If you are a compulsive reader of the obituary notices, now and then you

come across a name that makes you sit up and say: “Good Lord! Didn’t he/she

die ages ago?” Thus with Alicia Markova tha great ballerina, who had just

died at age 94. Lovely obit in the Telegraph.

I did not know that among her other accomplishments & enthusiasms, Markova

was an Arsenal supporter. Well, every rose has a thorn…