Start Lobbying Now!

Two posts in one evening! Aren’t you lucky? Actually, don’t answer that. Before I say anything else, I’ll just take a second to mention the little music doohickey on the right of the page – click the “play” button and it will play a selection of funky choons! How exciting! Or don’t. It’s entirely up [...]

Replay If We Want To

I’d thought that I must have covered the issue of FA Cup replays before, but recent comments in the press by Premiership managers have forced my hand again. You know how it is: I just can’t resist it. The latest comments have come from Arsene Wenger and Glenn Roeder, both of whom are rather of [...]

Greetings, Hawkfrenz!

Greetings Hawkfrenz, indeed. Many years ago, a very good friend of mine went to see the 70’s space rockers Hawkwind at The St Albans Arena. Afterwards (and quite possibly under the influence of some industrial strength psychedelic drugs), he signed up for their newsletter and, this being a more innocent age (when newsletters did such [...]

Welsh Rare Bits

I knew that I should have taken an hour out last night to put something up on here, because I’ve now got enough material to last me for the whole of this week. So, coming up this week: another report from AFC Wimbledon, who provided us with another splendid afternoon’s entertainment on Saturday afternoon against [...]

The Daily Match (Part 6)

I’ve had an exceptionally busy week, so there’ll be a full round-up on here tomorrow, along with a look back at Wimbledon’s Ryman League match against Billericay Town. No time for that this evening, though, so you’ll have to make do with Manchester United getting walloped by Crystal Palace in 1972 – Commentary by Brian [...]

Saturday Morning Fever

Good morning! I have to work this morning, then it’s off to AFC Wimbledon vs Billericay Town this afternoon. First up, apologies to anyone that has ended up here looking for TV theme tunes – we’re having a small problem with our domain (the biannual “forgetting to renew our domain name”, in case you were [...]

The Daily Match (Part 5)

Tonight, we have the 1971 Scottish Cup Final Replay between Celtic and Rangers. Note the sheer volume of the crowd – 120,000 had been present at the first match, and 103,000 were present for this one.

Championship Managers

Now that all of the hullabaloo surrounding this week’s Champions League matches has died down (and aren’t the months of January, with just the league and FA Cup to distract us, bliss, might I add?), it’s time to take one of my periodic looks down the football food chain at one of the other [...]

The Daily Match (Part 4)

It’s the opening day of the 1983/84 season, and “Match Of The Day” is kicking off with a Midlands derby from Villa Park between Aston Villa and West Bromwich Albion. For those of you from abroad that have always wondered what he sounds like, the commentator is John Motson and, yes, that is the Tottenham [...]

The Crushinators

How much has European football learnt over the last eighteen years or so? It is, I rather think, a fair question because, on the evidence presented before us last night during Manchester United’s extraordinary Champions League match against Lille, the only rational answer that I can think of is: “not very much, no”. Fences around [...]