Unknowable/unknown (Gary Speed)
And you can't explain why doing the thing you love or are good at can feel like it's presenting an insurmountable challenge just to begin each day, despite knowing that it's the best feeling you have.
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Not football
A collection of 11 posts
Peter Mitchell & Tom Joy
"It's like going to see Gerry & The Pacemakers, or Marty Wilde at The Grand. How can you ever bear to see these people you used to adore in your youth? And it's the same with photography. This stuff is just shite. But that's the risk you're taking here. You don't want to be associated with me."
“Liverpool works on beauty & time” — Andrew Ellis
Andrew is the rare interviewee who will ask to go off the record so that he can say some people are "the nicest people in the entire world, they give me faith."
"This is the lows" — Stevie Ward, Leeds Rhinos
While surgery and rehabilitation had restored his shoulder, Stevie had developed another serious problem; a loss of identity and self-worth as he faced up to being a rugby league player who couldn't play rugby league.
“I always felt i had to do something more with my life” — Rav Matharu, clothsurgeon
Rav sounds wistful, as any sports mad Leeds lad might, who played football for Leeds United's youth teams when Leeds United were a club in the semi-finals of the Champions League, who eventually had to let that dream go.
“Why don’t we start at the beginning?” — Tim Sayer
The vase on the table by which we sit, Tim says, dates from 2200BC, and we think of every vase we've ever seen toppled by a placid cat's paw, and wonder how life here, with a placid cat named Otti prowling the rooms, can possibly be real.
“That’s bloody magic, isn’t it?” — Auriel Majumdar, business coach
"I call myself a business coach," says Auriel, as if she would rather just call herself Auriel. "I think there is a lot of rubbish talked about coaching both within the coaching world and outside it, and lots of claims made for it that may or may not be true."
“With what’s left of a memory of something” — Tony Fothergill, Ken Spelman Books
"The letter came to my flatmate who showed it to me, and I took it down to the shop and said, 'I'm not who you were expecting, and I'm not a woman, but would you give me an interview?' And that's what changed my life."
"Who do you think has been the greatest person in the world?" - John Poulson & City House
When Poulson was eventually jailed in 1974, for seven years, he was described by the judge as "an incalculably evil man". Poulson remained unrepentant. "I took on the world on its own terms, and no one can deny I once had it in my fist."
"Do you see what I see?" — Sheila Gaffney, Leeds College of Art
"With a lot of contemporary art, it's presented to us that people know what it's about, and then they tell us, and we go and have a look at it. It's not always that cut and dried."