Saturday Night Fever

I thought I’d better get something on here today, as there’s a good chance that I won’t be able to get anything else on here for another three or four days or so. Under normal circumstances, I wouldn’t usually put anything on here on a Saturday evening, but it really has been quite a peculiar [...]

Tuxedo Time!

Good evening, boys and girls. How are you all getting on with the quiz? I’ve got no idea how difficult it is because I know all the answers, but I hope it’s given you all something to think about. Continuing my series of ripping off whatever everybody else in the media does at this time [...]

Quiz Time!

Well, you know how it is. You’re sitting around the office on the week between Christmas and the New Year with nothing to do, just wishing that someone would cobble together a ridiculously fiendish football quiz that you can just spend half an hour Googling the answers for… and here it is. Thirty questions, including [...]

Half-Term Report

All things considered, I feel as if I have a lot to catch up on. We’re at the midway point of the annual Christmas festival of football insanity, and I’ll come back to that at some point in the new year. I also intend to dish out some end of year awards at some point [...]

Ryman Slang

Having had approximately four hours sleep after a bellyful of cockerel and beef yesterday evening, what better way could I have spent Boxing Day afternoon than at The Victor Gladwish Stadium, Woodside Road, Worthing, for a derby match in the Ryman League Premier Division against Horsham? First up, a bit of history. I have a [...]

Winter Wonderland?

Well, good morning everyone and, if I may say so, a very merry Christmas to you all. You will have noted that I managed another correct prediction – Les Reed was, sensitively enough, sacked from the Charlton job on Christmas Eve, and Alan Pardew has been installed in his place. Too little, too late? We [...]

The Boot Room

Back at the start of the 1998-99 season, the DJ and broadcaster Danny Baker offered his listeners a bet. He was so outraged at bookmakers only offering 200/1 against Charlton Athletic winning the Premier League, that he offered anyone that sent him in £5 a Range Rover if Charlton did it. I don’t know what [...]

A Few Final Thoughts

Okay. It’s… ooh… five past four in the morning, and time for some final thoughts in the World Club Cup. Did the best team win? Well, the layout of it the competition didn’t really allow us to find out. Do Europe’s top sides simply not take it seriously? Are the Brazilian club sides really that [...]

Inside The Mixed Zone

Of course, there was no real need for me to be in the “Mixed Zone”, the area where the players meet the press after the match. I speak no Portuguese at all beyond “obrigado”, and my Spanish probably prevents me from doing a great deal more than asking Victor Valdes for a two beers and [...]

FC Barcelona vs SC Internacional

Right ho, then. Another truncated version of the “FIFA Anthem”, and we’re ready to go (and might I briefly register my surprise at the number of hacks that actually stood for it – it represents “all 207 member nations of the FIFA family”, apparently).
7.20: And we’re off. Barca must have the toss, because they’re [...]