Middlesbrough Football Club
Shayler is a supporter of Middlesbrough Football Club. It was hypothesised by the BBC that part of his reason for returning to the UK was to watch a home fixture against Tottenham Hotspur. In 2007 Channel 4 reported he claimed that his "channelling of the light" put Middlesbrough into the 2006 UEFA Cup Final. Both he and his former partner, Annie Machon, have repeatedly claimed that the mainstream British media has misreported their statements and judgments passed against them in an attempt to smear their reputation.
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“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.”
—“Jennie June” Croly 1829–1901, U.S. founder of the woman’s club movement, journalist, author, editor. F, Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly Mirror of Fashions, pp. 363-4 (December 1870)