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No More Heroes by Ian Rands
There was a time when you could saunter up to your local stadium and you’d know you’d have a fairly good chance of meeting one of your heroes. You might even have a chat with them. A photo. Definitely...
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We Didn’t Start The Poznan
To round off the season, how about a review of the season set to the tune of Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire? Yes, really. There’s a link below if you want to sing along. Enjoy. Tottenham riots,...
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The Continuing Adventures Of Captain Scott Parker
Chapter 50: In which our hero goes into battle, learns to work towards the Common Good and is dismayed by the hair styling choices of today’s youth. Flight Captain Scottisworth Parker sat in the...
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Tiki Taka? Schmicki Schmacka: The Hollow Soul Of Spanish Football
Ladies and gentleman, the inevitable backlash has begun. Judging by the criticisms and desperate (but ultimately futile) imploring to the footballing gods for Croatia to score on Monday on various...
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The Soothing Banality Of Football
This is not the post I had anticipated writing as my season opener. I had planned to kick it all off again with an essay entitled The Season After The Season Before in which I lamented the unfairness...
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Extinguishing The Olympic Myth
It’s because of football that the country’s economy has crashed. Because of football, the basic manners of this nation’s youth have receded into the whirring newsreels of the 1950s as children run...
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The Life And Times Of A Swansea City Ball Boy
This is a story for our times. Perhaps even a cautionary tale. It has its hero and it has its villain, its winner and its inevitable loser. Anybody who witnessed the events of the 23rd January 2013...
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If It’s Good Enough For Scholes, It’s Good Enough For Me
(or Never Say Never Again) I know, I know, I shouldn’t be here. I went out in a blaze of celebratory glory in May. A few parting shots dispensed, a few home truths told, a sprinkle of positivity to...
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Breaking Arsenal: The Walter Wenger Story
Breaking Bad. Everybody’s talking about it. What you may not know however, is that Vince Gilligan didn’t always have the modern fable of Mr Chips meeting Scarface in mind when he wrote it. Dispatches...
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The Black And White World Of England Captain Sol Campbell
Perhaps I’m not the best person to write this post because I clearly have a subjective stance with regard to Sol Campbell. After all, as a Spurs supporter, even after all these years, his defection to...
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