“Most strikers playing in the Premier League regularly are aged around ...” — Patrick Bamford Quote

Most strikers playing in the Premier League regularly are aged around 23 or 24.

Nobody in the footballing world got here by having it handed to them.

It's about getting experience and developing. The best way to do that is to go out on loan to play first-team football.

I've always believed that when I play up front and once I've scored, then I keep scoring.

Football is generally a working-class sport, and because of the fact I went to private school and was brought up slightly differently, people think that makes me a different person.

The appearance of aged persons is too well known to make detailed description necessary. The skin of the face is dry and wrinkled and generally pale. The hairs on the head and the body are white. The back is bent, and the gait is slow and laborious, whilst the memory is weak. Such are the most familiar traits of old age.

You don't make a decision about being a writer. There was a point, aged 21, when it became clear that this is who I am. The choice is how good you are going to be at it and how hard you are going to work.

We know we are entering a period of transformation in aged care.

Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house.