is rarely used these days, it's something you pesky Yanks call football to distinguish it from your version of football which isn't football at all just rugby with more padding. 

Going back a bit John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough is usually cited as our greatest General. 

Certainly great news about the King, reports of his demise are seriously exaggerated.

Nothing official yet about Prince Harry, but things are looking more hopeful for the new year. 

As I have probably mentioned in the past, Napoleon lost the big ones the ones that define a great general (Russia and Waterloo) and a leader who makes a habit of abandoning his men is no leader to me. Her deserted them in Africa and he deserted them in Russia. His death toll, both civilian and wartime, add up to over three million. Wellington hung soldiers who looted or raped or murdered women, Napoleon considered it the spoils of war. He had no empathy or consideration for his foreign troops, who he sacrificed without the slightest conscience. He had prisoners of war executed in their thousands, despite his word he wouldn't. In two of his famous winning battles he was saved by individual action from his other generals on the field, where under his command they might have lost but he takes the credit.

Undoubtedly true.

i’ve heard that too, I also hear that Mark is a secret Trump supporter

Dick Van Dyke turned 100 yesterday, it's impossible not to like Dick Van Dyke.

A British comedian from years ago died recently aged 99, Stanley Baxter. He was a big name in the 70s and 80s. Most people, including me, thought he died years ago.   

C'mon Major, you Brits have always been short a pin or two. Everybody knows that. 

Why don't Methodists approve of casual sex? Because it might lead to dancing.