Orwell, George

They explain why a player who has used the window Twitter opens on to his world to convey the impression of a rebellious, sushi eating, semi-intellectual, fans' champion bravely standing up to the club's somewhat parsimonious board as he quotes Friedrich Nietzsche, George Orwell, George Washington and Morrissey, is available on a free transfer.

Novelist Jean Rhys, who died in 1979, and Sonia Orwell, George Orwell's widow, who died a year later, have been observed in the distorting half-light of their declining days, when illness and alcoholism had served to dim the mind and obscure the spirit.