riproaring

Half the season played, and the Uniteds of Newcastle and Manchester are level-pegging with 25 points apiece, thanks in part to the riproaring Newcastle win at St James’ Park in October, when Matty Longstaff scored the only goal of the game on his debut.

Watford won this fixture last year, a riproaring 2-1 victory sealed by Tom Cleverley’s stoppage-time strike which prompted Troy Deeney, scorer of his side’s other goal that night, to deliver his sermon about Arsenal and their issue with “cojones”.

Settle in for another riproaring night of athletics.

The Lionboy Trilogy: Zizou Corder This riproaring trilogy crams in everything – dystopian oppression, passionate conservationism, villainous relatives, shipboard circuses and a boy who can speak to cats, all set in a petrol-poor, corporation-controlled future.

This novel has pretensions, but they are overridden by Allende's riproaring girl's adventure story.